I’m back with my Super Towel Tutorial.

I made 7 ~ one for each of my cousins ~

• 7 tea towels {I think mine were about 16×24″}
• 1/2 yard of 54″ wide fabric {washed & pre-shrunk}
• 6.5 yards 1.5″ wide grosgrain ribbon
• 2/3 yard skinny ribbon {for loops}
• 1.5-2 yards thinner ribbon or ricrack PER PERSON {for optional waist tie}

Press the end of your tea-towel where the fabric will go.

Each towel will take about 7″ of fabric. Mine has polka dots on it, so I wanted the fold & rows to line up nice & straight.

But the built in rows made cutting pretty easy.

Don’t worry about folding the top edges under, they’ll be hidden by the ribbon. You do, however, need to fold the side edges in.

Press the edges nice & crisp.

Then just sew up one edge, across the top. & down the other edge.

If you’re going to embroider, do a few tests on scrap fabric.

After about 6 tests, I learned that the ribbon needed to be placed about 1/4″ above these dash marks on the embroidery hoop. Use a sturdy interfacing to add stability to the ribbon.

After you pop it out of the frame, use Stitch Witchery to glue the ribbon to the towel. I tried to sew it down but it just looked like poo. It

Don’t forget to fold under the raw edge!

Make 2 little ribbon loops.

I wanted my towels to fold so that the back edge of the towel hit the top ribbon. Measure to the top of the loop, not the middle.

Stitch in place.

I switched the bobbin thread to white, so you wouldn’t really see the loops from the front.

Thread through ribbon of choice.

All done!