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These are nice - and I like the fact that they're organic...

...but they're kinda pricey - and I gotta wonder how that blanket stitch is going to hold up after a dozen washes or so?

Here are some that are less expensive and come in colors:
http://www.freshandgreen.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=687

This stitching is trouble - the hems will become frayed after a few washes.

Didn't we just see this a week or two ago?

Man, that stitch would be easy to duplicate on a normal towel. My sewing machine does that. Why pay the price when I could do it myself. HMMMM. :D

I like the towels and the stitching and I think it would hold up. However, Sundance doesn't send me any more catalogs since I decided about eight years ago that buying turquoise jewelry graced by wordy and pretentious copy was really demented, given the fact that I travel to the Southwest frequently. All the faux rusticity can be found for less elsewhere, like Eddie Bauer.

The towels had an appealing 40s look to them. I think my mother had something similar for dust cloths that she inherited from her mother-in-law, who never saw a fabric that she didn't to apply a Singer zig-zag to.

My mom has been making towels that look like that for years with her surger! I agree - find the organic towling and DIY...