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Homemade Swiffer Cloth Patterns
A bunch of new patterns for reusable swiffer cloths added! Who doesn’t hate paying money for swiffer cloths that you just end up throwing out? Here are a few ideas for making reusable ones from cloth plus a bunch of knit, crochet & sewing patterns to make your own:
- Use old flannel diapers, jogging fleece, flannel remnants, recycle old t-shirts, towels or baby receiving blankets and cut them down to fit on your swiffer–just leave excess to push into top holders. Rinse then launder.
Free Reusable Swiffer Cloth Patterns
Knit Patterns
- Swiffer Cozy Pattern
- MD Swiffer Mop Cover
- Ball Band Mop Cover Pattern
- Swiffer Wet Jet Cover
- Free Pattern: Ballband Dishcloth Reusable Swiffer Cover
- Swiffer Zoom Pattern (pdf)
- Kansas A’s Swiffer Cover (loom knit)
Crochet Patterns
- Crochet Biffer “Shrug” (pdf)
- Crocheted Swiffer Cover
- Swiffer Cardi
- Reusable & Reversible Swiffer Sock: Free Pattern
Sewing Patterns
- Swiffer Mop Pad (a reusable one!)
- New Improved Swiffers (not a How-To pattern but you can see at a glance how to make them)
More Goodies To Check Out:
- Make Your Own Swiffer Duster – Instructions
- DIY: Pretreated Dusters or Dusting Rags
- How To Remove The Cap On A Swiffer Wet-Jet Cleaner Bottle
- Use Socks As Swiffers (perfect if you’re not into crafting one yourself)
If you prefer buying the swiffer cloths, I have come across mentions of people actually washing them and reusing a handful of times before throwing out.
Also check out Swiffer Showdown, she tests the free Zoom knit pattern against the free Ballband Knit pattern to see which homemade swiffer cover works best. Which one wins the competition? …
Both covers knit up quickly and easily. Both covers also have excellent stashbusting qualities and better-than-expected cleaning capabilities. However, the Zoom outperformed the Ballband in all areas, making it the clear and more effective winner. And prettier. Heee.
*Updated, initially published on January 18, 2007
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I just go to the nearest discount store, or discount dept. store, and buy a pack of white washcloths. I’m not into sewing, and the smaller cloths fit the swiffer without any work on my part (I’m also not into working hard!). I think the terry cloth does a very good job of dry AND wel mopping.
OHHH, thanks, simple and clever. I’ll put my scraps to work and clean out the “save for another knitting day” project. Yeah, cleaning all the way around!
hugs to you;
Kimmie
mama to 6
one homemade and 5 adopted
*and now off to adopt to Ethiopia!
Use your scrap pieces of polar fleece in your swiffers. I have a dog and a cat and the fleece grabs pet hair like a vacuum cleaner. I found that it cleaned much better than the swiffer cloths. then throw in the washer and dryer. Fleece doesn’t fray so you don’t have to worry about threads. If you have only small pieces, sew them together with a zig zag stitch on your machine or by hand to make them big enough to fit.
I use the swiffer cloths because they hold the dust better than just cloth by itself, and I can’t use a spray such as endust. Will fleece or terrycloth keep the dust on as well as the swiffer? Thanks.
I have a mop cover that is completely different from any of the above.
And it’s also free.
http://www.technicalillustrator.net/FreePatterns.html
We have a laminated wood floor which has been very hard to clean. Seems whatever I use, it becomes sticky no matter how much I dry it or dulls the floor. When I read this tip I thought of using old wash cloths! Now when I want to clean the floor, I attach an old wash cloth to the Swifter head. It is just thin enough to stay in the push-in place. Viola!! Now when I clean my floors, they look much better and I don’t break my back.
So, this idea stimulated another. That’s the way ideas should be. Thanks. Really appreciate this site and your tips. I used to write a column with tips in our church newpaper. Wish I knew you then!
love this site! never thought of something reusable/washable for my swiffer… bonus is that I have a swiffer wetjet, so a terry shop towel would do just fine, again, and again, and again….
I attach old used fabric softner sheets to the swifter and away I go. With 2 dogs and a cat- they pick up hair excellent!
SMART! I love the used dryer sheet idea!
