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GOIn my last reel I showed y’all how to process those green luffas off the vine 🧽
But here’s how to actually sew them into homemade sponges!! 🪡👩🏻🌾
You can easily just slice the luffa into round sponges but I also like to make the rectangular sponges for dishes and cleaning etc!
- The first step is to cut your luffa to size
- Then cut a slit down one of the openings to reveal the middle of the sponge
- Definitely get all the seeds out and then cut the center sponge out, don’t get to close to the outer sponge or it will create a hole (save the black seeds to grow more luffas!!)
- Fold and trim your luffa into a rectangle or square of your liking
- Next just make a knot in your string and start in one corner and sew all the way around your sponge. Pull through from the front to the back, and then start at the front again, over and over, to make your stitches hold.
- The last step is to make a small knot or loop around your last stitch to secure it, and then pull your excess string through the stitched sponge section to tuck it in. And cut off the excess!
Now you can clean and wash without chemicals/plastics and with something you’ve grown and made yourself!!! 🧽
#urbanhomestead #backyardgarden #growyourown
#organicsponge #sewingluffasponges
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