New tea towels for mother mouse. I made these tea towels with linen or plain weave fabric that I found in my stash of old fabric. I cut out the little towels being careful to follow the weave of the fabric. The edges of the towel are frayed by several strands, no hemming!  I found the center of the tea towel by folding the towel in half and that's where I place the first red stripe. To make the stripes, I used two strands of red embroidery floss. I attached it to one end of the strand I wanted to replace in the tea towel, then pull it through the fabric. To attach, I gently pulled the strand to be replaced by just a tad, in order to have a place to attach the red floss. I found making a stitch in two directions through the little end of the strand was enough to hold while I pulled the embroidery floss through the fabric.  To pull the floss through, I followed the strand all the way to the other end of the fabric and gently pull that strand until it pulled the floss all the way through the towel. Then I trimmed the ends of the floss even with the edge. Next I counted over 4 strands and repeated the process. If the floss detaches you can weave the floss through the fabric, but you might go blind! Or maybe you could just find some striped fabric, but where is the fun in that?