#crochet bath

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Variegated yarn is pretty sexy.

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Fellas my head is POUNDING but I have to go to college for 8 hours tomorrow this is so untubular

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Transgender — A gender identity where one identifies with a gender outside of the one they were assigned at birth.

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Guess who got cranberry juice spilled on them and had to get an emergency sink bath

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bath pouf

some old pics of the second bath pouf I ever made, plus scroll down farther to see the beginning of another one that I hope will come out better... will work on it some more one day.

Made using nylon thread; the first time I tried making a bath pouf I used cotton thread, but found that the whole thing was no better for making soap suds than a wadded-up washcloth would be. (cotton absorbs water, as I expect other natural fiber threads and yarns would) I like the nylon better - though it has a less-soft surface texture, I figure that would probably be better for exfoliation anyway. (I also use nylon thread when I make mesh covers for soap bars; if anyone cares I may post pics of that one day) (also, cotton thread tends to wear out faster than the nylon)

Next is wip photos of the way I started my next bath pouf (my third) which is not yet finished ...perhaps some day I may make an actual pattern, but for now if anyone wants to try making one this way you can try following the pics. Once you get the main central bit done you just keep going around and around the edges until the pouf is as big as you want it to be, or you run out of thread. I find a bath pouf of the size pictured above uses something around 1.5-1.75 spools of (150 yd / 137m) nylon upholstery thread. (less than 2 full 150-yard spools)

After making an initial long loop of chain stitches and going around it with single crochet, I then used decreasing numbers of single crochet stitches for each row going "inwards" making an inner curve corkscrewing around, and then after only a few rows inwards I lined up the big loop into a double row looping back on itself at either end, with subsequent rows joining them together on the inner side, then continued to decrease inwards until the rows became short enough to almost join all up in the center.

Then I cut the thread off with a long tail, which I used to sew through the middle and secure the entire corkscrew shape in ball form. Also note that I looped a contrasting bit of thread onto one end to mark it.

Then the last step is to join the thread from the spool onto the outer edge of the central ball, near where it was marked at one end, and then stitch all around down one side of the double row, and then all the way around the other back up; this design allows for continuous stitching all around, but I do recommend turning and changing direction every few rows because the way the crochet goes around, if the direction is the same every row, it can tend to try to curl up on you instead of sticking out straight from the center. After a couple rows of single crochet going outwards (or double crochet, I prefer starting with a couple of double crochet for every single crochet from the center ball) ...then you start making loops of chain stitches; the first row of these can join by slip stitch or single crochet to the previous row; every row of chain stitch loops after that, you join the points of the loops with slip stitch to the middle of a loop in the previous row, in this way you build up a mesh (mesh not pictured, but the start of the first row of chain loops is shown in the last pics below; also see the previous finished pouf at the very top of this post that has white thread in the center and the dark blue on the outside)

As you go outward, you gradually increase the number of chain stitches in each loop so that outer rows will be increased in size from the inner ones. The exact numbers can be based on size of thread, size of crochet hook, style of crochet (I tend to pull my stitches tight even if I try not to) and how fluffy you want the finished pouf to be; the important thing is that if you want the pouf to be of any use in working up suds from your soap, you want a mesh that is fairly open and airy.

I started making these long before I ever heard of anyone else making their own crochet bath poufs, so my design is original and not based on or even informed by that of anyone else, but I wouldn't be surprised if some other people have come up with a similar way of going about it. My first attempt ended up with more stitches in the center, having been made of rows that were gathered into the center instead of the way shown above; I didn't like that because it was too dense in the middle which is not good for making suds, especially when it was made with cotton thread which soaked up too much water and acted too much like a wadded washcloth. I also don't like for a bath pouf to be gathered in the middle instead of made with decreasing rows because I dislike it when the thing shifts and goes lopsided if one side accidentally gets pulled out, like commercial bath poufs made from lightweight mesh that is just gathered and tied in the middle. I also like it when I can just crochet rows around one way and back the other, so that's why I start with one big loop that can be twisted around into a ball so that at either end it loops back on itself instead of having distinct ends at either...end.

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It's so cruel that bath and crochet do not mix -_-

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Trip to the city today... Might be able to buy some more stuff for cross stitching :3

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just finished my first rag rug!!!!

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I am Bored Out Of My Mind™ so I'm sharing what's probably going to kill me today ✨

Here's my laminar chamber, where I've spent most of my days since December of 2022.

I'm currently harvesting trying to harvest my MDA cells for my research (for my master's thesis) and my trypsin is not working and they're not coming off the wells ✨

It's been almost 2 hours and I doubt they're gonna be viable for flow cytometry tomorrow, as trypsin-steeped as they are.

I had a test in the morning so I skipped breakfast in order to get to the lab on time. I didn't drink coffee. The laminar's noise is starting to give me a headache. The cat sticker represents my state of mind, but if we wait long enough, perhaps my body too?

I know nobody cares but I will update - to preserve my sanity by taking breaks from trying to coax the cells out of their wells by a combination of tapping the plastic, murmuring encouraging words and crying softly.

P.S. If you ever hear it's a good idea to work on cells for your graduate work, no you didn't.