So, today was Mama-san day at my house. Mama-san day is the day I pay a Japanese woman (Mama-san) to come over and do my dishes and various other chores. Among those, she mops my floor. Now I don’t know if you remember the cover I made for my swiffer wet-jet two and a half years ago, but it’s seen better days.
Whoa! Look at that. There’s even a seam held together with a safety pin, niiiice. Well, as I watched my Mama-san struggle to keep my old, floppy, pinned-together cover on the mop today as she mopped, I finally succumbed to shame and decided to make a new one.
See?
Niiiiice. Now there’s a cover that will really stay on, scrub, and probably not look filthy after a single use. The pattern is the “biffer shrug” from Gherkin’s Bucket (home of the crochet dish sponges!) – free, crocheted, and only one ball of kitchen cotton. It even looks nice on the mop, as seen in this washed-out, flash photographed picture!
Now I can watch my Mama-san mop without shame. Except about the fact that I’m paying someone to clean my house, hahahahahaha.
I would love a mama-san day. Your biffer shrug looks like it would do some serious cleaning. Hmmm, I should get a swiffer just so I can make one. Haha.
I wish I had a Mama-san day, too! Unfortunately, I don’t have a swiffer, but a sponge mop (one with rollers that squeeze all the water out of the sponge). It would be awesome if I could crochet something for that though.. I hate having to buy a new sponge every other month!
The link above for biffer shrug won’t allow me access. Do you know of another way to get that pattern?
The pattern is available on her Ravelry page
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/crochet-biffer-shrug