Soap savers
One of the soaps I've been using lately is a soap-made-of-many-tiny-inset-soaps, and as it got close to being used up, it sort of fell apart. Enter the crocheted soap saver, friend to frugal soap users everywhere!
So far I'm using the one on the left. It was a 20-minute off-the-cuff pattern, and it needs some refinement. It's honestly a bit too big! If I had it to do over again, I'd make it about 1/2 to 2/3rds that size (like the double-crochet version on the right), but I think the single crochet is the way to go. (We'll see how I like the double-crochet version.) Weirdly enough, I basically end up using the soap saver as if it were a bar of soap itself -- it certainly lathers like one. But hopefully I won't end up losing soap shards down my drain with it!
I have quite a bit more cotton in my stash, so I'll probably keep making these. If I ever find The Perfect Soap Saver Pattern, I'll post it. :)
