Monday, January 12, 2009

Magic Scrubber Book 9

This is book 9 of the Magic Scrubber Series. I found it at my local Japanese bookseller. This is ISBN978-4-8247-6460-4. I think that if you do a search for it, you use the numbers 4834764604. Searching by ISBN is tricky. I never seem to get it right, but people always ask for the numbers so there they are!

Magic Scrubber Book 9

I learned recently that these scrubbers are made from acrylic yarn. I found that out by trial and error, but there was an article and a pattern written about these useful little things in the latest issue of Craft magazine. According to the article, (what I remember.. I read it yesterday at the bookstore) these qualify as eco-crafts because they are effective without the use of soaps or cleaning chemicals. Also, they are durable and reuseable.

Here are the ones I've made recently:
Magic Scrubbers

In this book there are about as many knit patterns as crochet:
Magic Scrubber Book 9

The ones on the right below appear to have a soft sponge inside. I've been wanting to learn this kind of knitting:
Magic Scrubber Book 9

Here are knit houses and funny crocheted dusting girls:
Magic Scrubber Book 9

Magic Scrubber Book 9

Here are hears and stars:
Magic Scrubber Book 9


This book also has a bottle scrubber, some cute animal faces, simple fruits, and a colorful crocheted mitten scrubber and a glove scrubber.

Finally... This is the advertisement at the end of the booklet for the yarn they are using. I can't read any of this, but maybe this is useful to someone! This same ad is in all of my magic scrubber pattern books.

Magic Scrubber Book 9


Note: I edited this post from an earlier version where I'd included a photo of one of the patterns. I've since had a crisis of conscience about copyright and have deleted that photo.

7 comments:

  1. Looks like a stunning book but I'm not sure I could bring myself to use the scrubbers, they're far too pretty!

    Hen x

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  2. Hen- They work up in a flash and the yarn is the really cheap stuff. They also launder well.

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  3. You are fortunate to have access to such wonderful resources. I'm still drooling over the issue of Cotton Time that you posted back in August. Very nice.

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  4. Boy I have some awful scratchy acrylic that would be great to crochet into dish scrubbers...

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  5. I am pretty sure the advertisement is for the antibacterial acrylic yarn. There is a group on Ravelry called Tawashi Town (you would LOVE it). They have CALs and LOTS of tips on tawashi making. :) I am on ravelry as lvg4him. :) The group has links to etsy stores that sell the books as well as the yarn. :) And yes, tawashis are totally best in acrylic yarn, especially those yarns you find in the thrift stores from the 1970's. SOOOO scratchy! I love tawashis and make a LOT of them. I wish I had the money for a Japanese book, but alas, I just have to do the free patterns available (linked from ravelry).

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  6. Yeah I am pretty sure thats the same yarn I have seen for sale on Ebay. Pretty good prices from what I have seen. Does this book have diagrams/charts to crochet from? I am new to the whole Japanese craft thing!

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  7. Barbara Lou- This book and the other ones like it have detailed charts. I mostly understand the charts, but sometimes I come across something complicated that I just can't figure out. There are many patterns in these Magic Scrubber books, so there is bound to be something you can read.

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