How to Make a Fabric-Topped Kitchen Towel Hanger

How to Make a Fabric-Topped Kitchen Towel Hanger

Topping a kitchen towel using a material hanger helps maintain the towel handy and adds a decorative touch, especially if your kitchen is decorated in a nation or shabby-chic style. You can use any kind of kitchen towel: flour sack, terry or colorful cotton. For sensible laundering, choose cotton cloth to use with cotton towels, along with prewash both the fabric and towel to preshrink them. By cutting the towel in half an hour prior to sewing on the cloth top, the period of the finished hanging towel is about the same as if it were folded over a towel bar.

Make the Fabric Top

Fold an 8 1/2-by-11 inch piece of paper in half lengthwise to find the middle; subsequently open it flat on a table. Expand a ruler from each lower corner to the top center — at the bend and mark lines to make a triangle using the lower edge of the paper as the base. Cut along the marked lines to make a paper triangle pattern.

Place two layers of fabric on the table using right-sides facing. Pin the flux pattern into the fabric. Cut along the design border, which makes two fabric triangles.

Sew together the two long sides of the triangles using right-sides facing, using a 1/4-inch seam allowance along with also a medium stitch length, about 8, and also a normal needle, about size 12. Leave the base of the triangles open.

Turn the triangles right-side-out and then finger-crease the seams. Cut the seam allowance at the pointed tip of the flux before turning so it will appear flat. Iron the seams level, and turn press and under 1 inch along the edges of the open base. The towel is embedded at the open bottom of the triangle.

Sew the Towel

Fold the towel crosswise to find the middle and trim along the middle fold to create two pieces. By way of instance, bend the long edges of a rectangular towel to create two brief pieces.

Place the sewing machine to a very long basting stitch, about 5 or 6. Sew a direct line of stitches throughout the cut edge of the towel piece concerning 3/4 inch from the raw edge. Sew a second row of stitches between the first row and also the edge, about 1/4 inch in the first. Leave 4 to 5 inch tails of thread at each end of the rows of stitching.

Grasp the bobbin thread tails of the 2 rows of stitching at one end, pulling gently and collecting the towel along the stitching line. If the towel is bulky, then you may have to assemble from the ends of the stitching lines.

Fit the accumulated edge of the towel inside the cloth scoop, gathering the towel to fit. Pin the cloth triangle edges evenly above the gathered towel edge.

Place the sewing machine stitch length to about 8, then sew across the fabric flux base about 1/8 inch from the edge of the cloth, catching in most layers. Sew a second row of stitching across the cloth scoop, about 1/4 inch in the first. Safe all thread finishes.

Fold the top of the triangle over to fulfill the lower edge of the cloth, making the hanging bend. Mark the positioning on the flux for a button, snap or hook-and-loop fastener. Sew about the fastener of choice.

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