Red redux

~ Liz A

“Things you value and know to be true.”

Acey’s words finally sank in as I continued to work on the second red square, the one that called out “poinsettia” in response to Dana’s comment …

Things I value and know to be true.

Home.

Family.

Food is love.

And this community of cloth … the one I entered upon finding Jude Hill’s Spirit Cloth … the Kindred Spirits.

So I guess it wasn’t surprising that I travelled back in time to my initial explorations, which included the Kitchen Towel Series. Pieces that had purpose, not only as a tool in the kitchen, but as a way of testing the durability of cloth and stitch, how they might withstand many trips through the laundry. They withstood it quite well, it turns out.

And so it grew in my mind to create a new kitchen towel …

And to finally finish another one begun two years ago …

Because, one can never have too many kitchen towels …

no matter how long they last.

17 thoughts on “Red redux”

  1. Liz~ Oh I was enthralled with your kitchen towel series and this newest one is so bold and beautiful! Perfect addition to your holiday kitchen 🙂 How beautiful you decorate your home for the season. Stitch on!

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  5. Well its’ all looking pretty stunning to me! Love the wonkiness and all the reds playing together – depth and vibrancy abound. I have clicked and linked without being able to track it down on your site, so here I am, about to ask the dumb question – what is a kitchen towel? I am wondering if it is what we call a tea towel? The cotton/linen cloth that hangs over the oven handle or a dishwasher drawer handle and which is used to dry the washing up? That is, the washing up is when one ‘does the dishes’? Hope I am somewhere in a language translation ballpark or it’s all going to be quite funny. A kitchen cloth for me is the thing I wipe down the benches with. Can you tell me the dimensions of your kitchen towel perchance? go well.

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    1. I laughed for the sheer joy of this … how much we take for granted in the words and phrases we use. So I in turn had to look up “tea towel” and “kitchen cloth” … and indeed the ones I stitched here would be considered “tea towels” for drying dishes after they are washed. Not that I do that much at all … my kitchen towels hang over the oven door handle and are mostly used for drying our hands (Don and I wash our hands quite a lot as we prepare meals and after putting dishes in the dishwasher … it’s quite a dance as we cross paths in the kitchen, each on our own missions). As for wiping down the counter tops, I have a kitchen sponge for that (one with a silver component which supposedly gives it anti-bacterial properties between launderings).

      So, in answer to your question, my favorite kitchen/tea towel is 16×24 inches … the ones I made here are a bit smaller, but approximately the same 2:3 proportions

      Last, but not least … I took a peek at my favorite online dictionary, m-w.com, and found these definitions of “kitchen towel”

      1 British : soft paper that is used for cleaning, wiping up liquid, etc. : paper towel
      2 : a usually flat-weave, lint-free towel for use in a kitchen, as for drying washed dishes

      No wonder you wondered!

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      1. I know! I love that we all speak the same language yet our idioms and descriptors of things are so uniquely geographical. Thank you for your excellent explanation – we have both a tea towel and a hand towel (more towel-like) in the kitchen and use them for various things and sometimes interchangeably so that adds yet another dimension. I love your idea of making tea towels/kitchen towels form pieces as testers for stitching. I have plans to do letterpress printing on some too. Thanks and smiles from here.

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  7. Hi LA – stunning kitchen-tea towel (lol). I love the notion of a patchwork kitchen towel – looks great and must have extra absorbency. Go well. B

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