Tawashi Town March 31, 2008
Won’t you take me to…. Tawashi Town!!
i just discovered what a tawashi is… It is a japanese knit or crochetes scrubber. Powered by a book from kinokuniya called “Magic Scrubbers Part 8″, I whipped up a number of little crocheted scrubbies and dusters.
A baby seal. Believe it or not the pattern gives him x’s for eyes – that wasn’t my idea
For dusting off my TV screen
For dusting off my keyboard
After I started, I discovered the Ravelry group Tawashi Town, and through it that many japanese tawashi are made with an antibacterial acrylic yarn. I snapped some up on etsy and tried it out:
This little fella lives by my sink and does a great job helping me wash dishes!
If you want to give it a try I’ve found are few freely available charted Japanese tawashi patterns:
And if you are looking for something in english, try:
- Spiral Scrubbie
and a knitted version at this direct PDF download, or here.
These are so adorable and practical! Thanks for the scrubbie PDF for those of us who are crochet-impaired.
How fun! I’ll need to make a few of these to use up some acrylic yarn.
Hello Karrie,
I had the pattern for the baby seal twashi.. I made a few of them and of course they are no longer useable. As for the pattern its been misplaced and when I came across your site I saw him. I got theseal pattern on line Perriots I believe as a Free down load in 1997-8? Apparently they use to be all free on theJapanses sites And now they sell them in books. Doesn\\\’t do me a world of good as I am in Canada. Could You please be so generous and send me the pattern to the baby seal Twashi, I would be truly gratelful
Sexy_MinnieMouse