The object
These started as housewarming gifts because I could never find a card that felt like enough. Flour-sack cotton is the right pick for a kitchen towel and most people don't know it — it's thin, it's lint-free, and it actually dries a glass instead of pushing water around. The embroidery sits in the corner so it stays out of the way of the actual job.
Materials
100% cotton flour sack, colorfast cotton embroidery thread
Process
I hoop each towel and guide it under the needle by hand rather than letting a machine run a pattern unattended, which is why the stitch density varies slightly across a set. Every design gets a test run on scrap from the same bolt first, because thread that behaves on one weave will pucker on another.
Details
- Dimensions
- 28" x 28" each, set of two
- Weight
- 180 g (6.3 oz)
Care instructions
Machine wash warm, tumble dry low. Skip fabric softener — it coats the cotton and ruins the absorbency, which is the entire point of a flour-sack towel.
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