Crochet Flower Dish Scrubbies Free Pattern With Green Scrubby Center & Cream Petals

Kitchen sinks look brighter when a crochet flower dish scrubbie with a forest green centre and cream petals sits beside the soap. Daisy style dish scrubbies in green and cream bundle well with a bar of soap as a housewarming gift for anyone who loves a tidy counter.

Rounds build fast on this crochet flower dish scrubbie, and the color change into cream is where it suddenly looks like a flower. Petals come last. Shaping each one gives you ten tiny finishes, so the flower dish scrubbie keeps rewarding you right up to the final stitch. Satisfying to end.

Crochet Flower Dish Scrubbie

Two identical flat circles worked in scrubby yarn get sandwiched together and joined through their edges to make this crochet flower dish scrubbie, which is what gives it its scrubbing texture on both sides with a clean flower shape on the outside. Nine cream cotton petals ring the green center, each one built from a chain arch and three descending stitches that taper down to a slip stitch. Mine uses dark forest green for the scrubby center and off white cotton for the petal border, and the finished piece lies flat enough to tuck under a soap bar or stack with others in a gift set.

Quick Facts

• Difficulty: Beginner
• Time: In my experience around thirty to forty five minutes per scrubbie, including both circles and the petal round
• Finished size: Palm sized, approximately the diameter of a standard dish sponge

Customization Ideas

• Swap the green scrubby center for any colour that suits your kitchen.
• Use a pale yellow cotton for the petals instead of cream to make a sunflower version.
• Make a set of three in different center colours with the same cream border for a coordinated kitchen gift.
• Use a lighter cotton for the petals if you want more drape in the flower shape.
• Work one circle only for a flat single layer scrubbie, skipping the sandwich construction.

Materials and Tools

• Green scrubby sparkle yarn for the two center circles
• Off white or cream worsted weight cotton yarn for the petals
• Crochet hook, size H, 5.0 mm
• Scissors
• Darning needle
• Stitch marker

Abbreviations

• ch: chain
• sl st: slip stitch
• sc: single crochet
• sc inc: single crochet increase, meaning 2 sc in the same stitch
• dc: double crochet
• tc: treble crochet

The Pattern

Green Center Circle (Make 2)

• Make a slip knot with the green scrubby yarn, chain 4, then sl st into the first chain to form a ring.
• Work 6 sc directly into the center of the ring, then pull the starting tail tight to close the ring. Sl st on top of the first sc of the round [6 sts].
• Round 2: chain 1, place a stitch marker on top of the first sc, then work 1 sc inc in every stitch all the way around. Sl st on top of the first sc to close the round [12 sts]. The stitch marker stops you from losing your starting point in the scrubby texture, which can make individual stitches hard to see.
• Round 3: chain 1, work 1 sc inc in the first stitch, then 1 sc in the next stitch. Repeat the sequence of sc inc then 1 sc five more times around. Sl st on top of the first sc [18 sts].
• Round 4: sl st on top of the first sc, chain 1, work 1 sc inc in the first stitch, then 1 sc in each of the next 2 stitches. Repeat the sequence of sc inc then 2 sc five more times around [24 sts].
• Round 5: sl st on top of the first sc, chain 1, work 1 sc inc in the first stitch, then 1 sc in each of the next 3 stitches. Repeat the sequence of sc inc then 3 sc five more times around [30 sts].
• Round 6: sl st on top of the first sc, chain 1, work 1 sc inc in the first stitch, then 1 sc in each of the next 4 stitches. Repeat the sequence of sc inc then 4 sc five more times around. Sl st on top of the first sc [36 sts].
• Chain 1, pull up a long loop, cut the yarn, and tug the end through to secure. Weave in all loose tails on the back side using the darning needle.
• Repeat all steps to make a second identical green circle.

Joining and Petal Border (Cream Cotton Yarn)

• Place both completed green circles together back to back so the right sides face outward on both sides.
• Make a slip knot with the cream cotton yarn. Insert your hook through any edge stitch, making sure the hook passes through both green layers at once, and attach the yarn with a sl st. Every stitch from this point works through both layers to join and border them simultaneously.
• First petal: chain 3, work 1 tc in each of the next 2 stitches, work 1 dc in the next stitch, then work 1 sl st in the following stitch. One cream petal is now complete and should sit as a small rounded arch above the green edge.
• Repeat the petal sequence of chain 3, 2 tc, 1 dc, 1 sl st eight more times around the full border until all 9 petals are complete. On mine the petals sit evenly spaced all the way around with no gaps between them.
• After the final petal, chain 1, pull the yarn up, cut it, and tug the end through to secure. Weave in the final cotton tail with the darning needle.

Tips

• Count your stitches after every round on the green circles. Scrubby yarn obscures the stitch legs and it is easy to miss one increase without realising.
• Hold the two circles firmly together when you begin the joining round. Letting them shift even slightly misaligns the edge stitches and the petals come out uneven.
• Work the tc stitches loosely so the petal arches curve outward rather than pulling flat. Tight trebles collapse the petal shape.

Yarn Substitution

The green center must use scrubby or exfoliating yarn to do its actual job on dishes. Any cotton scrubby yarn in a worsted or bulky weight works at this hook size. The cream petal border needs smooth cotton so the petals sit cleanly. Avoid acrylic for the border since it does not hold up to hot water and dish soap the way cotton does.

FAQ

Do the two green circles need to be identical? Yes, because the petals join them by working through matching edge stitches on both layers at once. If the circles are different sizes the edges will not line up and the petals will pull to one side.

Can I use a different hook size? The H hook balances the two yarn weights here. Going down a size tightens the green circles and makes joining harder; going up loosens the petal border more than you want. If you change hook size, use the same size for both yarn types.

How do I wash the finished scrubbie? Toss it in a mesh laundry bag and machine wash on a warm cycle. Cotton and scrubby yarn both hold up well to repeated washing, which is part of why this is worth making.

My petals are different sizes. What went wrong? Each petal uses exactly the same stitch count, so uneven petals usually come from inconsistent tension on the chain 3 arch. Try to pull each starting chain to the same height before working the tc stitches.