I never know what my email holds when I log in every day. It could be any number of things. When I received an email from Amy who has a store on Etsy and soon to be online store Kookery I was delighted. Based in Perth, Western Australia, she has a gorgeous range of tea towels, prints, decals and cards inspired by every day items. The kind of designs that make drying dishes a smile inducing experience. My favourite is the 100% linen “Too many cookbooks, not enough dinners” as I could thoroughly relate to that (and I suspect I’m not the only one! ;) ). Amy will be attending Design Made Trade in Melbourne in July to officially launch Kookery to the wholesale market.
Thanks to Kookery, one lucky Not Quite Nigella reader will win the Kookery Kollection!
4 x 100% Linen tea towel Value = $99.80
- Too many cookbooks not enough dinners (White) RRP $24.95
- Baking is only fun when you lick the spoon (Flax) RRP $24.95
- In Caffeine We Trust (White) RRP $24.95
- To Brie or not To Brie, that is not a question (Flax) RRP $24.95
1 x Market Tote - (Brand new product arriving this week)
- Stock Options RRP $16.95
Greeting card Pack of 12 - RRP $45.00
Total Value: $161.75
For a chance to win all you have to do is describe the teatowel you’re currently using! Simply add your answer as a comment to the story. The competition ends at midnight AEST on the 15th of July, 2012. You can enter this competition once daily and it is open to anyone within Australia.
Best of luck!
Lots of love,
Lorraine
xxx
***The winner is: Sandra McC of Qld***
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100% pure cotton. It dries dishes yes, but I have used other tea towels which have been more moister wicking. White in colour, with green and gold stripes alternating vertically. CA$2, purchased a month ago and it is still going strong.
Though I am currently on the hunt for at least 1 more, as I have nothing to use when it is in the wash.
I love that towel!
Oh, and have you tried Picasa? That’s what I use for my pictures.
The tea towel im currently using is one from my work that says keep calm and eat cake, I couldnt agree more with that saying : )
My tea towel i use the most is an ancient one from my mum, pink & green polkadots
ooh I would absolutely love this prize- the ín caffeine we trust’ tea towel would make the best gift for my friend who is a marvellous chef and avid coffee drinker!!
the tea towel I am currently using is rather unexciting- basic blue and white checks!
Sad to say my current tea towel is a vintage beauty, white with the classic woven blue stripe and a couple of holes where it has worn through or scorched when taking trays out of the oven. love a new one…
Hi Lorraine!
My most used tea towel is bright red with reindeers all over! I’m still hanging on to Christmas!
Lauren
Great linen tea towels, shame they’re not available here in the UK. GG
Ours is an oldie but a goodie. It was my dear old Dad’s and is covered with WWII fighter planes. It is thin, holey and has seen more camping sites and trips to the snow than Bear Grylls could ever hope to imagine.
My tea towel is in a sad state. It’s red and purple check,and it dries well, but it’s not a pretty towel like the gorgeous Kookery ones; particularly love the ‘Baking is only fun when you lick the spoon tea towel’! I can definitely relate to that one.
Love beautiful tea clothes. Over the years friends from overseas have given me some beautiful clothes. I am currently using a souvenir tea towel showing Hamble Le Rice, a little village near to my home town. I emigrated here 42 yrs ago, yet I love these little reminders of a childhood growing up in UK.
I recently bought a beautiful tea towel surprisingly both designed and made in Australia, depicting Australian flowers that I sent to a gardening friend in USA, she loved it.
Would love to win just one of these tea towels, but good luck to everyone!
I love teatowels that make a statement. My current one screams kitch! It is a tourist teatowel from London with all the touristy sites poorly printed. It sits alongside my jane Austen tea towel with handy hints on catching husbands. Not currently in use is another jane Austen teatowel emblazoned with “I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them”.
Mine has pretty cupcakes on it!
What a beautiful photo of the tea towels. My tea towel says, ‘I never meet a carbohydrate I didn’t like’. xx
We recently moved to Albany (southern WA) and was given a tea towel as a gift – its got cows on it! It’s used alot as my tea towel collection is rather non existent ! I do love these though and would give then a good home!
My Nonna used to buy a lot of Australiana items to take back to Italy to give out to people. When she passed away recently and I went through her things I found she’d be buying things that had never made the trip… So I’m using some of these new but atleast 10 year old native Australian flower teatowels.
My current tea towel is a beauty. All tourist and class, it’s one my mum picked up at the Cadbury factory in Tasmania two years ago. Screams tacky. Would love something Kooky!
The tea towel I am using is a red keep calm and carry on one.
I’m something of a tea towel fanatic. I don’t have a lot of money to spend on fancy things, apart from good fresh food, so if I want a treat, a lovely tea towel is an affordable pleasure-inducing item. My current faves are two MasterChef ones as they are over-sized, thick, beautiful quality and like those found in a professional kitchen. While these two are very functional, I treasure linen ones that could well be 40 years old or even more, handed down from my beautiful Nanna who is no longer with us. Using them makes me happy.
How cute are those tea towels! With all the rain I am behind with my washing so we are currently using the Christmas tea towels… No point in only using them once a year I say:-)
My tea-towel is black and orange and looks really ragged and worn. Plus it still smells from me taking it on my last fishing trip…. shudder!
My current teatowel is red and white check. The kind everyone has. Boring!
What a beautiful product. My teatowel is probably 15 years old – linen,well worn, but still does a great job.
These tea towels look beautiful! So soft
The tea towel I am currently using has all these Australian flowers printed all over it and is cotton – does the job perfectly
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Now that is a coincidence! Having recently renovated my entire kitchen from one obviously designed by a man (who wanted, it seems, somewhere to heat up convenience food only), I now have a gorgeous cooking space – but my ratty Woolworths green/white checked d/cloths bring down the tone. Had decided to go buy something a bit more suited to the elevated status of my kitchen but have not seen anything nice enough til you posted this. They are really classy and would look so good hanging off my stove. Please….pretty please?
My bestie and I went on a wedding dress expedition a couple of months ago and stopped at a lovely little GF organic cafe in Mt Hawthorn. SHe found a little gift for me…a gorgeous linen teatowel with an assortment of macarons all over it! Its almost too good to use!
Those tea towels are so cute! My house has an annoying mismatch of tea towels, we have to have about 30 in the drawer plus a million seasonal tea towels for christmas. I’d love to cull them and have nice matching ones, maybe these tea towels could be the start
Sorry mum!
The tea towel that is currently hanging in the kitchen is one that I purchased from the Guide Dogs association, terry towelling with puppies pictured on it, does the job and helps with there fundraising as well, I tend to purchase most of my tea towels from charity organisations. Would love to win this,as I am certain that the “in caffeine we trust” tea towel was designed specifically with me in mind!
ahhh teatowels. An endless source of debate in our household.
I would describe the tea towel we are using as a boomerang teatowel. For no matter how many times I hang it up – it always seems to find its way back to the bench.
Husbands!
?>!
Tea towel? What tea towel??
My current tea-towel (or dish towel as the American’s would call them), is designed with alternating white and blue stripes. It is of average size and cotton. This handy creature hangs by my sink up on the wall so that I can reach it easily. It has ridden in a boat on a long journey to Australia and recently has accompanied us on shorter camping trips. It’s an all purpose, soft, well-used tea towel.
