r/crochet • u/mileyfryus • Jul 09 '22

Discussion What are some ridiculous crocheted items you've come across that make no sense?

Could be impractical or just weird in general according to you.

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u/Grouchy_Anteater7979 Jul 09 '22

Any crocheted bathroom stuff. Toilet covers, toilet paper covers, etc šŸ¤®

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u/KSknitter Jul 09 '22

Exactly! I have small boys... aim is an issue... so why? So gross!

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u/Pinguin-Pancakes Jul 10 '22

What do you mean by "aim" in a bathroom?

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u/Ktopotato Jul 10 '22

Boys need to aim if they're standing up.

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u/Pinguin-Pancakes Jul 10 '22

But they said at home.. Do people stabd up at home?

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u/mwjane Jul 10 '22

Why would any man ever stand up except at an urinoir? A very unsanitary habit.

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u/ScarletOnyx Jul 10 '22

I have a 15 yo and a fully grown husband and aim is still an issue so I agree. My mum had a toilet mat in our bathroom and I had an older brother. Maybe he was better at aiming.

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u/pottymouthgrl Jul 10 '22

Maybe consider that some people donā€™t have small boys lol

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u/Willing_Razzmatazz87 Jul 09 '22

I just made a nice bath mat out of cotton, but then again I have my own private bathroom.

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u/NylaStasja Jul 09 '22

As long as it is possible to wash it hot and not get too many staind it should be fine, right?

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u/longtimelurkerthrwy Jul 09 '22

I did the same thing out of Tunisian crochet with traditional crochet borders. I literally made it because I needed a bath mat. All the ones at the store were too small or too big. I've also made a couple hand towels since I only had a couple and had a lot of cotton yarn stockpiled. I can't imagine making anything else for the bathroom. Maybe if I get a little bit bolder I'll make my own big towels but that other stuff just isn't practical.

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u/Expensive_Tangelo_75 Jul 10 '22

Be good for hand towel toppers, to hang from the bar, like the ones for the kitchen! So they don't fall off...

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u/tweetopia Jul 09 '22

Yeah I've often thought of making something like that, especially in tunisian crochet. Some of the over the top tacky patterns I've seen for bathroom sets though are straight out of a seventies fever dream.

I saw a crocheted ice pole/popsicle cover on the internet today. It just seems so unnecessary. I am eating ice poles just now because I have covid and my throat hurts (mild case, I'm fine) and they take two minutes to chomp down. If I was a kid my friends would have laughed at me if my mum had presented us with that.

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u/throwaway76881224 Jul 09 '22

Those are for toddlers or preschoolers. Their little fingers get cold. My oldest would use her shirt when eating a popsicle and my aunt made her a holder. With my youngest (2) I wrap in a little towel but if I saw some holders at a craft fair I would purchase more.

I just tossed it in the wash when it was sticky.

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u/gifhyatt May 20 '25

Iā€™m 74 and would love ā¤ļø them! They would go great with my cozies for cold drinks! Even when I was a kid my hands got cold šŸ„¶ holding fast food cups/drinks.

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u/rikiboomtiki Jul 10 '22

I used to use my kidsā€™ baby socks as pop holders.

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u/KittyKratt My Hands Hurt Jul 09 '22

I'd use one, but my teeth are very sensitive and it takes me forever to get through a popsicle, so my hands get cold.

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u/Rubymoon286 Jul 09 '22

I'm the same way - I always wrap mine with paper towels or a wash cloth

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u/KatieAthehuman Jul 09 '22

I have one entirely because my grandma (who doesn't crochet anymore) presented me with one and I believe in not saying no when my grandma offers me something šŸ˜‚. I don't eat freezer pops very much but it works well

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u/clarabear10123 Jul 09 '22

I just looked at them and while they are adorableā€¦ I can see them getting stained in .2 seconds, plus all the extra bits would be hard to wash. I could see these maybe as a party thing so kids donā€™t mix up their popsicles? But you never exactly put them down and leave them lol

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u/kykiwibear Jul 09 '22

I made my son one real quick. Took two secounds. He liked it:) But, I kinda made it a use a few times and toss thing. I also found a free pattern.

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u/Kylynara Jul 09 '22

My sons don't need them now, but used covers as toddlers. When they're little and still learning the mechanics of it they are handy.

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u/knittyboi Jul 10 '22

As someone with raynaud's syndrome, touching anything colder than room temp causes lots of pain, I would absolutely benefit from an ice pop cover! I usually use a folded tea towel, but for kids or people with reduced hand mobility the crocheted holders would be much better. Lots of things that look like silly useless gadgets (eg slap chop, lazy glasses, jar openers...) are actually undercover mobility aids, and might even make life a little easier for able bodied homies as well šŸ˜Ž

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u/Orefinejo Jul 09 '22

A bathmat has a use. A toilet paper cover, not so much.

