We received a video from DS the other day of DGD crawling! We had received one the previous day where she was pushing one leg out to the side, commando crawling style, then pushing and hauling herself forward. Today was a slow and wobbly but full on crawl. Way to go little girl. She looked as pleased as punch!
I like to buy 100% thick fluffy tea towels as they work better for other projects after their initial use.
Tea towels in our house, which we change every day, last between one and two years. After this, they can be cut into half to make floor or cleaning cloths (oversewing the cut edges).
Each half could be folded into half and stitched to create vegetable and fruit storage bags for the fridge. Cut into quarters, they make good quality dish washing cloths. Dishclothes are changed every day but I crochet about 10 of them every or every other year.
Bathroom towels are bought every, or every other year depending on how threadbare they get. We never pay much for them which is probably why they don't last for too long. The current (now old) towels go off for drying (us or the dog) after muddy walks. The ones previously used go off to an animal rescue centre.
The old hand towels are cut in half, oversewn and become new kitchen towels for drying our hands on.
It sounds like DGD has her own and successful style of crawling. I reuse my tea towels too, and have a lot of them so I can keep putting up clean ones daily or more often when family comes over.
ReplyDeleteJust a day later she was trying to pull herself up but couldn’t get her feet to coordinate.
DeleteI had three good quality linen tea towels that I was gifted to blog about on my second blog, back in 2010 I think it was and they are just about on their last legs now, but it does show you get what you pay for (they would have been about £8 each to buy I think). One has been relegated to the workshop as a machine cleaning rag and I think the others will be joining it this week as I have just found an unused tea towel in the kitchen drawer. It's one my Mum bought from Scotland on a holiday as the Scottish chap on it looks just like Alan and I could never bring myself to dry the pots with it ... I can now :-)
ReplyDeleteI have tried linen but can’t get on with it. It always seems so thin to me. I know some people who don’t change their dishcloths for weeks. Goodness knows what’s breeding on them!
DeleteI have 4 sets of sheets and lots of extra pillowcases as I change them mid-week. I have just had to replace 3 sheets after many, many years - all have been cut up for dusters and cleaning cloths.
ReplyDeleteI have 4 sets of towels (each set is 2 bath towels & 3 hand towels) - plus I have extra co-ordianted hand towels and about 18 facecloths. I buy fairly pricy towels (but look for sales) as I find they last for years and I like nice, thick towels. Any that do get worn usually get passed along to a friend who collects for animal shelters.
I have 1 set of kitchen towels and tea towels in red and 1 set in turquoise - each consists of 4 kitchen towels and 8 tea towels - I also have a supply of "bar towels" in white that I often use in place of paper towels for food prep. A pet peeve of mine is when I see people (and this includes chefs on tv) wiping their hands or counter tops with tea towels and then using the same cloth to dry dishes or food! YUCK!
I agree about the last remark re chefs. I caught the end of a cookery programme today. The chef used the spoon he had been frying with, to remove some coconut milk from a can, thereby contaminating the remainder of the tin. He then dumped the rest of the can in the bin. Really!!!
DeleteThe wonders of technology, its wonderful that you are able to watch the progress of your dear grand daughter. I must admit one of my pet peeves is dirty tea towels.
ReplyDeleteThanks goodness for technology. One year old and seen for a total of 5 days. I can’t imagine how ‘clean’ pots can be if dried with a filthy cloth.
DeleteMuch the same here. Tea towels later go to be used for drying pet dishes. Old towels used to be for Sophie, the lab/retriever but will now be passed on to a daughter for her dogs.
ReplyDeleteWe have different coloured tea towels for Ruby.
DeleteOld tea towels here become cleaning rags. I really need to make a few more at some point this year. Towels are cut up and Harvey uses them in his workroom. I really need to purchase another set of towel (and hand towels) as one set is getting pretty thread bare.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
As a child I remember trying to dry myself with threadbare towels, didn’t get very dry!
DeleteOld terry bath towels become shop rags for DH. Kitchen towels & tea towels are used for kitchen rags.
ReplyDeleteMy wonderful boss gifted me a set of the plushest bath towels for Christmas. So poofy! I love them and want to get some for my ddils for their birthdays, along with some nice smelling bath soap.
Plush towels, how lovely.
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