Best Making Tea Towels

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Making tea towels. They are readily available from online merchants home goods stores and gift shops. And trim all the edges to make the fat quarters the same size all around. Its a little ironing and four straight lines its so easy that anyone can do it.

Theyre all easy to make practical and budget-friendly. How to Make DIY Tea Towels. Whether youre looking to upcycle an old tea towel or find a use for new unused one I hope they inspire you to get making.

2 strips of print A 16 14 x 4 1 strip print B 16 14 x 7 Cut 2 pieces of rick rack 16 ¼ long. Pin around the edges and sew all the way around leaving about 3 open for turning. DIY Watercolor Striped Napkins.

Making these DIY tea towels is so easy using stencils and good quality paint and they certainly dont need to be just for springtime. In the past muslin was widely used for kitchen towels. So pick two fat quarters for your first tea towel and place them right sides together on your cutting board.

These double sided towels are made with 100 cotton unbleached muslin which you can find at almost any fabric store. I did a couple of tea towels with scattered stamps and a couple more where I lined the stamps along the edges of the tea towel. However you can customize your tea towels with any image.

You can get creative with the painted tea towel. Unbleached muslin is great as it has not been treated with any of the chemicals involved in the bleaching process and may be. According to the Fabric Depot website a typical tea towel takes 34 of a yard to make one towel.