idaho wrote: How fun, this was my instant reaction to your question, Lorchen, but Marilyn did it for me

I am lucky enough to have an embroidery machine so I digitise motifs and embroider them. I have also in the past made table mats from tea towels and my girls made bags like Becky when they first started to make sewn gifts for grandparents. You get some lovely tea towels in Holland - the Dutch are so talented when it comes to art and craft. Their craft shops are like sweet shops.
Marianne

Dutch traditional tea towels are very nice, i did with them few years ago some shopping bags and gave to people for Christmas, they loved it, and using them all year long .
beautiful quilt lorchen

Absolutly nothin' !!! But this little quilt is just super, Lorchen !!

I work with special needs teenagers in a local school. We have a small room in our department called 'The Retreat'. It is used for meetings, and for children who need a quiet place to calm down, or for work. The room has no windows, the walls are plain grey, and the space is dominated by a dark grey board. For years I have used that board to display quilts/wallhangings, often made especially for that space, in order to make the room more cheerful. I change them about three times a year. So, the latest one, pinned up this morning, has a tea towel at the centre that I was given as a gift some years ago, and just found too nice to use. Some of the kids have already asked other TAs to read these tongue twisters to them, and they found it amusing when the TA stumbled over the words. And this afternoon one of the English teachers stood in front of the board and was copying some of the tongue twisters into a notebook. Here are pictures:





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So, what interesting or unusual things have you done/made with tea towels??