Making Towels ~ The Easy Way

Last week I shared the toweling fabric that I found on fabric.com.

I bought 2 yards of the red with white stripe and 3 yards of the natural with the rose stripe.  The toweling fabric has the sides already finished, which makes it great for different projects.  Here it is pre-washing laid out on my dining room table.  You can see that, just as is, it would make for a great table runner.  Finishing off the ends with ruffle, trim or even just folding it over and sewing it and it’s done!

I think I’m going to do a runner out of the neutral fabric with the rose stripe and a towel, since I got an extra yard of that fabric.

I decided to make towels with the red and I picked up ready made ruffle trim {cotton} at Joann’s and used it to finish off the ends of the toweling fabric.  I washed the fabric first and used an existing kitchen towel for size.  A little bit of sewing and they are done!  What a great idea for a house warming, hostess or Christmas gift!

Double ruffled these.

This is one of those times when I wish my 25 year old Singer had an embroidery function.  I may be asking for a new sewing machine for Christmas, so I’ll be looking for some bells and whistles!

On a related note, I came up with what I want to do to that little stool and I’m waiting on something I ordered for that.  I’m also going to go ahead and put that block fabric on the screen.  But, it’s on backorder! So that project looks like it will have to wait for a few weeks.  I’ll share each of those projects once they are done.

Kathy