Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Sew and Tell: fabric strip towel

Photo Courtesy of Sumo's Sweet Stuff
A few weeks ago I featured this adorable fringed baby quilt by Sumo’s Sweet Stuff.


 
Since I don’t have any friends having babies, I used her tutorial to give new life to a kitchen towel.

I found an old towel that was one step away from being a dust rag. It had a few little stains but was still in pretty good shape {not falling apart and completely stained}.
 
I cut fabric strips a little wider than the towel and sewed them together. For this project, you sew the wrong sides together. If you sew, you automatically pin and sew right sides together so you have to keep reminding yourself.

Once the pieces were sewn together, I cut the seams to fringe them. Sumo’s Sweet Stuff has a great tutorial with pictures on this process, so head over there if you want to make one.

From almost a dust rag to a new kitchen towel. 


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7 comments :

  1. This is realy cute!
    I really like your fabric selection!

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  2. I love the way these different fabrics work together! Nice!

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  3. so much prettier than any of my kitchen towels - maybe I need to check out the tutorial too!

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  4. What a great idea to jazz up and old towel and help it be useful longer.

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  5. Perfect! Fantastic way to lengthen the life of a towel not to mention make it so pretty.

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