Dish Towel & Potholder Tutorial

I pulled out my sewing machine last weekend.... and worked on a couple of projects....

Here's my old clunker...got it at an auction for $3 a few years ago and it works perfectly...

I was so excited to get a sewing machine and not spend a lot of money..

because I might sew a few times each year...
but how hard can sewing some straight lines be?

Let me show you what I started with for this project...

I went shopping for a kitchen towel and matching potholder...

and got this Paula Dean set...the teapots and colors are cute...

And then because I'm never happy to buy just one of anything...
I got this set in red...love the salt n pepper shakers....

I took the towel and folded in in half...

you'll want to put the right sides together

which is opposite of this picture but I wanted to show you

to fold the towel in half the width of the towel and not the length...

Now it's time to get sewing, no pins needed...

sew a line about an inch from the middle of the towel on the biggest stitch your machine can sew...

possibly a basting stitch? not sure but you get the idea, right?

Make sure to leave plenty of thread on each end of where you sew for gathering later on...

Then sew another line on the other side of the middle of the towel.....

pretty easy!

then start pulling on the threads to gather so that the towel is as

wide as the potholder....

then you'll want to match things up so that the middle of the potholder

is in the middle of the stiching you just did....

this time you'll want to change the setting to a smaller stitch and sew it all together....
remove your basting stiches...

add a fun button and use the loop on the potholder to hang in from your stove...

and here's the other one I made...

super cute and fun to make...

I also did another sewing project which I'm half way done with...

I'll show that off next week...

Not to bad from someone who knows doesn't know much about sewing...

LOL

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