So this weekend... I didn't have the craft mojo apparently. I felted and attempted to line my new knitted purse, but somehow seemed to fail at every turn.
Between the jamming sewing machine and pure lack of sewing mojo, I've set this little project in time out and hope to re-attempt it again this coming weekend. You might see a post sometime next week about the new selfish knitting.
Oh well on to bigger better things.
Not only do I have the purse project in the working on pile, I have a cardigan sweater (my home project) and more swiffer covers (my work project). I have two different projects going because it's just easier to leave one at work to do while on lunch and one at home to do when I have the time.
While working on the swiffer covers this afternoon I started to think. I know surprise, surprise I'm thinking.
Well in our sustainable G household project R and I have been working on, we finished out our supply of paper towels about two weeks ago. We vowed to use the dish towels we already had for everything we used to use the paper towels for.
However, I've run into a few areas that find me yearning for those easy to grab disposable towels. After much thought about it I think I've figured out a good solution that will end up on my needles. One of the paper towel relegated tasks was for covering food when nuking it in the Microwave oven. I don't necessarily want to wet an entire dish towel to complete this job now, it seems excessive. The other is to wipe down the counters after cooking or doing said dishes. We are using a dish towel a day for that day's dishes and hand wiping, but I don't want to start using much more than that because then I'm washing 8 million towels which isn't saving us much in terms of energy and water.
So my plan is to knit a bunch of wash cloth sized towels, these can be used as grab and go for either counter wipe downs or to wet and put over food about to be cooked in the nuke machine.
I think this is a good plan. I'm going to use some stitch patterns that aren't very bulky or stiff so they can be easy to manipulate and don't end up sucking all the warming action of the microwave away from the food (okay I know vaguely how a microwave works so this is a preposterous idea).
Just one more step in our journey to better ourselves, our health and our impact on this little place we call home.
