TOWEL IDEAS AND PROJECTS

This page is all about towels!!  Well, that actually doesn’t sound too exciting, does it?

The truth is, we have gathered a long list of tutorials and videos showing how to make the most amazing things with hand towels, bath towels, and tea towels.  

Get ready to make your own snuggly bath towels, create kitchen and tea towels that coordinate with the home decor, sew up tote bags and pillows with vintage tea towels, make a truly useful hooded towel for after the bath, and much more.

How to Make Towels

There are many tutorials here that teach how to make towels.  Think about being able to choose the perfect fabric design with amazing absorbency power!  They are so simple to sew, and you will be very pleased with the gorgeous results.

There are quick and easy directions to create kitchen towels and tea towels that match the kitchen decor.  Learn about the most absorbent fabrics to use and the quickest way to make a large stash of kitchen towels to use or to give as gifts.

There are patterns for super easy dish towels with no mitered corners and no fancy stitching.  All that is needed is some pretty fabric and some easy straight stitches to make dish towels that would look great in any kitchen.

Hanging Towel Patterns

I am totally into hanging towels for my kitchen!  I can’t seem to have enough of them.  Towels that are constantly slipping to the floor, getting lost and dirty, drives me crazy.

The diverse hanging towel patterns will leave you wanting to sew some up some to use and a bunch to make as gifts.  Just attach it to the oven handle, and there is always a towel waiting to dry off wet or messy hands.

The list below has many different ways to create these useful hanging towels.  Some tutorials use Kam Snaps, others use buttons with coordinating potholders, and hanging towels can even be made with Velcro!

It would be nice to make other kitchen accessories to match the new towels as well, like placemats, napkins, pot holders, and table runners!

DIY Hooded Towels

We’ve all seen them- the bath towels with the cutest little hoods to keep babies and toddlers all wrapped up after the night time bath.

Sadly, most of those hooded towels from the stores are made from thin material that barely absorbs water!  Besides their lack of absorbency, those little hooded towels just don’t fit our kiddos long enough.

Cue the DIY hooded towel patterns on this page!  The list is long of amazing hooded towels to make in any size.  I’d love my own hooded towel, and there is a great link to a tutorial using bath sheets to make this luxury for teens and adults.

Other Great Towel Projects

There are free instructions below to create a very useful and pretty plastic grocery bag holder to keep in the kitchen.  Dish towels come in handy for this project.

Buy up some inexpensive dish towels or tea towels and learn ways to embellish them into whimsical or fancy towels to display or to give as gifts. There are some tutorials with embellishments that are perfect for the holidays.

There is not one, not two, but three links to various tote bags made from kitchen or tea towels. Use these pretty totes for everything and anything and then just toss them in the washing machine!

There are just so many other ways to make and use towels, like a DIY car seat cover, pillows, reusable unpaper towels, and so much more!

This page is just chock full of towel projects, and you will want to get that sewing machine out and at the ready ASAP!!

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