Tuesday Tips and Tricks: Bath Mitt

Have you ever taken a shower and while soaping up you dropped the bar of soap in the bottom of the tub?  You picked up the soap and soaped up again and this time dropped the brand new bar of soap on your little toe.  Ouch!  OUCH!  So very annoying.  I got sick of that happening on a regular basis.  Since I could not figure out how to keep that from happening, I decided to make a bath mitt.  Of sorts.

This is what I did:  Took a nice large thick washcloth.  Folded it in half horizontally then in half again so that there is a fold along one edge and along the bottom.  Along the other side are four edges.  Took it to the sewing machine and stitched up the side with all the edges then stitched up the side with the folds, making sure both folds were stitched.

This is what is looks like:

You can see that there is a fold at the bottom and not fold at the top.  You can slip your hand inside entirely, OR you can slip your hand inside one of the closed sides of the mitt and put the soap in the other side of the mitt.

Either way, it works great and the soap does not slide out of your grasp.

You can see where the soap is!  Both these pictures make this nice white bath mitt look disgusting, but it is just the poor photography.  I am so pleased with this mitt.  I have not dropped the soap since I made it!