I used this tutorial as the inspiration to make this item today. It's a former cotton bed sheet with a tear in it that I decided to recycle into something more useful... a knitted bathmat!

Bea Arthur checking it out:



Yep, he likes it... you can tell because of how he's going to knead the crap out of it:



Here it is all wrapped up pretty. (joanofarrgh gave me that lovely little print on the wall!)



I just tore the bedsheet into thin strips, attached the strips together as described in the tutorial and went at it. It only took me four or five hours while chatting with a friend on my couch with margaritas. I wasn't sure how I felt about it at first as it was knitting up, but now it's so squishy, soft, and purposeful that I just love it.

I've been pretty big into functional crafts recently, probably due to my apartment being the size of your apartment's bathroom closet. While tiny little crocheted sushi rolls or paper robots ARE cute, I think I would fly into immediate cardiac arrest if someone gave something like that to me as a gift.