Maybe it's because I'm borderline Gen X (or is it Gen Y - I'm thinking of the one typified by instant gratification) but the other day as I contemplated my stack of blank new teatowels I suddenly had to have a teatowel with pi on it. I suppose it's because pi had been on my mind - I ordered fabric for some pouffes for the new house and found myself short on fabric because I had used 2.54 instead of 3.14 to calculate the circumference of the pouffes. And of course everyone knows that 2.54 gets you from cm to inches, not diameters to circumferences.
And it really bothered me, because I thought pi was firmly embedded in my mind from highschool and uni days, only to find that I couldn't for the life of me remember what its value was - and even more embarassingly, I had to ask my husband! So anyway, everything else had to wait for a couple of days and I now have pi teatowels (and I will never forget the value of pi again).
But of course, why stop at pi? At about the same time we visited friends who had a copy of the periodic table of the elements on their side table. And then I couldn't stop thinking about the periodic table. In highschool we learned all the elements, their symbols, molecular weights and position on the table. I thought I'd never forget, only to realise as we visited, that I haven't even thought about the periodic table for at least ten years. So then of course we had to have periodic table tea towels... and times table teatowels...
Who knows what else would have happened if we hadn't run out of blank teatowels at that point?
Maybe it's because I'm borderline Gen X (or is it Gen Y - I'm thinking of the one typified by instant gratification) but the other day as I contemplated my stack of blank new teatowels I suddenly had to have a teatowel with pi on it. I suppose it's because pi had been on my mind - I ordered fabric for some pouffes for the new house and found myself short on fabric because I had used 2.54 instead of 3.14 to calculate the circumference of the pouffes. And of course everyone knows that 2.54 gets you from cm to inches, not diameters to circumferences. 
And it really bothered me, because I thought pi was firmly embedded in my mind from highschool and uni days, only to find that I couldn't for the life of me remember what its value was - and even more embarassingly, I had to ask my husband! So anyway, everything else had to wait for a couple of days and I now have pi teatowels (and I will never forget the value of pi again).
But of course, why stop at pi? At about the same time we visited friends who had a copy of the periodic table of the elements on their side table. And then I couldn't stop thinking about the periodic table. In highschool we learned all the elements, their symbols, molecular weights and position on the table. I thought I'd never forget, only to realise as we visited, that I haven't even thought about the periodic table for at least ten years. So then of course we had to have periodic table tea towels... and times table teatowels...
Who knows what else would have happened if we hadn't run out of blank teatowels at that point?
4 comments:
Times tables teatowels... great idea for this household! I like your thinking!
Hi Ruth
You are such an inspiration...glad you and your family were spared the trauma of the bush fires. I love your tra towels... but how did you create the silk screen?
Hi Lyn, the stencils is a paper cut. I couldn't justify the cost of developing a screen for such a limited number of prints, so pushed on and cut a stencil! It wasn't as hard to do as I first though - quite therapeautic, actually.
Awesome Ruth! Love the Periodic Table towel, such a cool nerdy thing to have! And I bet Phil was most pleased you had to ask him what the value of Pi was... :-)
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