Sometimes, You Just Need to Do It Yourself (DIY)

We've been in the process of renovating/up-dating our home.  For a good portion of it, we've been putting in sweat equity and doing it ourselves.  During this process, some things in our home have changed.  One particular item is how our hand towels are held (or not) in our bathrooms.  In our "old" bathroom, the hand towel used to just sit on the counter.  However, in our "new" bathroom, there's now a hook to hold the hand towel.  Now, the "old" hand towel looked ridiculously small hanging on the new hook (besides the fact that it had lived (significantly) longer than it should have in the life of a hand towel).  So, that meant that it was time to get new hand towels as well (to match with our new bathroom).

To test the waters, I dug up another hand towel we had and found that it was ridiculously large; a Goldilocks effect ensued - first, we had a towel that was too small; now, it's too big.  So, like any DYIer, I decided that I would simply have to make my own hand towel to fit my new space perfectly - so that it was "just right".

Fortunately, I (still) had one (1) skein of Lily's Sugar 'n Cream in Lava Lamp left and decided that it was going to be my test piece.  Using my Denise US10.5 needles, I casted on 25 sts and used the Linen Stitch for 165 rows (ending on a Row 1).  Then I bound off.

Here's what my finished product looks like:

Now, I hope it works out as perfectly as I envisioned it! 😉  If it does, it looks like I'll be making a few more hand towels for our new bathrooms (*yay*, reason to try out different cotton yarns! 😁  There's always a silver lining!😆).

Up-date:  After washing it a few times, it shrunk a bit.  I think I need to make my next one a bit wider.  Additionally, it's true what the many reviews say about Lily's Sugar 'n Cream: if you're using it as a dishcloth/washcloth, it just moves the water around and doesn't actually absorb anything.  Looks like I'll be finding different cotton yarn to try again!