Red and white check
I’m lucky if I can find my teatowels. My partner thinks they make good rags! Maybe he is right because they are always the cheapest I can find. He wont be getting his greasy hands on these ones!
Nice! The one I’m using atm is a white linen one from Chelmsford Cathedral in the UK. It was a gift and I like the Celtic design on it.
A very worn floral number from Aldi!I’ve never gone very fancy for my tea towels! Adore the too many cookbooks one – I totally relate!
A royal blue waffle weave tea towel that my Mum bought me from Provence
Ah too funny and so true! I’m going through tea towels like they’re going out of fashion with a small babe who is thoroughly enjoying her introduction to solids, so the trusty ikea 50c tea towels are getting a hard work out here. They soften up a treat and great for everything!
It’s got permanent brown stains smeared on my beautiful cup cake tea towels.
Morning.
I’m using a tea towel my son’s preschool made with drawings of themselves and the teachers on it. It is blue and white. I really love all the individual drawings soo cute!!
my current tea towel is yellloe and white stripe from Enjoi
thanks maria
My current one is homemade from my mother in law, she has a hand operated weaving loom that she makes lovely material from and she gave us some tea towels on our last visit. It’s a hobby of hers and we think of her when using them.
I would love to say my tea towel is vintage but…
I inherited it from an old cleaning job awhile back. It is tatty and natty and has the strains of a thousand meals all splodged over it. It soaks up water like a pro and beats all my new tea towels. Sadly it is starting to die, there is only so many times you can patch a tea towel before it stops working
Lorriane, I am currently using an old Qantas tea-towel that hangs proudly off my oven handle.
However, my contract comes to an end with Qantas next week and I sadly will need to replace the tea-towel – it just invokes too many memories. My passion for constantly snapping photos of food porn and having either a cup of tea or coffee glued to my hand each day will need to be the new direction I go in to refresh my kitchen, and put some light at the end of the tunnel for me!
All readers, do not take for granted the good times of your lives while they are happening. Embrace them sit down and DRINK that cappuccino with your friends – go for that short walk to the corner cafe at lunch with your work colleagues. Life is just too short to say “what if”.
These lovely Kookery tea towels would be a lovely and timely edition to my kitchen. Thank you for this competition and opportunity.
A white waffle weave that’s seen better days that says “your not behind” as a reminder that housework doesn’t need to be done perfectly, it just needs to get done
some new pretties would be welcomed though!
My darling mother-in-law has always crocheted the edges around the towelling tea towels she would give us. She will be turning 100 in October and only just recently stopped her crocheting.
The last ones she managed to finish were quite touching as she still managed to get them done, though they look very uneven, but you know Lorraine, that is what makes them so unique.
I love to have them in my kitchen drawers and use them daily as it reminds me of the warm, wonderful and thoughtful person she is to our family. I am saving a few for my daughters and son so they have a memory of her and what she made family members.
William Morris Strawberry Thief Print on Linen (small how where a generous guest decided to assist with the dishes and cut it with a knife)…now faded with use – my favourite one! But Kookery could soon be a new favourite!
When I went on holidays last year (London, France and new York), i kept buying teatowels. Great travel buy as they are light and dont take up much space. And of course, theyre useful! The one I’m using at the moment is a beautiful monet one from France. The colours are just beautiful.
The tea towel I am currently using is a ether large blue and white check woven one, not very exciting but quite serviceable.
Its a copy of a portrait of Richard III from the National Portrait Gallery in London – its getting rather tired but sadly they dont make them anymore.
Shamefully, it’s one I bought at the supermarket about 10 years ago. It’s so old that I can’t even read what WAS printed on it and it is fraying at the edges. That’s why I need a pretty new one!
Love reading all your Posts.
So fun hearing people’s reaction.
I just love linen, a little luxury in in our daily rituals. Also love vintage and have a few pasted down from my Grandmother.
Good luck everyone. Amy from Kookery
I am using a pastel green, blue and violet tea towel I think I purchase from IKEA many many moons ago. Great to see a local WA business taking off !!
My mum has always bought me a linen tea towel every year. It has made me appreciate the quality of linen, I am currently using the one with apples from her trip to Tasmania . They are my treasured possessions,I would love to share the prize with her!
I have collected towels for decades. Oft, being overseas, it has been the lightest and easiest item to layer in a suitcase, later to remember a town or a shop or an experience. Lately I have held a weathereye on welfare organization shops: like UNICEF, Oxfam, SEDA etc: two birds with the one stone – one gets an attractive item for the kitchen and hopefully helps a cause. My present one is an attractive mystery very similar to the fun and beautiful one shown on the post – also of a neutral colour with vines, leaves and fruit interwoven in darker shades of beiges and browns. Since I do not have a dishwasher, towels are always in use and mine are getting weary of their job. Love the elegant new Kookery collection – would absolutely adore to test run
! [Oh, still use a lot of cards: yep, short of those also, honestly!!].
the one I am using at the moment is a cupcake one from my grandmother who saw it and had to get it for me
But i must say I love in caffeine we trust so so true!
Mine is from the Guinness Storehouse in Ireland. It matches my oven mitt, and reminds me of happy holidays!
That is so true. I could entertain breakfast, lunch and dinner and snacks in between and I wouldn’t get through my cookbooks in a life time.
Right now I have a lime green waffle hand towel and a lime green and white tea towel with a pattern that looks a bit like suns.
Hello, mine is blue with tea pot and tea cup. Thank you, Kate
Ooh those teatowels do look absolutely delightful! Motivation to do some housework!
my current tea towels are charity ones bought from the heart foundation. Not as trendy as these ones but definitely worth the money! 
Today’s is a souvenir teatowel from the Sound of Music Singalong, with a picture of the curtains Maria uses to make playclothes for the children! Random, huh??
(I lurrve souvenir teatowels, but I can’t always bring myself to spoil their pristine beauty.)
I’m currently using a vintage tea towel from the 1970s that has red sunset, gum trees and kangaroos on it. My nanna got it when visiting Melbourne in 1979, the year after I was born. I’ve only just got the tea towel though as my nanna put it in a glory box for me and my mum just gave me the whole collection, now that I’ve moved into my first house. It’s extra special as my nanna passed away 20 years ago, so getting a collection of lovely linens as well as a card from her after all this time was just magical.
The tea towels that I use are heirlooms from my mom and grandma. They are mostly floral prints and very meaningful to me. Maybe it is time for some new ones to pass on to my daughters.
♥♥♥
Sue
It’s green. It has cartoon reindeers prancing along the hem. It says “merry christmas merry christmas merry christmas” repeatedly and without punctuation.
I am so embarrassed.
Since my mother-in-law passed away I have been using her lovely old linen tea towels that were collected from all over the world. They are a joy to use and I think of her everytime I use them … everyday
Gorgeous Kookery Kollection you have there Lorraine. For me, I love my dining experience to be a bit on the quirky side. The theme of my tea towels is loosely based on the seven deadly sins: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. It’s kind of fitting when you think about the themes in terms of food, cooking and everything that can possibly go wrong (or right) in the kitchen (or the bench)!
