I've again become sidetracked with
knitting; this time it's to replace my sorry old kitchen towels. In
ready-mades I was looking for something really specific, so
unsurprisingly, it doesn't seem to exist: medium to dark colours;
busy patterns without too much white in them; and thick fabric—the last seems pretty hard
to find these days, at any price. One of my main uses for these is mopping up tea or colorful ingredients, but a lot of what I could find was thin, solid-coloured pastels that would get very noticeably stained on first use. I guess you could bleach them, but then you never quite know what color might result.
Well,
two balls of Bernat Handicrafter will make a decent-sized towel for
less than $3, when it's on sale. I got many different colors in an
attempt to tie together all the miscellaneous colors in my kitchen;
if I don't make myself thoroughly sick of this I could end up with 12 towels,
which should pretty well replace what I've got. Here's one in Indigo and Lime Stripes.
It's a
Purl Soho pattern that I downscaled, in both senses; you're meant to
use Euroflax linen, which is lovely, but will make a thinner towel at
a significantly higher price. It seems to me that linen yarn is less absorbent, somehow, too—is it the smoother surface, or just the fact that it's never spun as thick? Most importantly, they'd take a lot
longer to knit as intended. Maybe someday.
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