We sew a kitchen towel - a master class and do-it-yourself decor ideas

Kitchen towel do it yourself

What are kitchen towels for? To keep your hands clean, you say. But this is also one of the most important decorative components of the whole room. Moreover, it is easy to make them by hand, adding the necessary shades or patterns in the interior.

Kitchen towels

In order to sew towels on your own, you will need quite a bit - a suitable fabric, which is well absorbing moisture, and a sewing machine. Using a simple cut of fabric will require a minimum of effort from you, and if you want to create a handmade textile masterpiece for the kitchen, you can use buttons, ribbons, colored threads, appliqués and rags.

Design Ideas

The traditional shape of a kitchen towel is a rectangle. But add quite a bit of fantasy and get other interesting variations:

  • Kitchen Hand Towels with Holders - they can be hung on the handle of the cabinet or oven as in the photo below (scroll);
  • Kitchen towels with holders
  • Small towels that roll up. They are fixed among themselves by buttons. Buttons must necessarily be plastic, because kitchen towels are often washed. Such a roll is intended for a special napkin holder (vertical or horizontal);

Kitchen towels in roll

  • Products with children's applications, embroidery, print - especially for children to instill cleanliness and accuracy.
  • Baby towels

Choose a cloth for practical towels

To make your own hands not only beautiful, but also practical kitchen towels, you need to choose the right fabric. It must absorb moisture well and dry quickly. Cotton and waffle towels are best.

Cotton Kitchen Towel

But flax will acquire the necessary softness only after a few washes.

Linen Kitchen Towel

  • By the way, waffle fabric is the same cotton, but specially processed, thanks to which it has flat squares all over the surface that improve hydroscopicity.

tea towel

A good choice will be fine mahra.

Kitchen Terry Towel

Master class: how to sew a simple towel

So, let's move on to the crucial moment - how to make the cut of fabric become a quality finished product?

For the work you will need the selected fabric, sharp tailor scissors and sewing machine. Using scissors, you can cut out colored pieces for appliqués, as well as remove threads. Well, the machine is useful in order to hem the edges of the cut and fix the decor.

For kitchen towels, more colorful, variegated fabrics are more suitable, since the stained stains on them will be less noticeable.

Fabrics for sewing kitchen towels

The optimal size of a kitchen towel is 30x60 cm. Just such a product will be enough to wipe hands and a table, and also take hot dishes if necessary.

Kitchen towel sewing work begins with a pattern. We determine the size of the napkin and add to them 5-10 mm as an allowance for the seams on each side.

After that, gently bend the edges before stitching them. To do this, the fabric of 5 mm tucks twice, after which the strip is carefully ironed.

kitchen towel do it yourself

You can also use basting or sewing pins for fixing.

kitchen towel do it yourself


When the edges are defined, they are sewn with a regular seam. After stitching on 4 sides, we get a finished towel.

kitchen towel do it yourself

kitchen towel do it yourself

This is a very simple and traditional way without handling corners. But in this case, the filing of the corners is not needed, because this is not serving textiles, but “working”.

And do not forget to attach a wide loop in the upper corner so that you can hang a towel on the hook, and not just on the handle of the plate. For the loop can be used the same fabric, satin ribbon or ribbon.

But the idea is more interesting than a simple eyelet - a towel holder on a button. Sew it yourself is easy. Here is a visual master class.

DIY kitchen towel with holder

DIY kitchen towel with holder

DIY kitchen towel with holder


Decor ideas

And do not forget that you can embroider a finished kitchen towel with threads, decorate with applications, paint with paint, apply photo printing, embroider a monogram, etc. Here are the ideas of the decor, which are easy to do with your own hands (scroll the photo to the right).

  • DIY kitchen towel dye paint

Just choose the right thread for decoration and paint - they should not shed in hot water! And the rest, oddly enough, the most ordinary kitchen towels provide a huge scope for creativity and expression.

Pay attention also to our site guide in the section. Kitchen decoration and decor - site guide.

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4 Comments

  1. Lily says

    I liked how the towels look on a vertical holder, but for me it is more a decor than a practical thing. I once wanted to decorate my towels with embroidery, but I decided that then I would not use them, and did not dare to start work. Although these things look very cute and somehow comfortable at home.

  2. kitchen.htgetrid.com/en/ says

    We agree, some things are so beautiful that you don’t want to use them, just watch)

  3. Julia Devyatko says

    I have been making kitchen towels for quite some time. It is cheaper than buying in the store, and looks much more original. Buttons for fasteners, voluminous vegetables are made of cloth, but I haven’t tried painting towels yet.

  4. NeuroTechnic says

    There is no such term - hydroscopicity. There is a hygroscopicity 😉

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