Easy Hanging Kitchen Towel Holder Sewing Tutorial (with Video)
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This hanging kitchen towel with a pot holder is one of the easiest sewing projects you can make!
You only need to do one row of stitching and hand sew a button. That’s it!
This dish towel hangs on the stove handle or drawer handle so that it is always there to dry your hands, yet easy enough to remove to throw in the washing machine. It’s a great way to add some color and style to your kitchen decor.
We used supplies from the Dollar Tree and Dollar General, which makes this a very budget friendly project, but you can buy kitchen towels (or tea towels) and pot holders at any home store for just a few dollars.
You may want to buy an additional pot holder to make our easy pot holder purse caddy, too!
DIY Kitchen Towel Sewing Tutorial
My video tutorial is at the end of the directions.
Supplies
- Dish Towel or Tea Towel
- Pot Holder with a loop on a straight side (not a corner)
- Button
- Hand Sewing Needle and Thread
Directions
Important Tip: Prewash the dish towel and pot holder before starting the sewing project. This is important because you will need to wash this towel when it’s dirty, and you don’t want it to shrink after you sew it!
Place the dish towel on a flat surface with the wrong side facing up. (There may be a wrong side with the pattern, or it might just be visible seams.)
Fold each side of the dish towel inwards to meet in the middle so that it is the same width as the pot holder. You may need to overlap the edges.
Flip the towel over, then fold in half. Now fold the pot holder in half with right sides facing out. Slide the pot holder into the fold.
Now the towel will be folded in half and the pot holder hanger will be in half and you won’t have to measure anything!
Clip or pin the folded crease. No need to make any lines with a marker or chalk!
Sew a straight line across the crease with your sewing machine, being sure to backstitch at the beginning and end to secure the stitching!
Only one step left to do! I told you this was an easy sewing project!
Hand sew a button to the top center of the pot holder (the side without the loop). Be sure the button is small enough for the pot holder loop to go over, but big enough to keep it secured.
That’s it!
Watch me make this Pot Holder Kitchen Towel in my YouTube video below:
You can toss this hanging towel into the washing machine just like your other dish towels. No need to hand wash!
We love making these for the holidays to add seasonal decor to the kitchen.
Add a cookbook, cooking utensils or other kitchen essentials with this pot holder hanging kitchen towel to make great gifts for these occassions:
- Holiday gifts
- House-warming
- College
- Wedding
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These hanging dish towels are so popular and well-received, yet so inexpensive to make, that they are perfect to sell at craft fairs!
You can make one for about $2.50, but you can easily sell them for $5 each. Not bad to make a few dollars for one line of stitching and sewing a button!
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