After writing about cloth napkins, one drawback occurred to me.
Stains.
I hate them. I have many cloth napkins that were once a gorgeous white that now look permanently dirty due to stains. Spaghetti stains, coffee stains, grease stains... you name it, they're lurking on my cloth napkins. I know that they're clean, but they don't look like it.
I've tried fighting them, but in the end, the stains always win. As I did my laundry today I thought about this and tried to figure out what to do.
They're really not a big deal... at least, not until company arrives. That's the point in which I panic. I search through my napkins looking for a few that don't have stains. This, as you can imagine, can be very tiring.
But then I realized something. What if instead of fighting the stains, I incorporate them into the overall design? The tags warn me against using dye, but what if I use... food?
Yeah, it seems nuts.
So naturally, I'm trying it. I picked a truly nasty cloth napkin - one that has pizza sauce stains all over the edges.
At the moment, I'm boiling some soon-to-expire pizza sauce mixed into some water, and soaking my nasty looking cloth inside.
Pretty gross, huh?
I had used half of the sauce a while back, but the remaining half ended up hiding in the very back of my fridge. Rather than throwing it out, I figure I can use it in this crazy experiment.
If all goes well, I'll have a yellow to orange napkin. If not, I'll have a nicely learned lesson. It seems like a great idea to me!!!
Results to follow in another post. Stay tuned, and wish me luck!
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