Onebyone

The last few tea towels I have gotten as a gift, I can tell from the fabric they won't hold up to use. I use them as one time towels for potlucks. They do look nice just won't hold up.

oldtnquiltinglady

Muslin, the thin cheap one, is the best thing I have found to make dish towels. It is only 36" wide, so use the sides for your ends, and hem the long sides (I cut mine about 18" wide, so have about a 15" wide dish towel for using. That is for the ones to be used for drying towels. A heavier type cotton fabric (I think some folks use it for counted cross stitch) I cut into about 12" squares--my hands aren't very big, so can't squeeze out a big dish rag--and they are hard and rough for awhile until they get that used feeling to them, but it works for me. Do you knit or crochet. Some of my favorite dish rags are made by friends of mine who give them out at meetings, etc. as door prizes and little thank you gifts for cooking a dessert or some such. Just be sure to use pure cotton thread. Good luck. Please post your efforts in the future.

sak658

I love Missouri Star Quilt Co...tea towels, they are so big and nice and only $3.50 each...I have made two aprons out of them, using her tutorial...having trouble posting pics....

RedGarnet222

Here you go toweling by the yard.

http://boltfabricboutique.com/shop/

I have some I bought a while back, but haven't had the time to make them up yet. I also like to use the linen fabric you can gleen from old tablecloths.

FroggyinTexas

Me, too, only I get mine at Sam's Club. And because I don't have an embroidery machine, I applique something on them or put a ribbon of cute fabric on them. froggyintexas

adamae

Oh, yes....I like homemade ones, too. I found some really loosely woven fabric in my stash and hemmed some rectangles for tea towels, they really absorb well. BTW, Hemming tea towels was the first project we were given when my sisters and I learned to machie sew. That, and aprons....how I hated doing those small hems on apron ties! Today, I don't mind so much.

Krystyna

Has anyone used monks cloth? It is quite absorbent. The only problem I had was with a delicate design getting somewhat lost in the weave.

bearisgray

What type(s) of fabric(s) do you want to make them from??

Krystyna

I'm not fussy about the type. Just wondering what others found as a substitute for purchasing towels.