Hoarfrost

We’ve been graced with a week of warm weather and it has been so refreshing to be able to step outside and feel the warm sun on my face. Everyone around is talking about the first of several “False Springs” that come along each year, and I am fooled each and every time. I know it’s only February and that winter can’t possibly be over, but the daffodils and tulips are starting to break through the earth, the song sparrows are ushering in the sun each morning, and the unmistakable spring breeze (read: gale-force wind) is blowing through our little holler as it does each year. Freezing temps are returning next week, but for now I am choosing to revel in my naivete as my hands itch to start cleaning up the gardens (I won’t. That’s months away. The bugs gotta sleep.)

Just in time for freezing temperatures to return again, I have a new set of kitchen towels available in my Etsy shop. I am calling this design “Hoarfrost” as the jagged angles and organic growth of the pattern resembles the structure of delicate ice crystals found on the edges of leaves in the early morning.

The wind today made these absolutely impossible to photograph outside where I prefer to take pictures. Instead I made do as best I could inside.

I wove this design in four different colors – Navy, Emerald, Magenta and what Kyle has lovingly named “Farmhouse Blue”.

I still can’t decide which one I like the most! These were a lot of fun to make and kept me busy through December and January and now I’m excited to pass them on to new homes to brighten up your kitchen. As always, these are made with 100% unmercerized cotton, so they are both soft and absorbent. Which color is your favorite?