Doing Up The Frugal Kitchen


Does your kitchen need perking up? Go through your stash, grab a hook and needles and begin to quickly add some bright and fanciful touches. Think about what you might do with jars, containers, lids. You can decorate with hangings, rugs, placemats, curtains, holders for anything, handy containers, make attractive vase covers, sauce bottle covers, appliance covers, the ever handy potholders, teatowel toppers, dishcloths, scrubbies, aprons, kitchen slippers, even knit/crochet flowers and fruit. I've done some searching for you to links for free patterns. These will get your wool balls bouncing.

Rolling pin, dress and playsuit wall ornaments - you'll want to make these straight away. Photos.

Crochet dress for dawn detergent - cute in rosepink. Photo.

Kitchen bloomers to hang up - variegated cotton with pale blue bows. Photo.

An empty raisin can becomes a sunflower container - makes you feel happy just looking at it. Photo.

Pencil cup from a can - another recycled can put to use. Photo.

Tabasco man - you just have to have a fiesta man for your hot sauce bottle. The first pattern is knit, the second crochet. No photos but easy to imagine.

Plastic carrybag to crochet - do you have 100 grocery bags sitting around? This is a sturdy design and will spark you off into more plastic bag crochet/knit. No photo.

Potholders - watermelon, hillbilly, birthday cake, shamrock and panties. No photos.

Knitted dishcloth - diagonal ribs. Photo.

Knitted silverware holder - handy indeed. Photo.

Handsome mat crocheted with 4 strands of yarn together - use this for those tired feet at the kitchen sink. Photo.

Curtain topper - lovely and airy crochet. Photo.

Chenille cushion - so easy, so plush in wonderful chenille. If you've got a kitchen chair to relax in while the apple pie is baking, then this is the sort of cushion to to place behind that aching back. Photo.

Heart coasters - easy and lovely crochet design so make a stack of them. Photo.

Double thick scrubbie - a useful, really thick wad. Photo.

Roses - crochet a bunch of them. Photo.

Sweet William flower - sew this onto a tablecloth, runner or teatowel. Photo.

Long stemmed red rose - even if you make just one, you'll love it. Photo.

Assortment of flowers and leaves - sweet collection to pick from and you could attach them to a calico or net curtain. Photo.

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