#123...dressed up dishtowels

I love pretty dishtowels, and decided to embellish some plain dishtowels with a stripe of fabric to give as a gift. It was one of the simplest sewing projects I've ever done.

Supplies:

Plain dish towels like these

Fabric strip that measures about 4 inches by whatever the width of the towel plus two inches to turn under...(for example if your towel is 24" wide cut the strip 4" by 26")

To Make:

Iron under half an inch on each long side of strip

Pin to front of towel (mark up from bottom to make sure your stripe is straight across)

Top-stitch along each long turned under edge and fold sides around to the back of the towel for a finished look. Press flat and you're done!

In addition to the dish towels, I made some potholders to give along with them. For the potholders I simply cut 7 inch squares of fabric and rounded the corners off. I used two layers of this insulated lining on the inside of the potholder. I pinned all layers together and top stitched a square to hold all layers together. To finish off the edges and make the hanging loop, I used bias tape that I made from the fabric I used on the dish towels. Potholders are also fairly easy to make and here is a good tutorial I found.