I made myself these two dish draining mats from quilting cotton and old towels:
We don’t have a dishwasher, so everything is washed by hand. Stuff that’s too big for the drying rack goes on a microfiber mat I bought a few years ago, but only having one means that I don’t wash it as often as I want to.
I put poppers/snaps on one of them, as I want to be able to roll it up and store it easily (and cos I bought a snap press last month and had only used it once ). I’m waiting before I put snaps on the second one, to make sure having snaps in the middle of the mat isn’t annoying.
If you’re planning to make some, don’t use the tightly woven bit of the towel. Because it gathers the fabric so much I couldn’t get the mat to lay flat. That’s why the surfers one is smaller - I had to cut it down to get it to lie flat.
I wanted a simple way to quilt them that didn’t involve stitching along previously sewn lines, so I decided to stitch these lines with angled tops. I’m sure I’m not the first person to think of this, but to my mind they look like patterns in a swimming pool so I’m calling it swim lanes.