I was digging around in my office the other day and found 2 large quantities of fabric from 2011 I had for the most part forgotten about. Both had been full bolt purchases: a Roc-Lon waffle muslin in tan and a white cotton Birdseye/diaper cloth. I started pondering useful ways I can use these and the Birdseye seemed like a great fit for something else I’ve been wanting to tackle: reducing our use of consumable products.
Two places we use a ton of paper towels are kitchen mess cleanup and dog cleanup. In the kitchen it’s largely that our kitchen towels are from our travels, we use the for drying hands and clean dishes not
messy cleanup. For the dog, bless him he’s just a slobbery mess and requires face wiping after each meal and after schlurping water or he just slobbers everywhere.
So I pulled 1/4 yard of fabric I had left from when I bought samples to make curtains 6+ years ago and an old teal sheet and got to work making 12” blocks, which got sewn to the Birdseye, turned right sides out and top stitched. I completed 10 of these to use the whole 1/4 yard of scrap curtain fabric. I ended up with odd sizes of Birdseye left that I am going to repeat this process with another set of fabric for doggie face wipes to keep in a basket by his food area.
The 10 completed kitchen ‘rags’ used about 1.3 yards of Birdseye and 1.3 yards of top fabric from stash.