The collection was purchased during a trip to Louisville, Kentucky a few years ago. It has a very dark gothic style and uses bold colour schemes, with the word representing the sins sewn on each of the silk towels in Gothic fonts. They may not be to everyone’s tastes (especially for my parent-in-laws when they come over for a visit), but I love the dry humour they bring to dinner conversations with like minded friends when I serve them their “just desserts”. This Kookery Kollection, with its equally “kuirky” taste and earthy colours would complement well with my unique dining style!
I love the tea-towel I’m using but I’ve just about loved it to death! It was a beautiful white linen towel with black birds on it, sadly now the white is not so white and the birds have faded but it’s still my favorite!
The current teatowel is a plain red and white checkered teatowel- apart from being boring it is also extremely annoying because we hang it on our handle but there is no actual loop to hang it on so it constantly falls off!
I love Kookery!!
Right now my kitchen towel is actually a hand towel meant for the bathroom… not sure how it got there, I blame the hubby!
I keep all the ones with drawings my grandchildren have done at school “for best” and am using $1 ones from Ikea – which I must say aren’t too bad for drying, but you wouldn’t have them on show!
I am currently using a Blue and gold stripe tea-towel, which is on in a set of three good linen ones. I always buy new tea-towels when I move home to set my new kitchen off perfectly and homely
Diamond Jubilee T. Towel by Cath Kidson, sent by my daughter from the UK along with the Jubilee tablecloth, I love them
LOL I use a gazillion tea towels every day. Wipe my hands, rake off the bench. Dry dishes.. I have towels for everything.
I LOVE the too many cookbooks not enough dinners towel.. that’s a cracker!
The tea towel I’m currently using is a linen one given to me by a friend and contains scenes of Sydney which is special to me because I lived and worked there for just over a year.
The tea-towel I am currently using is 100% linen. It is of indeterminable age. Though the frequent washing has made it super soft & it dries the dishes well. It did have a picture on it – once upon a time.
IT’S STILL GOOD!!!
The tea towel I am using has come from don’t remember where, has white and brown checks, has black burnt holes in it, and does the job beautifully. My husband is constantly threatening to throw it out, so I hide it when I have company.
I too have a relic from the past, my mother’s 100% cotton checked tea towel.
A faded purple one that is looking a bit worse for wear. I have a pretty sorry tea towel collection, mostly hand me downs/casts off from old flatmates.
It’s an olde worlde, cutsy souvenir tea towel Mum brought back from England (made in china). It has never faded or stained, has no holes, matches nothing and I feel doomed to use it for the rest of time!
The tea towel I am currently using is a Christmas one. Yes I know that it is now June, but I have a very limited supply of tea towels that aren’t full of holes so I would love the opportunity to increase my supply.
An ancient linen one with a picture of a red London bus on it, which my mother bought on a holiday in the UK in 1967!
Oh, how absolutely gorgeous! My mother always had the best quality tea towels and I have inherited this love of fine quality from her. I would love to win this prize. Currently I am using my favourite tea towels with have stripes and embroidered with blue wrens, and there is one with a green tree frog too.
Well… I threw all of mine out as they were all old and tatty- so I desperately need some nice new (kookery) ones!
Lets just say that my current tea-towel and about 20 others like it, I’ve had since I was about 9, sat and waited in my glory box until I married, is cotton with 1970′s stripe pattern,thanks Mum! Good Luck, Amy.
i use my towel to clean the counter top
A christmas tree tea towel, I bought it cheaply in the boxing day sales!
My current tea towel has a rather faded picture of flowers…
I’ve just read Antonietta’s comment. Me too!
A Sunshine Powdered Milk tea towel with a cute cow on it is one of my in use towels at the moment. A very nice hand me down from a friend who was moving a long way away.
The tea towels I am currently using are faded hand-me-downs from mum
Would love to win these awesome ones!
I think it was green and white check at one stage now more like green and grey as my husband seems to have used it to wipe his hands after fixing machinery. And with a few holes to complete the look! I could really do with some nice new ones please!
My favorite tea towel belonged to my darling grandma who died 15 years ago. Every time I use it I remember her.
My current tea towel has a big hole in it as well as a big curry stain on it & needs replacing – one day.
I have just moved to my own place and have no tea towels yet. I use paper towels, at least they have flowers on them.
I keep getting tea towels..the colored checked ones from rellies which I still currently use but I take out my nice country road ones when guests come!
A christmas one with reindeer cause it’s all I could find!
I have inherited my mums travel teatowels. You know the ones, the ones that you buy at the souvenier shops wherever you go, with native animals; or elvis; or trains; you get the idea. Always makes me stop and think how much my mum made the most of her travelling and I am now the beholder of her treasured memories
An Irish linen beauty with a recipe for marmalade on it that my dear Mum gave me. Great for drying and inspiring!!
I go through phases of using gorgeous print tea towels to wrap Christmas presents. I figure everyone needs a new tea towel every now ans then and it’s more useful than wrapping paper. The one I’m using now is one that was left over from last years wrapping and I just couldn’t help myself but to start using it. It’s a mushroom, white and bright red striped one. These ones would make extra special gift wrap for some lucky family members for this Christmas (of course it does mean I’m limited in what I buy as gifts, it has to fit inside a tea towel!)
On a freezing winter’s night I find myself seated round a campfire near the beautiful Flinder’s Ranges in South Australia. While on a 5 day road trip to deliver a car to a remote aboriginal community in SA where I work, I had failed to take into account that it is a holiday weekend. There is no room at any inn, so camping out in subzero temperatures is my only choice.
Imagine my surprise, when my friend Judith, with whom you spent several days indulging in the gustatory delights of France, forwarded me, by email, a copy of your indulgent escapade in Nice(OK, so it was your birthday, and you’re travel writers, so I guess that’s the sort of thing you just HAVE to do). Judith kindly thought I might get some vicarious pleasure from reading and drooling over what you managed to eat in a day or two.
So engrossed was I in the article, I managed to burn the sausages on the fire. But being a sensible Aussie girl, I had a nice bottle of excellent red wine (and some French Butter Caramels which Judith had given me).
To cut a long story short, there was no need to wash up as the burnt food was offered to the fire.
Which is just as well, as I realize I didn’t have a tea towel, and thus am quite unable to describe the tea towel I am using.
Which is the reason I am entering this competition, written from my iPhone over a campfire in subzero temperatures! I really do NEED a tea towel!
Living in a serviced apartment currently I have no say in the delightfully boring green check tea-towels :-/
I am using a tea towel from Vanautu that my children bought for me when they visited their uncle.
I love tea towels and friends buy me souvenir ones of their travels. Currently using gorgeous one with all English wild flowers.
Currently it’s my tea towel that enjoys highest rotation with the stylised map of the Paris underground Metro. Overall it always me reminds me of my trip there and I enjoy spotting familiar individual stations.
Hmmm, it won’t sound too appetising, but it’s spattered in stains and has that really awful ‘old teatowel’ stink to it!
I’m using hospital tea towels! The ones they use in catering and restaurants! They are a white linen with blue stripes around the outside! I think they would have been collected and dry cleaned by a paid laundering company if they were still being used in their “rightful original place”!
