At a craft fair last weekend, I bought a roll of reusable “paperless towels”: pieces of recycled flannel bedsheet cut and finished to about the size of a paper towel, then rolled onto a cardboard tube. After a week of use I’m very happy — they’re sturdier and more absorbent than paper towels, and go through the wash just fine. The real genius here is rolling them into that familiar form factor — and, being flannel, they stick to themselves and stay on the roll. I got a set of 16 mis-matched towels. It seemed fitting to make a holder for them from leftover scraps of wood from the workshop.
