Would you buy this?

With the arrival of warm weather (at least in SOME parts of the country), I'm trying to expand some of my shop offerings since a need for hats, no matter how adorable, is tapering off. I've already been working on adding stuff like wash cloths and scrubbers and headbands and I'll be adding more floral hair clips as well. But I just tried out this project and thought I'd see if it might be something that people would be interested in.

When my husband and I got married nearly 17 years ago, it seemed that one of the big things to get at weddings were those dish towels that had the crocheted button-over hook that made it so you could attach the towel over your oven handle or a cupboard door handle. The problem was, if you needed to actually pick up the towel, you had to go to the trouble to unbutton the thing and then you'd have this long crochet part getting in the way. For us, it was more trouble than it was worth and the towels ended up being stuffed at the back of the drawer.

Fast forward a decade and a half later, and I found myself at the local kids museum where my youngest was taking a little "preschool" class. Since she and most of the other 2 year olds in the class were not potty trained, the parents/guardians were asked to stay in the museum just in case. So I'd bring my crochet projects and enjoy an hour or so of creative time. The grandmother of another girl in the class brought her crochet as well and we had fun comparing projects that we were working on. One day she brought in a little metal circle and began crocheting around it. I asked what she was doing and she told me she was making a dish towel holder. It was patterned after the old idea of the crochet dishcloths, but it made it so you didn't have to attach the dish towel. Instead it just slides right through the circular bottom. That way you have a cute place to hold your towel, but when you need the towel, you just pull it right out.

I watched her make one, and thought "I can do that!" So I went and bought some metal circles at JoAnn's and gave it a try.

So now my question to my (five) faithful readers is: Would you ever be interested in buying something like this? Do you think I should I add it to my store?