You see someone gave them to my Mum, and my Mum gave them to me! I think she would have used them if her conscience would allow her but it didn’t for some reason so she gave them to me! I have never asked the full story behind them but probably would have if it wasn’t for the fact that they dry so well! I’m afraid if I know the truth my conscience won’t allow me to use them so I don’t want to know! Then again I might be assuming to much and there really mightn’t be some big story behind their origin at all! All the same they have lasted and dried well for many years. They probably should be trashed, because they are a bit tattered and thin but I can’t find a tea towel that performs as well as they do even in their geriatric state!!
We have a beautiful linen tea towel on our yacht it is white with delph blue writing and a perfect artistic fish on it. The word ‘salmon’ is emblazed across the border and I would love some more tea towels to brighten up both the boat and our kitchen.
Cheers,
Amanda
My teatowel is from 1988, with a calendar and a picture of Australia on it. I’m always shocked that it’s still going, it’s outlasted many newer ones
My current tea towels are Christmas ones that I bought as a gift and never gave them, they are really cute but not very appropriate. I would like to have some grown-up ones!
I am currently using my most favourite tea towel! Purchsed from a quaint little gift store in my favourite place in the world, Manarola on the Cinque Terre. It is 100% cotton and authentically Italian made. I love that it is bright and colourful (mainly the patriotic Italian reds, greens and whites), it is an oversized pictorial map of the the Cinque Terre (for anyone who doesn’t know, Cinque Terre means ‘Five lands’ as there are five main little towns that make up the coast line). I think it is the most beautiful place in the world and every time I use this tea towel it reminds me of the absolutely amazing pasta we ate every day in Manarola! I can almost taste our favourite trofie pesto and the simplicty of the napolitana when I am drying my dishes, it is the best pasta I have ever experienced! Who knew a tea towel could hold such special memories!
I am a teatowel hoarder. I cannot resist a beautiful teatowel and these are no exception. They are just divine. Todays teatowel is white with gorgeous patchwork birdies stitched onto the teatowel topped off with a blue stitched border, it makes me smile every time I look at it.
My towel is brown with white stripes on it
I am missing out on these wonderful tea towels in the US.I knew I should’ve moved to Australia…
I have an old tea towel with roses on it that used to belong to my grandmother, it hangs on the side of the cabinet above the sink. I use one that I got from my daughter many years ago that she found at a church sale with a holly pattern border. I love the sets shown, adore the “baking is only fun when you lick the spoon” as I get so many offers for help once the mixer starts!
I won’t describe one of my tea towels, since I’m out of range for this contest (Canada). Too bad, as I would really love one of those beautiful tea towels. If I ever find myself in Perth…
When you stop and think about it, your tea towel is the one thing in your kitchen that you always rely on having ready and available and at arms length. My ‘old reliable’ is a pale yellow and white waffle weave. I think it actually used to be golden but time and lots of loving use have taken their toll.It’s actually here with me now on my desk as I type, crumpled and damp from drying this mornings coffee cups. On closer scrutiny it appears to have stains from last nights bolognaise on one corner and other inexplicable marks on one side. Looks like it’s time for it to go in for a good hot soak!
2 words :
“Oh My!”
I am currently using a tea towel from my work which says keep calm and eat cake : )
My current tea towel is as thin as a tissue, I need a new one (with style) badly!!
It has tooo many oil stains on it – not very attractive in the kitchen!
Oh dear, its a thin linen ladybug printed one, with several pin holes through it and shamefully a sprinkling of black spots on one hem. I know its silly, but its a ‘favourite’. Thin enough to soak up water quickly, but not spread it, and cheerful with cute ladybugs to keep me smiling when faced with a mountain of dishes at midnight
Ragie hole’s need to trade in my tea towel.
Cute tea towels! My fav is “to Brie or not to Brie, that is not a question”! I’ve been told.
My tea towel is a wedding invite from a friend! She and her cute hubby printed their wedding invite in tea towels! Definitely made sure their wedding is remembered everytime I do the dishes. Hehe.
Hi
My current tea towel is in a poor state of affairs.
It is an old blue and white check that has seen better days and needs replacing. Just does the job at hand
Cheers
Wendy
green, 100% cotton and starting to wear thin!
A vintage green souvenir linen tea towel that I picked up in an op shop. It has kangaroos on it and says – Greetings from Darwin N.T. I love it.
Pretty standard blue and white checked cotton tea towel. It does the job!
The current tea towel adorning my stove is a vintage one that I have of my grandmother’s… beautiful 1975 calendar from Paris.
Currently using a waffle linen tea towel with kettle and cups, which is very kitsch. More the better I say! I am the strange person who says ‘get me a tea towel for Christmas!’ I just love them. Ok, back to cooking.
My husband just bought me some new teatowels that are terrible, even after being washed they leave fluff all over the dishes and seem to repel water!
I’m currently using a Women’s Weekly 1950′s tea towel, with a woman who looks like something out of Mad Men on it, the whole 1950s flary-dress with immaculate make up to cook dinner in look. I could really use a more PC, post-modern Kookery tea towel set to catch up with the times!
A little thread bare from over love and over use. With a leopard print panel I fell in love with over a decade ago, it’s the best drying of all my tea towels. I just can’t bare to part with it.
A gorgeous looking home made linen tea towel, all the way from a little Latvian village (a gift from the in-laws). A frustrating little beastie it is too, no matter how many washes or times I use it, it still will not dry properly! It’s like they waterproofed it before handing it over!!
An enormous green and white checkered tea towel, that smells like vomit. Someone wiped up milk with it & didn’t put it in the wash, and that someone wasn’t me.
It’s a typical-looking kitchen tea towel with red and white checks. I think I need to source some new ones that look more more interesting, in order to inspire the cook in me.
My current tea towel is a souvenir one from the church where we were married in Braidwood, NSW (9 years ago!). We bought the entire remaining stock to give as gifts to all of our guests but had a few leftover for ourselves! It’s a cute reminder of a wonderful day.
I’d love the prize one that says ” in caffeine we trust”, that’s very cool!
lol the tea towels i’m currently using are of mostly checked but definitely looking very shabby! love the quirky sayings, def. keep in mind for pressies
The teatowel could be true of my teatowel collection,too many teatowels, not enough drying. The one in use at the moment is, MODERN ART = I COULD DO THAT + YEAH,BUT YOU DIDN’T.
Before I married, my Mother embroidered 7 linen teatowels with captions to the pictures.
The Engagement, The Bride, The Groom,Honeymoon, The New House etc The story was that as she worked on one, it had to be thrown under the chair or sofa if I came into the room & maybe stayed there for the rest of the evening.
I have used these till they were so threadbare & holey they no longer held water well. 2 remnant ones remain because I cannot bear to discard them.
Too many cookbook not enough dinners is totally me, hahahaha! I’m super OCD with my kitchen so I have some cheap old tea towels from Freedom but I make sure I wash them everyday
blue, stripey, old and smelly
I have had my tea towels for 15 yrs and still has a drawing on one from my now young adult son,they are pretty thread bare but still useable,I cant bring myself to throw them out,I do intend to go buy some new ones at woolworths soon but will keep my old ones.
Today its a teatowel from Rye in the UK – I enjoy buying teatowels when we’re on holiday, always brings back memories when they are used.
