How do you make tea towels?
#1
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Would you please tell me how to make white tea towels?
I would like to make my SIL some nice, sturdy, absorbent ones for a gift. (We used to use unneeded diapers, but today's diapers won't work LOL.)
What type/brand cotton, size, etc .?
Thank you very much,
Terry
I would like to make my SIL some nice, sturdy, absorbent ones for a gift. (We used to use unneeded diapers, but today's diapers won't work LOL.)
What type/brand cotton, size, etc .?
Thank you very much,
Terry
#3
Originally Posted by jljack
I have used bleached muslin, and just select it by "feel"...(stroking the fabric)...Yes, this one feels right!! :-)
how to make:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4780282_make-tea-towels.html
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Great link. Thanks.
that's my method also. :)
how to make:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4780282_make-tea-towels.html
Originally Posted by redkimba
Originally Posted by jljack
I have used bleached muslin, and just select it by "feel"...(stroking the fabric)...Yes, this one feels right!! :-)
how to make:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4780282_make-tea-towels.html
#5
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Unbleached muslin hemmed all the way around makes a very absorbent tea towel. They will embroider nicely also on your machine; however, the ones I have made from muslin wrinkle badly and I have to iron them each time they are laundered. I still prefer them, but when I give tea towels as gifts I buy ready made tea towels at Walmart and embroider those. I don't have any DILs who will iron a tea towel.
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I looked at some in Walmart earlier this year. The packages
were 4 or 5 towels and had a wide paper band around them.
I finally gotone wiggled around where I could get my finger
under one thickness of towel. They were very, very thin.
I order from Hersshners. I bought some a couple months ago
and they are very nice, just as they have been for 40 years.
They call them "feed sack towels".
were 4 or 5 towels and had a wide paper band around them.
I finally gotone wiggled around where I could get my finger
under one thickness of towel. They were very, very thin.
I order from Hersshners. I bought some a couple months ago
and they are very nice, just as they have been for 40 years.
They call them "feed sack towels".
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