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.
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
Step one: gather materials. You need one button, clean hand towels, and two scraps of fabric about 8" by 8".
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.
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.
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.
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!
What do you think? Pretty easy, huh?
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America S. says
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!
Camille says
Thank you!! You'll really be surprised by how quickly these are to whip up!
ANN*H says
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.
Kara Hoholik says
These are so cute! I might have to try with some hem tape since my sewing skills are nil. 🙂
Camille says
What a great idea!
Kerilynn says
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!
motherOf2 says
Really nice... I've got to try this on my kids' hand towels. Thanks for your wonderfully explained post!
Margaret says
I'm going to do these hanging towels but thought I'd try some heavy duty Velcro instead of a button..wish me luck
Stephanie says
Thanks, I've been thinking about doing this! And I just got my sewing machine out to hem some jeans.