A pack of three with ducks on them we bought from the supermarket….not the greatest but we got them half price.
Sorry I’ve been a AOL, no excuses, just busy!
My tea towels are pain white, I think they call them potato sacks. Nothing fancy but they dry well and I can bleach them clean. Sad face because I can’t win these gorgeous towels. But then again, they sure are too pretty to use.
Mine is a teatowel my motherinlaw gave me, which is hopeless as it doesnt actually dry anything
Im using a black tupperware tea towel that has shrunk in the wash and is all un-even but it works hahaha
My teatowel is one bought at an art and crafts market and is filled with chooks. Good to look at it but it does not dry anything.
We are using cloth nappies (never been used, before you turn up your nose). Nice big white super wipers, they can be bleached easily if you spill anything on them like red wine and are super absorbent!
Cotton tea towel with red and white checks. Pretty typical but does the job.
Here at the House of Novelty Teatowels, I was using the 2009 cat calendar teatowel before my 4 year old snaffled it to gaze at the pictures reverently. So I’m now using the naff-scenes-of-Ireland one. Quality.
The primary school that my little brother and sister go to got every one of the students to draw a portrait of themselves. They created tea towels from the drawings, so I am currently using a tea towel with hundreds of obscure looking faces on it! A nice reminder of home while I am away at uni. However, before I left my Dad was using it to dry the blender blades and one went straight through the tea towel! Luckily it was not the face of either of my siblings… These tea towels would make a great addition to my sparse uni apartment!
My current tea towel is blue and white stripes with a little embroided flower on it…It was one of the many teatowels used as wrapping paper by my italian inlaws for our engagement/wedding presents…such a practical way to wrap things, I find myself doing the same thing
Ah my teatowel is hideous – black and white stripes on a crinkly material – it barely dries the dishes. This is why I am in desperate need of some new, stylish and effective tea towels!
My current tea towel is an old 1970s style linen with australian animals on it – given to me by my grandma when I left home. She gives me one identical one every year
I need this because my tea towels are the boring old chequered style currently red and white checks, and not the wide fancy ones but the small nasty ones. Love the sayings I think they are all applicable to me. Xxx
my tea towel is one my kids bought when they went on holidays to hawaii and it says we went to hawaii and we got you this tea towel nothing else just the tea towel my hope for a snow cone with hawaii magestically in the snow was not to be….
My tea towels have red and white checks. I need new ones because some are starting to go ragged on me!
Hi, I love these and in my kitchen they would all get their moment in the sun. My everyday teatowels are some I bought from Ikea which aren.t too bad but when I.m drying something special I often remember to pull out one of the linen tea towels my beloved Grandmother from Austria gave me with little teapots emboidered down the sides. Bless my Baka xx
Today its printed with the Union Jack…
Let me premise the story with the fact that I love this lady (have never met her), but love her to death, somewhere along the line she is a family friend or long lost aunt of an aunt, she must be in her 90′s, we exchange letters every once in a while, but with out fail every christmas, birthday, my engagement, and I think Easter one year, this lady sends me a tea towel from England with an English motif of some description – sometimes they make it to the cleaning bag, sometimes hanging over the oven door! But I think of her every time open the linen cupboard door to take out a fresh one and see my little stack of presents!
So whilst I Im not short of a tea towel, I would love this gorgeous Kookery pack!
Stripey (blue and white) and covered with chocolate cake batter stains
I love tea towels! I currently have three on the go, one is a beautiful To Dry For (www.todryfor.com) number which has a picture of a teacup on a wave and says ‘Storm in a Teacup’ on it.
The other tea towel I’m using is from the Royal Wedding last year and it’s got Kate and Will’s beaming nuptual faces on it, unfortunately that tea towel got hidden away whilst dirty and Kate’s got a bit of a stain on her face, opps!
The other tea towel is a London one my mum bought back from holidays to the UK for me and it’s got big red busses on it!
I can never have too many gorgeous tea towels!
Some al cheapo towel from Melbourne’s Dimmeys which doesnt absorb water all that well
I’m using crappy old tea towels as I unable to bring myself to use the gorgeous embroidered ones I bought from Anthropolgie in London
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?navAction=jump&id=24832453&parentid=SEARCH_RESULTS&color=095
Maybe these Kookery tea towels could help me out!
Those tea towels are gorgeous – almost too pretty to use! Currently we have a woven green and white cotton tea towel, that I have sewn a little hanging loop onto. We must have bought a set at some stage as we also have red/white and blue/white.
My current tea towel came free with a Woman’s weekly magazine – a lovely vintage print. I love the Kookery ones, especially the too many cookbooks!
Im using some tea towels that my grandmother has crocheted the edges. She’s too cuite. We get a bundke each year but they are all falling to bits lol
Oh dear – I REALLY, Really would love to win those tea towels, but I am a little embarrassed to tell about the tea towel I’m currently using – it’s very old and tattered and looks like my twin girls might have been using it for “cooking” in the sandpit! I promise that if I win this pack the tea towels will stay well out of reach of my kids – in fact they are so gorgeous I’d probably decorate my kitchen with them – especially the too many cookbooks one. I love it.
probably a tea towel from sams wharehouse a cheap shop a 6 pack for 5 bucks the leave lint all over the dishes and dont seem to dry them properley
I am currently using a blue and white plaid Ikea tea towel, I buy them in bunches of three and love them.
has a cockatoo on it with bottlebrush! I got it for free in a remo warehouse sale…
Ha ha, last night I stepped into my partners studio and was reminded that I DID buy myself a fabulous linen tea towel last year printed with a musical score and the words MAESTRO CHEF. Mister Bower-bird promptly claimed it as his own and he uses it as a cover for his keyboard!!
With it’s faded yet still beautiful blue design of the famous Willow Pattern, my well used and still absorbent favourite tea towel takes pride of place on its hook. I love to dream of the lovers escaping over the bridge only to be found later and turned into doves to be together for ever. Sniff.
Current tea towel is a beautiful Anna Chandler Design!
I’m using my Italy Map teatowel that bought last year when I was in Sorrento. Just a little reminder each day of such a beautiful and fun part of the world and the good times we had there (and all the lemon products we tried!).
Whatever tea towels I am using I always buy good quality or they are just not big enough or absorbent enough.
Just chucked a mass of T towels &cloths in the washing machine as it’s the first sunny day we’ve had for ages. -like to wash all T. towels together & dry them in the sun (hope it lasts!) so I’m down to a pretty basic commercial red check one -well worn & burn’t. Just got a new kitchen, so would love new T towels to look glam!
What gorgeous tea towels! …my current tea towel, well… I have extremely patriotic grandparents who feel that with every trip abroad a good old Scottish tea towel makes the perfect souvineer.. My linen closet is chock-a-block with about 50! I currently wash up whilst reading the recipe for haggis. Lol
Regular terry towelling with a yellow duck print
Cotton with Pink Windmills, a gift from my Oma. She would always bring me teatowels from Holland whenever she took a trip there. Its getting stained and worn, but it reminds me of her each time I use it. xox
I am using cheap terry towelling tea towels as the kids think you can use them to wipe the floor and put back on the hanger. The good ones are hanging on the oven door and they DO NOT touch under any cercumstances. When they leave home I get out the linen tea towel as I love the feel and look of them
Incredibly tatty oranged checked one – desperately need a new one!
i have a few old hand me down teatowels that i got from my nanna before she oassed away but i need some new ones
So embarrassing!!
