Tutorial: Easy scrappy dish towel

Are you tired of hoarding your fabric scraps and never finding a use for them? Well, it’s time to dust off your scrap bin and get ready to create something beautiful and useful!

Katie from Bite Sized Biggie has shared a fantastic idea for putting your fabric scraps to good use. She uses them to add quick and pretty embellishments to plain dish towels. It’s such a simple and fun project that you can complete in just a few hours, and the end result is a set of gorgeous, one-of-a-kind towels that are perfect for sprucing up your kitchen or gifting to a friend.

To get started, all you need are some plain dish towels, fabric scraps in various colors and patterns, a sewing machine, and some thread. Then, simply cut out your fabric scraps into different shapes, such as hearts, stars, or flowers, and arrange them on the dish towel in a pattern that you like. Once you’re happy with the placement, sew the scraps onto the towel using a zigzag stitch. Voila! You now have a beautifully embellished dish towel that is sure to brighten up your kitchen.

These towels are not only a great way to use up your fabric scraps, but they also make fantastic housewarming presents. Imagine how happy your friends or family members would be to receive a set of unique and colorful dish towels that you made yourself! Plus, because the towels are handmade, they show that you put thought and care into the gift.

Don’t let your fabric scraps go to waste! Follow Katie’s lead and use them to create something beautiful and useful. Not only will you have a fun and satisfying crafting experience, but you’ll also end up with a practical and pretty addition to your kitchen or a thoughtful and unique gift for a loved one.

They’d make great housewarming presents!

Click below for her tutorial:

Super Scrappy Dish Towel Tutorial, by Bite Sized Biggie

[photo from Bite Sized Biggie]

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I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.

Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.

Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.

Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.

And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.

[photo credit: Melly Sews]

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