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Pattern by Cindi Edwards. Gauge is really irrelevant, since it's a decorative piece.

You can make a very easy knitted bath fiber and trivet gift with crochet.

This crochet kitchen scrubby is designed to have the same look and feel as your kitchen sponge, but is 100% cotton and reusable.

If you are interested in the full written pattern, you can find it for free on my blog: https://www.caabcrochet.com/crochet-kitchen-scrubby-pattern/

Worked in rows, using two Tunisian hooks. The hooks do not need to be the same size, but your gauge will be determined by the larger hook, and the smaller hook should be large enough to work comfortably with your chosen yarn. Choose any weight yarn you like, and hooks of a size appropriate to your yarn weight. This method comes from a YouTube video made for the Australian Handknitters and Spinners Group on Facebook, and have adapted the method in this pattern. You can find the original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9EPn67mGg

Tutorial on how to crochet a towel topper; the pattern is by the videographer. Things I like about this design: it doesn't require a sewing machine because the base of the design is chain-stitches across the middle of the (tea) towel, you don't have to guess at the length of the chain-stitches, the gathering is done by decreases in the crochet, and the stitch-pattern in the main body of the towel-topper is quite pretty.

Donna Wolfe from Naztazia demonstrates how to both crochet and knit a twisted scrubbie based upon a chinese knot.

Looks like a nice thick coaster; possibly useful larger as a potholder.

The coasters and the basket with lid are done in rope-crochet = crochet stitches made round rope. Yarns used: any yarn will do: from lace weight taken double or triple, to bulky. The definite size depends on the rope you'll use inside of your stitches and on the yarn used. You can make something fine and delicate as well as something sturdy. I worked with two strands of lace weight leftovers from shawls - I changed often one strand in color, so that I obtain that 'tweedy' effect. The final size is as you decide it's got to be -- no gauge needed but you'll need to crochet with a smaller hook than normally done with that yarn, because the stitches need to be tight to add some solidity.

While this is a pattern for a potholder, it could be used as a motif used for something else; the two-colour spiral is attractive in its own right.

While this is a pattern for a coaster, the spiral design could be used as a motif for something else also

This makes a quick double-thick potholder. The technique involves doing single-crochet into the back loop AND the back loop of the row below. This makes the cloth double-thick because the single crochet rows overlap each other. While this is officially a pattern for a potholder, it would work for a facecloth as well, being thick and soft.

Four-colour spiral crochet with the outer edge crocheted in a fifth colour.

This looks very cool, though I'm not sure how practical it is.