I am currently using a ratty old Valentine’s tea towel.
It has a faded picture of a floppy dog saying, “I WOOF U!”
Incredibly tatty oranged checked one – desperately need a new one!
like the cloth of an old fashioned jam jar!
It is a gorgeous one I bought last year at the Eumundi markets – but overuse is wearing it thin and holey – time for an update!
My teatowel is an incredibly tatty oranged checked one – desperately need a new one!
I had to ask my 88 year old Mum for some new teatowels for Christmas ! Just have to have nice looking ones hanging on the oven door when visitors come. My fav has cows wearing crazy hats saying “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them” – appropos as my kids call me ‘moo-moo’ !
Today I’m using a beautiful blue towelling tea towel, a gift from my 3 year old grandson. He so loves cooking/ baking and has his own navy blue checked apron and hat! Time spent with him is even more precious as he was born almost 10 weeks premmie and spent 7 weeks in NICU. So you see that tea towel is so special like him!
I have a collection of old tea towels bought at opshops over the years. Today I am using one from Ireland. It is pink linen with happy orange flowers. Definitely from the 70s.
I’m using a tea towel with black & white sheep on it which I bought in New Zealand & it reminds me of the wonderful holiday I had there
It’s black and white striped. For my black and white kitchen. It’s really black and white how I feel about tea-towels. I need some COLOUR!
makes my tea towels look like sloppy thin rags
Hi Lorraine! I have many…not your ‘couturier’ variety of course like your beautiful folded Linen teatowels from the Kookery…just dying to own one of those!!
I am currently using a free cotton one that I got from my electricity company. I would love something to replace this daggy cloth and spruce up my kitchen!
ABC red and white chef’s cooking imagery on the tea towel, really nice absorbent material
and makes me smile
I mainly use my Country Road ones when guests are around and the everyday tea towel is from Ikea! The Kookery Kollection teatowls are too gorgeous to use, I’d frame at least 2 of them to hang in my kitchen!! If I don’t win the Kookery Kollection pack I will definityely be buying some from them!!!
I use a bright orangle cotton towel with a tartan pattern.
I am using a tea towel purchased at the British Museum on a overseas trip. It is made of cotton with a copy of a painting of Mount Fuji, Japan. Everytime I use it , I start thinking of all the places I want to travel to.
I use 100% cotton tea towels.
Recently bought micro fiber ones to try out, they are good but linen one are good to clean glasses. I always use nice teatowels for simple gifts. They are often approciated.
100% linen, Scottish wild flowers. A well used, well loved gift.
Sadly the best way to describe my tea towel is worn out. Clean but a few holes!
Ugly, sad and bedraggled, our current teatowel is one of those unfortunate mother-in-law gifts that has to be on display despite the fact that it doesn’t fit with your tastes or your decor at all! These, on the other hand, are GORGEOUS!
My daughter is currently travelling around Europe on her gap year and spent 3 months in Italy. She sent me a tea towel with the map of Italy on it. I use and think of my daughter.
Just renovated the kitchen after 37 years, have a dish washer now, but find I still have a use for the tea towel as there are water drops on the plastic pieces sometimes and who doesn’t use a tea towel to dry their hands? My old stripe one is getting thin, these ones Lorraine would fit in so well as my new kitchen has white cupboards,black bench-top and silver grey trimmings. These would look superb.
I am sadly using a teatowel that was given to me as a “gift” it has sailing boats on it, looks tragic in the kitchen, but it’s cotton and actually works, I do desperately need something a bit more stylish, or at the very least without the sailing boats.
WE HAD SOME SCOTTISH ONE FROM A 1974 WORLD TRIP BUT THEY RATHER LOOK LIKE THE TATYTERED SAILS FROM AN OLD PIRATE SHIP HANGING ON THE CLOTHESLINE. THANKYOU.
The Tea Towel Im currently using is a colourful one from New Zealand with Pink Blue Green Yellow squares and Kiwi Birds on it!
I currently use no tea towel
I have just moved out and have been making do with a face washer.
“you wash, I’ll dry” is the writing on my current tea towel.. I love it but it’s totally worn out, it needs to be retired unfortuantly..
the Tea Towel in use at the moment is a cotton tea towel but unfortunately my bird decided that she liked it better with holes, so now my partner always says so your using your holey towel again, please help me with some new towels.
You are obviously all very neat kitchen professionals. I can never make do with one tea-towel. Always use at least four each time I cook. Very messy! All my tea towels are the checked variety that you get at Coles – handy but misshapen, stained and still not soaking up liquids properly – even after the umpteenth use.
embarrasingly my tea towels are a supermarket special, not matching nor do they dry – great for picking up hot dishes though, and a good accidental fire starter
cotton, many years old with the typical kitchen stains on it
Old oily burnt blue and white tea towel
I have 4 100% cotton teatowels purchased at a small shop for $2 each. In need of some more!
I use a tea towel that was a gift to my family when I was in primary school. I am now 29 years old. Times must be tough, lol!
Light brown checkered teatowel with dark brown and white checks. Boring!
Black and White checked, soft and beautifully stitched. It is machine washable and durable!
These are so pretty! The tea towel I’m currently using is bright green! I received it as a Christmas gift three years ago. The colour is a bit faded but it still does the job!
Sigh, bought from IKEA, a cheapest choice as we need to spent a lot of $ when we moved into new place… Boring…
checked and shabby!
My tea towel is an old one with our surname printed on it that has been passed down through the generation (i know not the typical thing tobe passed down) but has special meaning to it. It is cotton, floral pattern with bright colours through it (not so bright anymore)
I have a checked set I bought from Kmart, with 2 red, 2 green, 2 yellow and 2 navy ones. Dull but not ugly.
I’m currently using a green one and a red in the kitchen and a navy in the office.
A blue and white one I got two years ago when I moved out of home from Factory that is ready for the bin! I am in desperate need of some new ones!
My tea towel used to be white on one side, frangipani print on the other and made of terry toweling. Now it is grey on one side, with the faint outline of flowers on the other and malts its fluff over everything it touches. Very attractive.
My current teatowel is well used and super versatile. It’s been used for the obvious, and then as a pot holder, oven mitt, bandage and many other things I may not even know about.
It’s also an IKEA special- 99c, offwhite with a red border. They really last the distance
When I got a fresh one out the other night I was pleased that one of my favourite tea towels was next in line. We have had it for around 12 years, the time we have owned our house. When I hung it on the rack I noticed that it was wearing very thin in between the patterns. It may be time to retire this one to the rag pile, but luckily we purchased it in two colours and the other one is still going strong.
My poor old tea towels are washed out faded and do not absorb I would love some beautiful tea towels
My teatowel, although washed, doesn’t look clean. I get annoyed at how little time it takes to get them dirty, and looking grotty. Time for a nice new, good quality teatowel for my kitchen.
