Do you remember that I sort of accidentally bought a load of voile panels a few years back? And I also found a pattern for knitting scrubbies with tulle? And I have been browsing some of the awesome free patterns from Red Heart, including one for a back scrubby? I thought, I can just cut strips from the voile panel and knit it up like the pattern says. I swear, those three words - I can just - get me into more trouble than a cat. So I cut a few strips, knotted them together, started knitting - and it was a fail. The texture was fine, I'm sure it would have made a lovely scrubby if the fabric wasn't fraying like it had been promised a bonus. I still haven't got rid of all the tiny threads and I only knitted a couple of rows. Some of the scrubby yarn from Red Heart is on Amazon, but at the best you are looking at nearly £20 for the yarn to make the back scrubby. If I get some yarn that looks like a copy (woolcraft scrubby yarn on eBay) then I am still looking at around £12. I can buy a ready made one for £1.99.
I think today is a 'catching up on knitting already started' day.
Maybe you just need to hem the strips of voile, first? You can just fold in the strips along their length, run a line of straight stitching in the machine, before tying the lengths together and knitting. It should keep the strips from fraying.
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