I still have not had the time to setup my website, but it is always on the list, it just keeps moving down to the end.
I love this website, love it, luv it!
But, I am an old woman, [tee-hee] and all this swiffer, swoofer, throw-away-make-it-easier stuff , that would have surely added another 20years to my life keeps getting all tangled up with ‘make it home made’, make it cheaper. I’m not complaining, I just thought maybe there is someone else out there who feels the same way, or wants me to be ‘boiled in oil.
Debbi I am a old woman but I still have foster children. They keep me going. Swwifter is not a priority here but they do make life easier
Hope all is well in your world.
Hattie Wilson
Paramus NJ
I crocheted one of these really fast. I never thought of doing this. I added a couple of rows of netting slip stitched on one end for extra scrubbing. This works great!! Thanks for all the great ideas.
I would love to use the homemade Swiffer covers. One BIG problem is that I don’t knit or sew. Is anyone willing to sell some of theirs? I am sure I’ll still save money rather than buying the commercial ones. Thanks for your help.
Hi Gloria, check out Etsy and browse through the listings from various sellers, I’ve got the link here for search/swiffer covers: Etsy Swiffer Covers.
Thanks for the info. Love, love, love Tipnuts! I just found you but have already learned incredible things in just a week. All the tips are priceless!
Burnt food in pots
My daughter threw out an expensive pan that she burnt food in. I tried this later on one of my own pots in desperation and voila clean pot.
Squirt some dishwasher soap with a little pit of water. Boil and voila clean pot with no scrubbing.
My great-grandma taught me that trick, except instead of dish soap she had me cover the bottom of the pan with baking soda then add about a 1/4-1/2 inch of water and boil away. Works well. I also use baking soda to scrub cast iron pans rather then soap. The baking soda soaks up grease and is gritty enough to scrub pans clean.
I adopted an old swiffer wet jet from a thrift shop (only a $1).
I decided that I was going to make this frugally easy to maintain, instead of spending money like a drunken sailor on VJ day on it.
I first picked up a few handy wipe microfiber shop towels (orange and/or green colored) from my nearest dollar tree. I also had some velcro on hand. You fold the cloth in half, then put velcro (the fuzzy stuff) on the back of the cloth. You are done and you now can attach it to your wet jet. If you don’t like velcro stuff, then I don’t see why you can’t use terrycloth washclothes/old terry cloth robes, etc.
I did also buy a thing of swiffer solution so I am planning to refill that with cheap dollar store all purpose cleaner after the thing is empty. I have heard numerous things on how to refill it so I am going to try some of them and see how it goes.
I ran across a swiffer pattern some time last year and did not write it down ugh!! I have been looking to it every since.
Then I stumble upon your site. Wow!! You have so many links to choose from, thanks for listing these patterns. I love that you’ve combined so many wonderful ideas and patterns in one place!
Thanks for the site!
I LOVE Kansas’s web site!
Dora Renee’ Wilkerson
This mop/swifter reusable cover is giving me some ideas. Think I will knit some in a plain garter stitch in some pretty colors and give them with a swifter as part of a wedding shower present. Maybe knit a few dust clothes to go with them and a storage bag to keep them all in. It would be a little extra to go with the towels I had plan to buy as requested on the bridal gift register. Neat idea. Think I will make myself a cover first and try it out.
I use the microfiber cleaning cloths which do a better job than the real swiffer cloths. I just poke it into the holes of my swiffer vac, when finished I just launder the cloth with my husbands dirty jeans.
I use the Viva paper towels on my swifter and they work great,much cheaper than the swifter cloths
I have the Swiffer sweeper vac and love it considering I have small children and no carpets in my house. I was purchasing a refil for the dry cloths that accompany the vac when I saw next to them on the same shelf the generic brand box of the same thing. Not only were they about $3 cheaper but the box had double the amount. I use them every single day, and depending on the dirt amount I will turn them over to use the other side. I buy one box of those once every 3 months or so. Very economical for an uncrafty person.
Free idea! Use quilt batting scraps for your swiffer. Find yourself someone who quilts or has a machine quilting business and ask for the batting scraps. Cut to size to fit your swiffer. You can wash and reuse. Also good for dusting.