Help with towels...
#4
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Central NJ
Posts: 5,572
I just rip off the strings and let the towels be afterwards. Does not seem to impact anything at all and, honestly, I don't even notice that the edge is not 'finished'. Now would I use them for guests? Certainly not. For just us, absolutely!
#5
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 2,243
As a former innkeeper, you can add bindings to the edges for a pretty look, or you can turn them into bathmats. I cover a towel with a little quilt top the same size, quilt minimally, and bind all the way around. Makes a great gift and also brightens up the bathroom.
#6
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 24,660
I overcast the frayed edges with a zigzag stitch or the serger.
I have even sewn towels that have torn - like gotten caught on something - back together with a darning stitch.
I was raised "frugally".
I even - way back when - would cut worn washcloths down the middle and sew the less used outside edges together. Now these washcloths are in the rag pile for icky clean-ups.
If the overcasting is done soon enough with matching thread, it is barely noticeable.
I have even sewn towels that have torn - like gotten caught on something - back together with a darning stitch.
I was raised "frugally".
I even - way back when - would cut worn washcloths down the middle and sew the less used outside edges together. Now these washcloths are in the rag pile for icky clean-ups.
If the overcasting is done soon enough with matching thread, it is barely noticeable.