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Life's Too Short for Ugly Dish Towels

A friend recently shared the following words of wisdom, "Life's too short for ugly dish towels". She's right. I'm a bit of a dish towel snob myself, shelling out what many would deem too much money for a piece of pretty fabric to drape over the oven handle. Seven years ago (has it really been that long?) I took a class at Home Ec. Workshop . Actually I took many classes. This one, in particular, was on making your own silk screen and how to use it. In that class I made my (now famous) owl screen. I have used it countless times over the years to create screens in clothing, throw pillows, and, you guess it, dish towels. I especially love screening tea towels. Tea towels are your everyday drying towels, you may remember your grandmother or great grandmother using them to dry her dishes. When I speak of a dishtowel, I'm not talking about the lightweight terry cloth variety found in big box stores. A tea towel can be the most delicate tea towel fabric all t