The glad rag I use is a 1970′s darling. All terry towelling with brown and orange flowers on what was once probably a cream background. My grandmother owned this when she ran a grand old hotel in country Victoria. Somehow it ended up in the packing boxes and was always a fixture in her kitchen. A makeshift oven mit here, a pot mat there… Cleaning the children’s faces, wiping up spilt milk. My mum ended up with it (a take-home parcel of scones, probably) and she accitentally set fire to the corner of it on the gas stove one Easter. When I left home I nicked it “to pack delicate items” with. It’s patchy, embarrassing and full of conspicuous holes, Like most family history.
I am ready to “throw in the towel” as, after years of hard work, it’s ability has simply “dried up”!
I am using a tea towel I picked up in Paris as I don’t really “do” souvenirs…it has a recipe for foie gras on it in French (which I cant speak) but I just had to have it! My suitcase was full of tea towels and aprons and plates and knives and ceramic yoghurt pots and terrine’s and and and….
My tea towel that I am using, I hold near and dear.
It is to be precise, a Rottnest Island souvenir.
Everytime I use it, I am reminded in every way.
It is time to book our next family holiday!!
Have just turned my 24 year old tea towel into a peg holder, so need a new one now and this one from Kookery would be PERFECT.
My current tea towel is a classic terry towelling one, printed with a jolly little design of bees and honeycombe, with a hand-crocheted edging in yellow done by my mum. You just don’t get those ones any more.
It’s plain and black and a tad boring compared to these ones! However, it’s somehow the only one I’ve kept out of my husband’s clutches — he loves to use them as rags UGH!
My tea towel is a sorry sad little piece of fabric. It sports a very uncool Hawaiian design and it doesn’t even dry things very well! Actually … I should ditch it. Thanks.
Well……..its an old cloth nappy eek!
I’m a garage sale groupie and cannot leave behind any old gorgeous linen that I find. Hence my teatowels are pre-loved but quality linen. They always have a story….great aunt Esthers favourite. I like to think that they live again in my kitchen.
The current tea towel, is a pale green one that I have had for far too many years and have a few stains I just cant get rid off.
my tea towels are old and looks like its been used by my grandmother
old and tired
A plain blue and white tea towel .. I could so do with a new Kookery one.
I’m ashamed to say that I am using the most boring teat towel in the history of tea towels – a a blue & white check. But it does the job. I obviously need to update.
I purchased this ‘wonderful’ microfibre tea towel from a linen party, only it’s the ugliest thing you’ve ever seen, I only use it when no ones around. And now all my sons have left home, have been promising to buy something that would look ‘nice’ to hang over the oven door. , still have not done it.
Ragged Souvenirs from my Mum,
She got a new kitchen and hers matching, looking yum!
Mine are made of bamboo – very absorbent, a bit stained!
I am currently using my Christmas tea towel. The kids love Christmas baking and since it is holidays, wet and cold, we would do some baking. The Christmas tea towel makes it feel more special.
Does paper towels considered as tea towels? Yes or no that’s what I got!
a raggy old piece of what used to be a lovely terry towel dishrag with cows on it 10 years ago
A nasty old checked thing, thin as gauze and probably from my mother-in-law!
Oh would love to win some fresh new teatowels and these are just fab. My current tea towel in use at the moment is a souvenior from France with a recipe for Boulabaise. I love it !
Its a 15 year old black and white teatowel. It has holes and looks well worn, but the imperfections are beautiful as they tell a story. The teatowel will forever be treasured as it was a gift from my late grandma Jessie.
My current tea towel is a $1 IKEA tea towel which used to be white with a red border. I’ve been trying my best over the last few years to stain it, tear it, discolour it to justify buying a new one but it doesn’t seem to be working!
I’m using a classic tourist teatowel it has a map of australia on it with the state names. Go Aussie.
Believe it or not but I am currently using one of Amy’s unbleached, 100% linen tea towels with the slogan “Baking is only fun when you lick the spoon”. My mum bought it for me recently and I L.O.V.E it! Would be fabulous to add a few more to the drawer to make a collection.
Was just washing up after lunch and smiling AT my tea towel. Remembered this competition: wondered whether I was too late! NO! Well, my wellworn one depicts a little blonde cherub of a girl, sitting on a kitchen stool with a bowl almost as big as her ladyship on her knees. It obviously has had cookie dough in it, ’cause with furrowed brow she is busy licking the wooden spoon, absolute bliss on her little face
! Well, I guess I would look the same if some of those elegant towels came my way . . .
A terry-towelling, super absorbant one with an unremarkable picture which I cannot recall at the moment.
Well, it’s a little worse for wear, has a little burn hole and doesn’t match anything in my kitchen
it has served me well but I think it’s earned time off…….forever
The favourite tea towel in the house, is from my daughters grade 5 fundraiser, when she was 11 years old. The towel has drawn images by each classmate, which were then printed on to a linen cloth tea towel. The daughter is now 17, and when the tea towel is in her hand on the odd occasion! She studies the images on the towel and says “OMG l had plaits and freckles”.
I’m using one of my boyfriend’s tea towels, so who knows how long it’s been around. It leaves lime green fluff all over every dish I dry.
I’m currently using my favourite one that belonged to my Nana, it has a few holes and ragged edges, but I love it.
I went bought these gorgeous blue tea towels, but they wont dry my dishes, so i and using my old holey checker tea towels, and try to hang then behind the blue one, which is only decorative lol
A white tea-towel I bought from Brittany with colourful illustrations of cheerfully, traditionally dressed of Breton women. It is my favourite because it reminds me of my wonderful holiday.
I’m a sucker for a tacky tourist tea towel and have quite the collection. My current favourite though is one from Edinburgh with a Haggis recipe and covered in tartan, bagpipes etc…deliciously tasteless but gives me a smile every time!
My tea towel was bought from the R.S.P.C.A and has lasted many, many years – it’s fantastic quality , 100% cotton & supports a great cause as well as putting a smile on my face each time I use it !
It’s quite a gorgeous one actually, all paisley and colourful and funky, with a cool little kiwi on it. Mum bought it for me in a souvenir shop in Queenstown – despite the fact that it was us she was visiting in Queenstown at the time so clearly we didn’t need a souvenir. I picked on her about it at the time but now that we are living back in Australia I’m pleased to have it. It reminds me of those chilly wood fire winters and looooong summer days.
I am extremely embarrassed to say
The way my tea towels look today
For they are all quite a few years old
There is one that I try to keep
Clean and ironed; extremely neat
That gets “trotted” out when friends and family stay.
But, alas I’ve failed, for in my house the male
Who has disregarded my request
To keep this towel for the very best
Has used it to dry his dirty greasy hands!
A green & white fish one – a souvenir from Vanuatu.
My favourite tea towel is an oldie which has cats all over it. I love cats so most of my tea towels are gifts (with cats on them). A change would be lovely!
My teatowel has 4 holes in it
A tea towel pressie from my Mum with a picture of a Nun and the name Sr Mary Merlot. She gave my sister the one with Sr Mary Menopause – think Mum knows us so well!!
I have many cheap tea towells and none are special or my favorite! This would be a first favorite if I should be so lucky as to win it!!
In the third drawer down
my tea towels can be found.
It’s quite a motley collection,
the only thing they have in common
is they’re all aged, worn and rather thin.
