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    Home » How To Make Hanging Kitchen Towels - A Quick DIY

    April 17, 2018 By Camille 9 Comments

    How To Make Hanging Kitchen Towels - A Quick DIY

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    Are you constantly picking up your hand towels from the floor? With toddlers in my house, I know I am! We're going to show you how to make hanging kitchen towels to solve this problem.

    hanging kitchen towel

    I do not understand why my kids find it so fun to grab the towels hanging from the oven bar and throw them on the floor, but they do this all day long. Drives me nuts. I knew I've wanted some sort of towel fix that stays in place, and this week was a great time to do it. You'll be shocked by how easy this project really is! One hanging hand towel coming right up!

    How to make hanging kitchen towels

    hanging hand towel

    Step one: gather materials. You need one button, clean hand towels, and two scraps of fabric about 8" by 8".

    hanging hand towel

    Step two: Fold the top of the towel into small pleats (around 1"). Adjust the spacing and width of the pleats until you get the desired finished width you're aiming for. Mine is 5" wide from end to end. Also, take your fabric swatches and cut out this triangle shape with snipped corners on two ends. My triangles (post-clipped) came out to be around 6" tall and 6" wide.

    hanging hand towel

    Step three: Sew a seam across the top of your pleated towel. Sew around the edges of your funky triangle while leaving the bottom edge open. Clip corners, trim seams, turn inside out, and press.

    hanging hand towel

    Step four:  Turn in about ⅝" of the open side and press. At this point, I added a triangle of iron-on interfacing to support the button hole you're going to make here. Make sure the length is appropriate to the size of your button and that it is centered. Encase the pleated towel, pin in place, and sew across the edge. I used a zig-zag stitch for fun, and to make sure the needle caught the other side of fabric in one swoop.

    hanging hand towel

    Step five: Add your button and loop it around any drawer handle or oven bar! My kids love using this towel, and it is so refreshing to not pick up towels off the floor every 10 minutes!

    hanging hand towel

    What do you think? Pretty easy, huh?

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    1. America S. says

      July 09, 2014 at 12:56 pm

      This is so cute! I, too, am tired of my hand towels falling on the floor! I am so going to sew some of these babies right up! Thanks!

      Reply
      • Camille says

        July 09, 2014 at 6:17 pm

        Thank you!! You'll really be surprised by how quickly these are to whip up!

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    2. ANN*H says

      July 09, 2014 at 7:54 pm

      I like these . I used to have one or two of these a long time ago. Seem easy to make with the pattern and color you want on them. I like to that the kids cant rip it off the rack because it usually does end up thrown on the floor.

      Reply
    3. Kara Hoholik says

      July 12, 2014 at 10:57 am

      These are so cute! I might have to try with some hem tape since my sewing skills are nil. 🙂

      Reply
      • Camille says

        July 16, 2014 at 7:35 am

        What a great idea!

        Reply
    4. Kerilynn says

      July 14, 2014 at 10:35 am

      It's good to know that my kids aren't the only ones who find it difficult to hang a towel back up. When I get my new machine (so excited!) I think I am going to try this out and see if I can keep my towels off the floor too!

      Reply
    5. motherOf2 says

      November 26, 2017 at 1:48 pm

      Really nice... I've got to try this on my kids' hand towels. Thanks for your wonderfully explained post!

      Reply
    6. Margaret says

      November 28, 2017 at 8:28 am

      I'm going to do these hanging towels but thought I'd try some heavy duty Velcro instead of a button..wish me luck

      Reply
    7. Stephanie says

      April 18, 2018 at 8:00 am

      Thanks, I've been thinking about doing this! And I just got my sewing machine out to hem some jeans.

      Reply

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