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| Towels in a sad state |
Please tell me this happens in your house, too. We have matching, still-useful, aging, frayed-edged bath towels. I love drying off with them. They are thick enough and soft enough to do a good job while being thin enough to let go of their moisture in place that is already pretty wet. But now they are looking ragged and down-right shabby. For anyone wanting abundance to flow in, shabby bath towels are a no-no, to say nothing of having what looks like rags hanging on the towel rack.
But they're my friends!
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| Cleanly finished edges restore their self-esteem. I feel better, too. |
I'll just buzz the edges of those babies with my serger as one of the
Things I get to do today to increase my abundance, my feel-goods after a shower, and the overall good looks of my bathroom. Bet there's another three good years in those towels. Some friends are nearly forever.
Cotton towels take dye well, if you are only concerned about the colour. I re-hem and cut down soft fuzzy bath towels all the time. They usually end up with several re-purposing(s). Since I live with a small hairy sponge(Chene-my Pom) and Spencer. Chene has his own set of very nice bath towels and walk towels that really absorb the moisture from his very dense fur. He will retrieve them to be dried with after a walk. Those towels have become so important to him that he demands a rub down after a walk even if it isn't raining. Chene prefers the smaller cut down ones. He knows which are his. Easier to hide his towels from the cats, which outweigh him by 5 or 6 lbs. Now,If I could only teach Chene and Spencer that wet towels better hung up to dry rather put into a hamper...life could be even better. As the towels become smaller they become really good utility clothes and some live in the studio.
ReplyDeleteWow!! A good towel never dies. It just goes. . .and goes. The dye trick is divine.
DeleteIt's hard to let go of a "good" towel!
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should. Just keep finding uses for it until it goes out as a piece of clothes drier lint, gathered with the rest at the end of the wash. Handy Andy.
DeleteMeant to say: Maybe be we shouldn't let go of them.
DeleteActually- maybe not even then. I know a textile artist that works in dryer lint. She makes felt from the coloured lints.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a picture of any of her work? Kathe! You are too much!
DeleteHere's the link to Laura Bell's Drier lint art piece "The Last Supper". Oh my.
Deletehttp://www.ripleysnewsroom.com/lint/