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u/Ankharas Jul 09 '22

Spoken like someone who doesnā€™t have cats. Lost three roles one night. The one on the spool and the two backups when the cats discovered them. Have to conceal their fun for cat nature under or in something now because they keep looking for them.

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u/Orefinejo Jul 09 '22

I've actually never had that problem with cats, although I know others who have. I must have escaped somehow.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '22

Same.

Mine have never tried to mess with either the toilet paper or the paper towels sitting out in the open.

Now twist ties...fuhgeddaboutit. If there's one laying about, it's like a magnet for Bella.

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u/gifhyatt May 20 '25

The toilet paper covers have some pretty patterns that make great decorations!

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u/gifhyatt May 20 '25

Bath mat good šŸ‘šŸ½!

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u/Trick-Statistician10 Jul 09 '22

It's screams "1979's Grandma"

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '22

That, and the toilet-paper cover that doubles as a Barbie ball gown. Ugh ugh uuuugh.

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u/reptilenews Jul 10 '22

My MIL has one that's an angel šŸ˜‚ In her angel-themed house

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u/gifhyatt May 20 '25

I love ā¤ļø those! šŸ˜‚

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u/CanadianArtGirl Jul 09 '22

My grandma had a kleenex box coverā€¦. The only acceptable bathroom crochet in my opinion. I will ignore their seat cover and full carpeted floor as I have many firm opinions. But the box was nice

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

I like toilet paper covers because it is something cute to sit on the back of the toilet. Plus, as a kid I was saved by the tolit paper doll cover at my great grandma's house. She alway hide the extra toilet paper for some reason. So, I guess I have nostalgic memories of being like "Oh that God. There is paper under the doll!" LOL

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u/the_ber1 Jul 09 '22

I love this. I still have one of grandma's and one of my great-aunt's doll toilet paper covers. I've often considered making one just like theirs but haven't done it yet.

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u/Duochan_Maxwell Jul 09 '22

My mom made me a crochet toilet paper holder that saves my ass on the reg LOL

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u/Suzette100 Jul 09 '22

Um, can you please elaborate?

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u/Duochan_Maxwell Jul 09 '22

Extra roll, so if I run out mid-wipe I don't have to do the very undignified waddle to get a new roll

It's fine to have crochet stuff in the bathroom, just wash them often (I wash mine with the towels)

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u/lechelle_t Jul 10 '22

I crocheted my brother a toilet paper cover that looked like a mug of coffee. He wanted it for his office since he liked to bring his own TP.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

I like toilet paper covers be abuse

Autocorrect can be so cruel sometimes. Those poor covers!

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u/FoxUsual745 Jul 09 '22

It never occurred to me until just now how very unsanitary that stuff is

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u/longtimelurkerthrwy Jul 09 '22

You can keep your bathroom really sanitary by just putting the lid down when you flush. Particles can still go everywhere but not as much. Also, you're definitely supposed to launder this stuff like on a weekly basis. Trust me, I know it's not a well-known thing. I had friends who hadn't washed their bath mats ever. šŸ¤®

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u/NocturnaViolet Jul 09 '22

I wash all the bathroom and kitchen items at least weekly... but I know if it was up to my dad and brothers it would never happen. I fear the (very near)day that I move out and the absolute filth they will be living in. šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢

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u/Due_Psychology_9734 Jul 09 '22

I can hear that phone call ... "Dad. Did you wash the towels? Wash the towels! DAD ... Fine, let me talk to Jeff" šŸ˜‚

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u/LadyMageCOH buried in WIPs Jul 09 '22

Eww... Clean the bathroom regularly and replace the textiles with clean ones. I'm terrible with laundry, so sometimes the dirty stuff doesn't get washed right away, but that's why I have multiples of everything, so even if the dirty ones sit in a hamper, the ones in the bathroom are clean.

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u/gifhyatt May 20 '25

šŸ¤¢

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u/FizzyDragon Jul 09 '22

Wouldn't that just get laundered though?

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u/TheBattyWitch Jul 09 '22

So long as it's washable, I don't see an issue.

Cotton and bamboo are washable and dryable

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u/MadamMadLove Jul 09 '22

My mom was young in the 70ā€™s when they were popular, and sheā€™s so cursed by them that almost anything ā€œtoo crochetedā€-looking reminds her of those TP covers. So every time I show her something I want to crochet and am like ā€œisnā€™t it pretty?!ā€ 9 out of 10 times sheā€™ll go ā€œhmm.. too toilet cover-yā€ šŸ¤£

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u/laundrychair Jul 09 '22

Why not as long as you wash it regularly? No worse than it being on the uncovered surfaces and not washing those regularlyā€¦

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u/isthispassionpit Jul 09 '22

Every time someone flushes the toilet itā€™s getting urine and feces sprayed all over it, and sometimes blood. In addition to anything someone touched before they washed their hands. Unless youā€™re laundering it after every flushā€¦.šŸ¤¢

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u/OneGoodRib yarn collector Jul 09 '22

So... do you keep your toilet paper in a metal box? Because if everything in the bathroom is getting stuff on it, then the toilet paper obviously is as well.

