Wednesday, March 5, 2014

RECYCLED SODA BOTTLE SPRINKLER











This spinkler is a simple recycle project that can be a lawn spinkler or just a device that the kids can use to get wet!
Materials:
1 Empty 24oz soda bottle
1 Plastic coat hanger with or without hook
2 Large rubber bands
1 Hose end replacement kit 5/8"($1.67 at Lowes)
1 Rubber washer for swivel hose end
Mighty Putty
Tools:
Drill & bits
Steps:
1. The most difficult part of this project is adapting the water hose to the soda bottle. I made 2 different adapter, one way was to cut the swivel end of an old water hose off keeping about 4" of hose and attach another swivel end to the short hose(see photo below). The other way is to drill a 3/4" hole in the soda bottle cap and insert the stem of a hose end replacement kit into the hole in the bottle cap and apply mighty putty around cap and stem to secure(see photo below).
2. Attach soda bottle to plastic hanger with rubber bands as in photo(tie bands to hanger with half hitch).
3. Drill 1/16" holes in the top & sides of the soda bottle, use a pattern that will give you the most spray coverage.
4. Attach adapter to bottle. With the hose type adapter you will need to add 1 extra rubber washer inside the swivel before screwing onto the bottle because the threads are different and only screw on part way. The best adapter is the second one where the cap fits nicely onto the bottle.
5. Attach water hose and you have a recycled bottle sprinkler.
Two adapters and hose end replacemant kit

Saturday, March 1, 2014

SHOWER PUFF BALL

A woman that did one of my hair scrunchies actually counted the # of stitches needed to finish one, I won’t tell you how many just know there are a lot. I know the scrunchies have lots of stitches it makes them puff up when in your hair. Here we go again this shower ball also has to scrunch up so there are lots of stitches. The plus side, it is easy to make.


SHOWER PUFF BALL
Materials: Red Heart Plush yarn, size G crochet hook, darning needle
Directions:
Ch 4 join to form a ring.
Row 1: ch3, 28 dc in ring join.
Row 2: ch3, 4dc in same stitch, 5 dc in each stitch join.
Row 3: ch3, 3dc in same stitch, 4dc in each stitch join, fasten off weave in ends.

Handle: With double strands of yarn ch25 attach to ball fasten off weave in ends.