There are many fantastic ways to DIY tea towels. For those who love to work with thread and needle, we have here a list of great sewing tutorials for making cute tea towels for your kitchen. Not only will these be fabulous for your own home, they're great as gifts as well. Some of these can be used for specific holidays but others are perfect all year. So take out your handy-dandy sewing machine and give these DIY tea towel tutorials a try.
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1. Ruffled
This is a lovely tea towel to sew for those who have lots of pretty fabric scraps. You will need to find strips of fabric for this project; square or round scraps will not work. A ruffler foot was used for sewing the trim of this DIY tea towel. If you don't have one, you can do it the manual way by pulling one of the threads until you ruffle the strip of fabric.
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2. Teapot
These are goshdarn cute! This particular DIY tea towel sewing project calls for some applique work. Martha provides the template for the teapot so you will need only pretty fabric, fusible webbing, iron, and other applique materials to make your lovely tea towel.
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3. Prairie Points
The printed fabric triangle trim that you see here are called Prairie Points. Aren't they cute? They are easy to make, too. You will sew two strips of fabric together. You then cut the sewn strips to make squares. After that, you fold these squares to make the Prairie Points. You then attach them to your tea towel. Fun, right?
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4. Notebook
I love all things notebook or notepad-inspired. If you feel the same, you will enjoy this fun tea towel tutorial. The blue lines for these towels were sewn using a machine. The thick vertical line in red, however, was embroidered.
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5. Tassel
The tassels for this DIY tea towel are made of embroidery floss. You can, of course, also buy ready-made tassels. I think they are available by yard in your craft store. Simply attach them by hand stitching to the short ends of your tea towel and you're done.
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6. Neon Bias
Adding bias tape to the sides of a tea towel is probably one of the easiest ways to do this project. But if you want your tea towels to showcase undeniable style, we suggest combining modern neon with a classic print. Case in point: this toile de jouy and neon combo.
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7. Crocheted
Oh, how gorgeous! When you're adding trim to your tea towels, you will want to consider the colors of your final products. The red and white crocheted sections work here because their hues can be found in the tea towels as well. Of course, if you want an attention-grabbing tea towel, you can choose a crochet trim that clashes with your fabric.
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8. French Cuisine Embroidery
This DIY tea towel project offers a pattern for the French cuisine embroidery. Since a lot of work will go into making this tea towel, maybe you can reserve this project for a hostess gift.
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I hope that you find inspiration from these simple sewing projects! Go ahead and and give some tea towels a makeover. Your kitchen will thank you for it.
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