Millie's Tea Towels, Hand Embroidered: Herb Collection (10 to choose f – Convivio Bookworks

Call them what you like: dish towel, tea towel, or, in the dialect of my Italian grandparents, a mappine good cooks need an abundance of towels in the kitchen. My mom, Millie, figures they should be beautiful, and why not? She embroiders each of these by hand. It takes her about a day to finish each one, but she loves the process. The full amount of each sale goes to her, and when I am 94 years old, I hope that I, too, will be coming up with new cottage industries, as Mom did last spring, to keep myself busy. Now Mom is 97, and still enjoying this newly found purpose in life. Mom does each stitch by hand with needle and thread, and once the embroidery is done, she and my sister Marietta launder the towels and iron them, so they

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