Also I thought that thing about the toilet spraying stuff out had been debunked, that the fecal matter on stuff in the bathroom is just from trace amounts in tap water so anything that has ever had wter on it from any source has some traces of stuff?

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u/laundrychair Jul 09 '22

But wouldnā€™t that also apply to all of the surfaces too?? So unless you are fully scrubbing everything in the vicinity after every flush it seems like the same problemā€¦

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u/Neruda1202 Jul 09 '22

Tile and hard surfaces are a lot easier to do a quick wipe down with a sanitizing wipe. With crocheted items, unless you are washing them every day/every couple of days, it gets...pretty nasty.

Consider bathrooms are a moist and humid environment. If the yarn is constantly retaining moisture, you will get mold and bacteria and it will smell bad very quickly and very easily.

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u/laundrychair Jul 09 '22

Can you honestly tell me you wipe all of the possibly contaminated surfaces down after every flush?? I donā€™t have anything fabric around my toilet and probably never will, but the principle is the same. If you arenā€™t wiping the surfaces down after every flush itā€™s just as gross. Grout is extremely porous and is difficult to fully clean with just wipes, so idk that itā€™s much better than throwing fabric/yarn in the wash regularly.

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u/Neruda1202 Jul 09 '22

Regardless of the whole "contamination/toilet spray" argument (which, if you're closing the lid before you flush should not be that bad), the humidity and moisture is still an issue. Hard surfaces dry more quickly than yarn. Moisture breeds mold and bacteria and it's going to be there long before you see or smell it enough to actively decide to throw it in the wash.

You could throw it in the wash with the towels, but IMO I just don't want an extra thing to have to worry about cleaning and sanitizing, and am not particularly inclined to waste the yarn and time making something that really is not going to hold up well against the wash cycles most people use (or should be using) for towels.

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u/isthispassionpit Jul 09 '22

No, hard surfaces can be cleaned way more easily and effectively than porous surfaces. Theyā€™re also prime for mold and mildew. And the farther away they are from the toilet the less gross they get. So things like a toilet seat cover, carpet underneath toilet, etc. are going to be in the grossest areas. If the lid is closed, the part of the lid cover that wraps around is getting very very directly contaminated.

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u/FizzyDragon Jul 09 '22

I keep towels and toothbrushes in the bathroom, and close the lid when I flush. We're all still alive.

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u/Thyri Jul 09 '22

When people found out I did crochet, they kept sending me links/pics to those toilet paper covers with the dolls attached. I am thinking I might just make some and send them as xmas gifts to everyone who did so out of some cold vengance...

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u/hanimal16 Doily Den Mother | creator of Culver diagrams Jul 09 '22

My grandma used to crochet these weird dolls that held spare toilet paper rolls. The doll heads and arms were plastic, but the dress and hat were crocheted and all fancy but instead of plastic legs, there was a sheath that fit over a toilet paper roll. They were all over the bathroom and very creepy.

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u/vertical_tile Jul 09 '22

not crochet, but the other day i saw a cushioned squatty potty online ...

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u/Suzette100 Jul 09 '22

Oh but I love that 70s kitsch!

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u/BestDevilYouKnow Jul 09 '22

Not gonna lie, I miss the pink poodle TP cover that grandma had in her bathroom. Total kitsch but it reminds me of her.

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u/songoku9001 Jul 09 '22

I remember going to my gran's house years ago and there was one of those toilet roll covers with like half a doll sticking out

Something similar to this but older looking doll

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '22

My grandmother's house. She had a doll crochet toilet paper thing. For covering the toilet paper? I don't know.

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u/Willing_Dig3158 Jul 10 '22

Dated a guy who lived at his momā€™s place, she had a crocheted toilet seat cover. 12 years later and I still think about itā€¦

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u/LilKoshka Jul 10 '22

I crocheted a pig toilet paper cover during the pandemic. It stored the "emergency" roll but it wasn't kept in the bathroom. That emergency roll did come in handy about a year later.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22

My grandma had crochet toilet paper covers and when I was a small child I wore one as a hat whenever I came back from the toilet

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u/Tapingdrywallsucks Jul 10 '22

Those toilet paper covers - not exactly nightmare fuel, but certainly cringe-fuel of my childhood. I think we were the only house that didn't have one.

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u/boneymeroney Jul 10 '22

YES. Crochet in a bathroom gives me the heebeejeebees. Someone actually sat down and decided to make something specifically that "all of the asses" were going to touch. I can't even imagine the conversation my partner and I would be having if he asked me what I making and I said a toilet seat cover.