It’s probably time to replace them but
I much rather spend my money
on great food, wine and chocolates.
The tea towel that I’m using now is a red and white plaid. It is so old and gross, I might as well be using a sock to dry my dishes.
Black with white tea cups
My current tea towel is almost threadbare. Hardly dries the dishes at all
Most of our tea towels are hand me downs from my parents (some with holes in them). The only new tea towels I have are a couple that a Swedish friend gave me when visiting. It seems giving a tea towel as a gift is an international tradition!
my current best drying teatowels picked up at a bargain price 3 for a $1 are souvenir 2000 millennium,
if i’d known they were going to be so good and last so long i would have brought more then 3.
Today’s teatowel is handcrafted with a hook to keep it in place, pretty and practical
It has some holes in it and is a red checkered one from Kmart
I have a great collection of Guide Dog teatowells that I bought to help an amazing organisation.
My tea towel is a sorry sight. All thin and full of holes. Bought from the guide dogs society many years ago.
The tea towel I’m currently using, I’m embarrassed to say
It has fraying edges and a big bleach stain however I still use it every day
It was given to me by my grandma on her third trip to Disneyland
As she told me when she gave it to me, it’ll stop me from getting dish pan hands
The poor Mickey Mouse print has been ripped right through the nose
As my young cousin says ‘ this towel really blows’
Id love to have a Kookery set instead
Cause soon my poor old towel will be nothing but threads!
Mines a boring old shabby aqua and white check. Would love some new ones!
a terry towelling one that has a beautiful pattern of wild flowers all over it
I am currently using a souvenier tea towel we brought back from our trip to Alice Springs over Easter this year. I believe in using things that make you feel happy- and this towel brings back great memories
The tea towel I’m currently using is one I bought when moving in with my partner to our new home. We had no tea towels whatsoever and the in-laws coming to stay so I had to run out and get a couple of beautiful turquoise, pink and yellow tea towels patterned with birds. They are still my favourite ‘decorative’ towels.
Oops! It’s almost quarter to eight and lunch friends have just gone and I don’t like the look of my kitchen at all – Tour de France in two hours, so big cleanup ere that!! Fresh towel – don’t know who gave it to me, but am smirking – on quite an elegant brown background it says ‘I cook, you wash up’!! darn it, I cooked AND am washing up
! I like your towels much better!!
I pick up quirky linen tea towels at op shops,Australian birds are on my current one.
My current favourite is a Kinkara Tea teatowel that my m.i.l. bought newly baked bread to us in. The best use ever for teatowels
10 for $8 special at coles. I buy then every 3 months as they get old and ratty looking in no time with 3 kids using them for everything but the dishes
One my friend gave me when she returned from a Tassie holiday last year. Nice pictures of Tassie critters and beautiful flora
The one I’ve pinched from mum. My tea towels seem to have the same problem as my socks and always going walkabout. Or maybe they are all mum’s and she’s just taken them back!!
My tea towel is a dodgy old red and white check one that barely dries the dishes any more.
My little yellow tea towel is looking very sad,
Kinda has a scent to it that smells really bad.
To win this pack would make me so glad.
A tea towel should always compliment the kitchen! It is more than just a drying device!! The tea towel in my kitchen at the moment is a cute black and white striped number! ☺
my tea towel is the classic checked cotton available at most department stores the serve me well there wearing down but ill buy the same as I find these not to bad on most dishes
My teatowel has seen better days..probably 7 years of them. We battle together to dry dishes, hands, wipe down cupboards, protect my hands from hot stuff and then… my partner uses it to get out the hot chook. We have a huge cleaning chore to restore after that!
My tea towels have seen better days, I think it’s time we parted ways. They are so covered in holes they do a poor job of drying the bowls. I need some tea towels that would pass the Mother in law inspection, I need the Kookery Kollection!!
We bought some nice waffle weave ones, they looked pretty, but they didn’t do anything. They just moved the water around, didn’t seem to soak any up! So we got some cheap ones from Aldi – they were brilliant.
An old tea towel from when Charles married Diana!!! It would have been a collectors item if it hadn’t been used for decades!
I have multiple tea towels of various patterns and pictures, my fav is my old high school one, still going strong after a couple of years of use. It did sit dormant for about 18 years as a keepsake. All are looking tired and ratty except three horrible black ones which leave fluff and don’t dry very well at all.
I am currently using a terry towelling blue tea towel with three yellow ducks printed on it
It’s a linen tea towel with a big colourful Crimson Rosella parrot to brighten these wintery days.
I cringe to say…my tea towel is terry towelling with farm animals printed on it…come to think of it…it looks like my grandma’s!
I call it (politely) a “piece of fabric”, my daughter calls it “tragic” , my husband turns around and refuses to dry the dishes…
I’m currently using an Elmo teatowel I bought at Universal Studios in Japan – it’s soft and thirsty and red …..
It’s red and white checks and totally boring,
I’d love some new ones to brighten my kitchen!
My current tea towel is little more than a rag,
and probably belongs in the garbage bag!
It’s served me well but its time has come,
I definitely could use a beautiful, new one!!
My tea towel has dried its fair share of dishes,
after hours in the kitchen baking all things delicious!
It’s wiped off the benches and spills on the floor,
and spent its whole life on the hook by the door.
It’s old and it’s thin and a terrible shade of blue,
with frayed, ripped edges – very sad but it’s true!
And as I say farewell and prepare to throw it away -
I pray that a new one will arrive to save the day!!
Still using the hideous black and white striped tea towel. Remember how I said it barely dried the dishes? Well I was drying a wine glass with a bit of force to get rid of the smears, and I broke the wine glass between my fingers!
Bad tea towel or superwoman?! Either way I need a new tea towel!
I’m using a small red and white check patterned tea towel at the moment.
My love of cooking over many years for family and friends means lots of tea towels, very well loved but very well worn.
An thin, old and fraying blue checkered embarrassment of a teatowel.
Today’s tea towel has a true blue Aussie koala on it. Love it!
All my tea towels somehow look like they come from the 1960′s but this one currently is very ratty even with a burn mark in it!
My tea towel looks like something out of my great grandmother’s kitchen, floral vintage style and most definitely seen better days. Hidden in the cupboard to avid embarrassment from friends and family
Im currently using a teatowl that has The Cat In The Hat on it. My 2 year old chose it and its his to help with the dishes. Anything that inspires my son to help tidy up must be a good thing.
Its all black with a green border and it has ‘Kiwi’s and NZ footy players on it looks like they are having a ball! Only trouble is I’m Aussie…
its a sad excuse for a tea towl
its raggy and deffinately used
its literally falling apart
like a rag
The teatowel I use is an ol’ fave
With boring blue lines
It’s time for a change!
One side pretty and picturesque, the other side faintly reminiscent of past dinners and lunches!
As odd as it seems some bright animal adsorbing face-washers are our tea towels to get the kids involved
Checkered red and tattered from many cooking expeditions but much loved
Beige with ducks on them. We got them onsale at woolworths for $1 for 2.
Hi: I’m a great grandma now and I still have two Irish linen tea towels I received as shower gifts in 1954- I only use them on very special occasions, they are striped and I’d love to get more I live in Saskatchewan,Canada
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