How to sew a fabric hanger for a kitchen towel or hand towel.
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:
Tea towel or hand towel
Scrap fabric to match your towel - about
4" by 8"
Snap fastener or velcro
Lace and ribbon scrap
iron and ironing board
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.
3. Turn right side out and press.
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.
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I made some of these towels for my daughters and they love them. These towels are just great.. I am making more to sell at a craft show and I have no doubt they will sell like crazy.
carol – bridgeport
April 22, 2008 - 19:25
I love this pattern i do not like the crochet ones
Michele Chapman – China Grove NC
March 12, 2008 - 19:03
Iam really glad to see this! All I have ever seen before were crocheted.This is much better for me .
Roxanna Chasteen – La Salle, Illinois
February 29, 2008 - 16:03
Glad to see this pattern--great idea!!!
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Benita – Omaha
March 16, 2008 - 21:26
Thanks for the pattern. I was looking for this one. All I could find were crocheted ones.
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.
