Tues Tutorial~ Kitchen Towel Boa (Technique 1)

    It takes about a year for me to use a roll of paper towels, because I'm a big user of washable towels.  I was scratching my head when people were freaking out about not finding paper towels during the big virus. 

   I also don't have cabinet door knobs or an oven handle to hang towels like a lot of people do.  I had seen these kitchen towel boas, and knew that would be a great resolution for busy cooking days. After doing some online research, I found there were basically 2 ways to put these together. Here is one way. 

 

 

 

 

 Cut towel in half. Fold towel at the cut edge in half and as you like. You can double fold, pleat, whatever you desire. Then measure that final width to help determine how much fabric to cut.

 

 

Determining fabric:

Example:

Final width of folded towel is 5 inches. 

5 inches x 2= 10 inches + 1 inch (for seam allowances)= 11 inches.

Cut 11 inches of fabric across the width of fabric. 

Make sure your fabric is 42 to 45 inches wide. 

Judge this length by the height of the user. In order for boa to be used to lift hot dishes, the towels do need to be below waist.

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 For the first technique, fold the fabric right sides together length wise.

Then stitch leaving an opening in the center. 

Press open seam.

 On each end,

press opposite of seam to determine center.

 Match the seam to the pressed mark just made.

This centers the seam.

 Slide one piece of the towel

through the center opening

up to the end.

matching the pleat

to the seam which is laying in the center

by matching the pressed mark just made.

 

 

Make sure all edges are even

on front and back.

 Stitch across about 1/2 inch from opening edges.

 Turn inside out through center opening.

 Top stitch to strengthen.

After both ends are finished,

stitch closed the center along the edge as close as possible,

or hand stitch closed.

 I added a border to towel

which did not have the hanger.

 

Hopefully technique 2 will be next Tuesday?

 

 

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