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How to Sew a Fabric Towel Topper:
by Twila Lenoir
Here are instructions to make a kitchen towel hanger from fabric. The fabric required is small, so you can put those fabric scraps left over from other projects to good use!
In this home sewing project, you will use your iron both to press the fabric -- and to make the pattern itself!
Fabric Towel Topper
Supplies:
Sew a Fabric Towel Hanger
Instructions:
1. This sounds funny - but get out your iron and place it in the middle of your 2 pieces of 4" x 8" fabric. Trace around the iron, adding 1 inch all around. Really!
2. With right sides, sew a 1/4" seam, leaving the bottom of the iron-shaped pattern open.
4. You can either leave the towel at its current length, or cut it as short as you wish.
5. Gather the towel and put the top inch or so inside the fabric hanger. Fold the cut edge of the fabric hanger to the inside, creating a hem of about 1/2 inch.
6. Pin, if required, then sew a straight line across the hem of the fabric holder, enclosing the top edge of the towel on the inside.7. Sew some lace trim at the bottom and some matching ribbon along the lace.
8. Hand stitch the velcro, or the snap fastener, at the top inside of the iron shape and the middle of the front, as shown in the illustration. Fold the fabric hanger over a dowel or towel rod and fasten closed.
I love these...I use em all the time and hated spending fortunes on em now I can make em to fit what I want. Thanks alot awesome pattern idea.
Hey,
I want to say thank you for this pattern! My mama has had these towels hanging on her oven door for as long as I can remember! I always tried to replicate them but never got it right! Thanks so much! Love this website it's going in the bookmarks! I'm just starting to get into sewing I hope I get better with time & practice.
Thanks Again,
Rikki Marie
can you send me the potholder towel topper pattern? thanks
Hi Joan, I'm looking for a pattern to make the towel/potholder that Rachel uses on her show. They look like what we should have that does a lot of baking. I have not found them in the stores in my area and I'm sure I could sew them with a little instructions and measurments. Thanks
This was very easy - I topped stitch and hung it on my handles in my kitchen. So cute.
please send me the pattern for the ptoholder dishtowel topper
Thanks
Bonnie from Mt Vernon OH
wow wonderful
I USE A POTHOLDER FOR MY TOWEL TOPPER AND USE A BUTTON FOR THE FASTENER.
Hi Joan,
Can you tell me or show me how you do this technique. I have the potholders which are square and have a loop in the middle. I also have the matching terrycloth kitchen towels.
Thank you for your help.
Brenda Miller
Hi Joan, I have just recently heard of useing a potholder as the topper. I am not sure how to do it, can you tell me?
