More time ago than I’d like to admit, I started knitting the handtowels from the Mason Dixon ladies’ first book. This is one of those projects that I don’t have to hide away in my studio to work on, or worry about keeping things clean, so I have it tucked in a basket I keep next to my couch so that I can pull it out whenever we’re having family together time, otherwise known as watching television.
Unfortunately, because there’s no rush to get them finished, no deadline waiting or birthdays to be missed, they’ve been languishing in the basket for years. With the new year, and spring that arrives at about the same time here in San Diego, my thoughts are turning to sprucing up the house and finishing up some projects that have been on my mind for ages, so it’s time to assign these towels a deadline.
The towels I have in the downstairs bathroom, the bathroom off the living room and therefore the one that guests are most likely to use, are rolled up and arranged in a ceramic bowl. It looks nice enough, but no one ever uses them. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen someone come out of the bathroom wiping their hands on their pants because they didn’t want to disturb the arrangement.
My new thought is that these handtowels, knitted up in a simple cotton yarn, will look nice enough on their own that I can just stack them up on a cute little table, and when they’re not arranged in some complicated design someone might actually be brave enough to take one off the pile and put it to use.
They are coming out beautifully!!!They will look great on a table in a bathroom.