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Buy a package of 5 or so small kitchen towels in bulk. For each towel you make, fold each one in half and iron it so you have a good crease in the middle. Now sew with gather stitches over that middle crease. Gather the towel to your liking.
The next step is your choice - you can use a cheap hot pad, wide ribbon, a wash cloth, or other ideas? - any of these can be sewed, also down the middle of each, to the original towel you gathered, right sides together of course. When you use wide ribbon you can zig zag stitch with a wider stitch. Using the wide ribbon you would just tie a nice bow with the excess and use that as the hanger to hang the towel on your stove or cupboard knob. If you use a hot pad you can arrange the hot pad diagonally and use the little hoop that's already on the hot pad as the hanger.
With these simple ideas, and your own as a novice seamstress, you can create a hanging towel with ease and very little money. I enjoy doing embroidery stitches to decorate the towel even more, especially if this is a gift for a friend.
By Karen from Davis, CA
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09/17/2009
Hi Karen,
I sent in an idea like this awhile back. I went to the Dollar Store and purchased the matching pot holder and oven mits. For less than five dollars it made a great gift. I use them in my own home all the time!
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