The Things I do for my Sweetie

 

Or maybe a better title would be “What I do When I Get Bored”.  Read on and decide for yourself.

Since I started working, my dear sweet husband has been (mostly) on kitchen duty at night.  Imagine my surprise when one night recently, he came to me and complained that our dish towels do not dry the dishes.  He couldn’t let it go at that.  He had to demonstrate the inferiority of our dish towels when competing with a BATH TOWEL! 

Well, heck.  when I do the dishes, I certainly do not dry them.  That’s what the drain rack is for!  So how was I to know that my pretty linen/cotton dish towels wouldn’t dry the dishes? 

Being the fixer that I am, I decided Kim, if he’s going to do the dishes, you need to get him some dish towels.  That went into my mental “to do” list. 

The very next day, I had a child home sick from school.  I had recently finished a quick sew project and I guess I had sewing on the brain.  I remembered reading in a “Heloise” book about her cutting off the frayed edges of bath towels and adding a new hem to them.  (Yeah, that one’s been floating around in my mind for probably 25 years.  I read whatever was around, even then.)

Here’s where my mind led me:

One bath towel, equals 4 dish towels. 

Yeah, I was just this scientific with it. 

I laid out the dish towel on the bath towel and that was it, I knew it would work!

 

The above mentioned child was too sick to be at school, but too sick to need me to, so I was really left to entertain myself with this project .

 

 

So I cut the towel into four equal (or close to) pieces.

 

 

 

I then used the over lock stitch using my friend Jessica's sewing machine.  (When mine broke a looong time ago, she told me that hers could sit at my house just as easy as it could hers.) I stitched a hem all the way around.  And that was it.  I folded the “new'” dish towels and tied them with what I thought resembled a masculine bow.  I presented said dear sweet, dish pan hands hubbie of mine with his manly dish towels when he came home from work.  He thought it was sweet.  I’m sure he wondered wonders why we didn’t just buy some dish towels.  He’s been married to me long enough to not even ask a question like that.

It killed an hour.  It was free.  It was frugal and it was fun.  I think this is a good Works for Me Wednesday tip, so I’m sharing at We Are that Family!