hand made tea towels

Hi everyone, 

Tom and I have always been brutal with how we use tea towels in our household. If something spills on the floor whether it is coffee, wine or beet juice, a tea towel is the first line of mopping up. So our tea towels almost always look grungy after a few uses. I do soak/wash them with bleach to get most of the stains out and I know they are clean but they dont often look nice. Lol

So the alternative is to continue replacing with new towels. I find that tea towels are either $6 to $8.00 for a decent one, and a cheap one from the small change stores wouldn't hold up very long under our conditions..

So the alternative is to make them. I look for large cotton tablecloths at thrift shops and often they are very inexpensive, maybe having a couple of small stains on them is all. These tea towels were made from a tablecloth I picked up this week. I cut/tore into 8 pieces, hemmed the edges on the sewing machine and in less than an hour I have 8 pretty teatowels. Ohh and by the way, the table cloth cost me a mere 50 cents. 

Score!