My boyfriend’s bathroom is quite small, so there is no avoiding getting the main floor area wet when you shower. He needed a bath mat, or maybe I did, since I was the one objecting to wet socks. His shower curtain is striped with bright orange, green, red, and yellow, so I thought I’d make him a terrycloth bath mat with those colors.
My stash contained mostly neutral terrycloth, except for a striped hand towel I had hoped to turn into a baby bib, but which had discoloration in the middle I hadn’t been able to remove. Perfect: I just cut strips off the edge and threw out the center. A trip to Jo-Ann didn’t turn up any terrycloth remnants, so I went to a thrift store and got a white cotton towel that I cut into fourths and dyed with my on-hand RIT.
Unfortunately I didn’t have any yellow or red; I was hoping the lighter orange would be more yellow, but no. Oh well. I didn’t end up using the fuchsia/wine piece since it was so far from the colors in his shower curtain. I pieced the rest together into a thick double-sided bath mat. The colors faded a bit when I washed the mat (I washed the individual pieces before making the mat, and then washed the mat about three times to make sure it won’t run in his laundry), and you can see that I didn’t bother with the “stir constantly” instruction on the RIT bottle, but I like that the colors aren’t completely uniform. I wasn’t sure how well I would like this while I was putting it together, but partially because post-sew washing puffed things up a bit and partially because it just looks better after taking a step back and contemplating it, I quite like it.
