Recycled Dish Scrubbies

I just love a project that uses everyday items and recycles them into something else that is very useful.  I have seen these dish scrubbies all over the internet and even made some following tutorials by using cotton fabric and tulle.  I love them!!  However, the tulle seems to wear quickly.  My mom suggested using produce bags - you know, the plastic mesh ones that oranges, grapefruit, and apparently Babybel Cheese comes in 😎.

I took her suggestion to heart and decided that rather than using cotton fabric, I would use terrycloth and make the scrubbies more durable and more, well, dishcloth-like.

I found these washcloths at Wal-Mart.  They were 18 in a pack for $3.97.  Not a bad deal if I do say so myself.  Plus I can use the leftovers as cleaning rags.  

I made some of these for a friend of mine and she uses them to scrub her bathroom, so they are really versatile 😉.

First I prepped the mesh bags by cutting the metal ends off the Babybel bag and cutting the citrus bags even.  Then I trimmed the bags into *roughly* 5" squares (once you cut one of these bags, you'll understand why I say roughly 😟)

Next I trimmed some of the washcloths into 5" squares.  Then I tried two different ways of sewing the scrubbies together.  For the first way, I laid down one piece of washcloth, two layers of the plastic mesh, and another layer of washcloth.  

Kind of like a mesh sandwich 😂

**Note - When I put the two mesh squares down, I turn one of them.  It helps give it a little more scrub power.  

Then I stitched around the entire square leaving an opening for turning.

Turn the whole thing right side out thru the opening

then top stitch around the whole thing, stitching the opening closed

Voila!  One dish scrubbie finished!

 The second way of making one is very similar to the first.  This time I stacked two washcloth squares with two mesh squares on top.  Then I used wonder clips and clipped the stack together

Then I zigzagged around all the edges.

These whip up very quickly! I made several in a very short amount of time.

 I like the first method better - I think they look more finished, but either method works.  I guess its just a matter of personal preference.

Hope this tutorial is helpful to anyone who wants to make some recycled dish scrubbies!