Mother's Day Decorative Dish Towels: Tutorial/Giveaway!

GIVEAWAY CLOSED!

Can't decide what to make for mom? What about a new set of decorative dish towels?! With Mother's Day right around the corner I was thinking I needed to get on the ball! I have wanted to make decorative dish towels for sometime now, but have never gotten around to it. Making them for a Mother's Day gift is perfect excuse to cross them off my list! I thought I would share this tutorial with you so you could make them too!

In this tutorial I make the long ruffled decorative dish towel.

REVISED!

So Sorry! I woke up in the middle of the night thinking...

did I give a width for the green dot and blue/green print??! I looked and sure enough I hadn't. I apologize! I added the width of the 2 and 3 coordinating fabrics.

Materials: fabric (I used 2/3 coordinating fabrics), scissors, thread, sewing machine/serger, rotarty board/cutter/ruler, trims(optional)

The dish towel measure 28 inches in length and 17 inches in width

I used a fat quarter (A fat quarter measures 18x22 so I needed 6 more inches to get 28 inches in length) for floral fabric (18x22"), Green Dot (40x6")and Blue/green print(40x3") I gave myself some extra room for seam allowance. About a 1/2". When all was said and done Floral fabric in length was (20"), Green Dot (5.5")and Blue/green print(2.5") After you cut your fabric...

1) I put rights sides of the green dot and blue/green print together and serged. If you do not have a serger you will sew and finish with a zig zag stitch to prevent fraying.

2)Press seams

3) Hem by folding over 1/4 of an inch and then again 1/4 and sew. You will be pressing with the iron each time you do this. If you have a serger you can serge in place of the first folding of 1/4 of an inch.

4) Set your sewing machine up for a basting stitch.

5) Pull the top string to gather, go slow so it doesn't break. Gather until the green dot fabric is the same width as the floral fabric.

6) Match up, right sides together, with the main fabric with coordinating fabrics.

7) Pin and Sew

8) Serge or Zig Zag stitch to finish the edge

9) Top Stitch for a clean/finished look.

10) Hem the edges of the towel (sides, top, bottom) like in #3

11) Finally top stitch the flower material right above the green dot like in #9 and you are finished!!!

And you have your Mother's Day gift ready to celebrate mom/sister/daughter/friend.

Now for the exciting news...

I am giving away one of my decorative dish towel sets!!!

You may want to enter if...

you don't sew, but would love some new decorative dish towels.

you do sew, but don't have the time.

they match your kitchen.

you need new dish towels.

you have a mom in mind you want to give the to for MD.

you love free stuff.

someone used yours for an oven mitt and now they are "toast."

you just want 'em for yourself!

Giveaway Rules:

1.Become a follower of 2 Giggle Boxes and leave a comment with your email address saying which set of towels you fancy.

2.Post this on your facebook or twitter page and leave another comment saying you did so.

3 Blog about it and comment!
Giveaway ends ON Thursday, April 29th at noon EST

A comment will be chosen at random on random.org and posted next Thursday, April 29th!

Thank you for stopping by and playing along!

Sarah

Which one would you choose?!

Mismatched Green and Blue Floral

Floral and Green Dot

Pink/Yellow Floral