Tues Tutorial~ Kitchen Towel Boa (Technique 2)

 Continuing from last week's first technique to make a Kitchen Towel Boa, here is the second method I found. It's a faster method once you get used to "blind" stitching by not being able to see how the stitching on the back side is going.  It took a couple of tries for me. Good luck.

 

 

 

 

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Tuesday Tutorial

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First cut the towel and fashion fabric like technique 1. 

Fold, press and stitch about 1 inch of each end of fashion fabric. 

 

 Stitch long seam from end to end.

No need to leave middle opening.

Press, to mark center opposite of seam,

like technique 1.

Match seam to pressed center fold.

Turn entire tube

right side out.

Slip the cut end of the towel 

about 1 inch inside the opening.

Match the center and sides the best possible.

As you pin,

be sure to catch the back side 

at the same 1 inch mark.

Don't try to top stitch along edge,

but rather about a quarter inch in,

because it's hard to work out the same on the back side.

Reinforce by using 2 top stitching rows.

 

 Instead of using pins

which moved the fabric too much

through so many layers,

pressed glue works great to 

hold long enough to stitch.

Be sure to press the glue

to dry it,

so not to get glue on

machine needle

or down into machine.

If the school glue is dry,

everything works ok.

 

So at this point,

the Kitchen Towel Boa

is DONE!

Don't have to stitch up an opening in middle.

 Which one did you like better?

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