Thank you Aunty Mimi

2007 August long weekend, the girls and I travelled up to Lac Des Roches, a lake in the inter-lake area of the caribou tucked between 100 Mile House and Little Fort. We went up to see my paternal family who live up in the area year round and host a bocci tournament every August. Just before we were leaving my aunt came out of her spare room with a small package in her hand, in it was a green and cream doily and a set of dish towels. The photo above is one of the set. It is an interesting spin on the kitchen hand towel. You start with a dish towel and you cut it down the middle width-wise, leaving you with two halves. Next you crochet the top portion, decreasing your stitches in half every two to three rows until you have only 5ish stitches left, which you create into the long portion you can see just above the button. At the end of this long piece you create a button hole with a chain of stitches that you then attach back into the other side of the long piece.

Once this piece is done, you cut your towel in half, and with a large darning needle you stitch between each crochet stitch onto the rough edge of your towel. Before doing this it would be smart to either serge the rough edge or sew a small seam to keep the fabric from fraying. Once this is done, you simply sew on a button.

Here are the tea towels I purchased for my attempt at making these. I bought 10 of them in total, which will make 10 sets, but means I will need to make a total of 20.


And, here are two sets of crochet tops to these towels.

Once they are complete, I will post a photo of them. Until then, 4 down of the crochet tops, 16 more to go! :)