Easy Hanging Towel Tutorial

My pattern, based on the same premise as the Embroidery Library pattern, came out like this... it is so easy to make.

Hanging Towel Tutorial

What you need:

Dish towel
Coordinating fabric scrap 8 1/2" x 5"
Small scrap of interfacing 8 1/2" x 2 /12"
Thread
Scissors
Chalk

Cut 2












Cut fusing
pin to middle of fabric

Sew 1/4" around the scalloped edge

 Turn inside out and press with iron

 Find center, measure 2" from scalloped edge,
mark, on each side, measure in 1" from edge, mark

 Stitch a tight zigzag, if you have to, do it twice on each side like a large "button hole"

Cut top edge of towel

















Gather top edge of towel

Sew fabric to one side of gather towel

 Take the other side and tuck up inside the fabric, and pin

Top stitch to secure both sides

 Top stitch all the way around for fabric 

Prepare to cut the "button-hole" with seam ripper

To hang the towel slip over oven handle 

Pull through hole in fabric

This is a great quick and easy homemade gift idea.

Happy Sewing!

Thanks for stopping by!

Blogging Tag

Now I've been tagged, I received an e-mail from Meegan over at What Meegan Makes.  It said I had been tagged in a post and I need to come right over and check it out.

When I got there, she was answering questions for a fun blogging game.  I got to know a little more about Meegan and how her blog came about.  And she tagged 10 other bloggers including me.

Here are the rules to this little blogging game:

Rules:

1. You must post the rules!

2. Answer the 11 questions the tagger posted for you and then create 11 new questions to ask the people you've tagged.

3. Tag 11 bloggers and link them in your post.

4. Let them know you've tagged them.

I am tagging these bloggers that I would like to learn a little more about.

Connie - Quilting by the river

Katie - little becky homecky

Jamie - wayward girlcrafts 

Lina - Fancyfrugal Life

Erin -  How to Nest for Less

Linda - TWO*SUCCULENT*SISTERS

Annie - Annie's Ruby Slipperz 

Marilyn -  4 You With Love 

Amy - While Wearing Heels          

Adrianne - happy hour projects
Danielle - Blissful and Domestic

Here's the questions from Meegan:

1. How long have you been blogging?  

I have been blogging only since January of 2012.  I have been Blog Stoking since 2007, always looking for free patterns; my searches have taken me to some wonderful blogs and great pattern.

2. What do you love about blogging?

It's been so fun meeting new people and making new friends.  Everyone is so kind and supportive, some of you girls are very funny. 

3. What do you do when you have blogger's block and can't think of a new post? 

So far that hasn't happened. Course I only post 1 project a week.  Truth is I've thought about blogging for a few years.  I have tutorial photos for at least 5 more projects, that I've done over the past year.  I can always go to that file if I have a block....

4. What is your favorite room in your home and why? 

I would have to say the kitchen.  Not because it's large or fine, it's quite small.  (I live in a 900 square foot condo.)  It's because of all the wonderful smells and fantastic recipes I've acquired and created over the years.

5. What is your favorite dessert?

This is a tough question, I love chocolate and I love lemon.  So I have to go with Death by Chocolate, what a way to go.

6. What is your favorite band/singer? 

Another tough one!  I'm all 70's.  Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Ok, one band....... STYX.  I've seen them 20 times, at least, live.  I've seen them from  Alpine Valley, WI to Red Rocks, CO to a carnival cruise, Jamaica, and here,  I saw them in Oct 2011 at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC.  I love Tommy Shaw.

7. Florals or graphic prints? 

Florals, they make me feel all girly and romantic.

8. Who is your favorite blogger? 

I'm not sure I know how to define blogger, so it's an impossible question to answer.  But everyone I've asked for any kind help or direction, have been more than happy to direct me.  I'm so grateful.

9. What is your favorite HGTV show?  

I don't watch tv.  At one time, I loved Martha Stewart, until she went live, was she on HGTV?  I liked design on a dime.  So many great ideas for less money.

10. How do you like to spend your free time? 

If you can get me off the computer.......here in the South, there are thrift stores and consignment shops everywhere.  They are so much fun to go through.  There are many here, in Calabash, within walking distance.

11. What was the last thing you pinned on Pinterest? 

It was old fashion sugar cookies.  It's a tradition to make cookies when I visit the grandchildren.  Cutting them out in fun shapes and decorating them, of course the children mostly like to eat them.  But I'm always interested in a better recipe.

Thanks for tagging me, Meegan!  It was fun!

My emails:

seemooredesigns@gmail.com

cgammeter@yahoo.com

Connie @ Hot Flash'n Craft'n

Okay Girls, I hope you have as much fun as I did, I look forward to reading all about you and your blog, your tips, and advise. 

Now here are the questions I have for those bloggers I tagged:

1. How long did it take you to get your blog up and running smoothly?

2. What's your favorite herb, why, and do you make with it?

3. What's your best home remedy?

4. How do you get your whites, their whitest?

5. What's your last minute, homemade dinner?

6. What's your advise on growing your blog?

7. What's your favorite place you've visited and why?

8. Winter, spring, summer or fall?  Which is your favorite season, and why?

9. Who inspires you, most?

10. Where would a new blogger go or if you are a new blogger, where would you go, when you need help with setting up your PAGES if they want them different then blogger template offers?

11. In the summer, what is your favorite family activity?

Thank you Meegan, I enjoyed it.
Have a great day!

Questions and Answers From Night Owl Crafting

HOOOOOOOOO ARE YOU?
1. What do you look forward the most about springtime?
I love the smells of wisteria and jasmine in the air. The blooming colors of the azaleas and 70 degree days.
2. Do you have anyone in your immediate family that you
celebrate their birthday in the spring?
No birthday celebrations in the spring....
3. What is the weather like where you live in the springtime?
The weather in Carolina's is beautiful. Perfectly warm and occasional thunderstorm; we need the rain.
4. Do you do spring cleaning?
I spring clean all year long. I'd rather be crafting.
5. What activities do you do in the spring?
I've gone to Brookgreen Gardens at least 4 times. "There are 300 year-old Live Oak trees that were planted in the early 1700s when Brookgreen Gardens was a thriving rice plantation. It has the first public sculpture garden in America, has in its collection more than 1,400 works by over 350 sculptors. Exhibited within the gardens is the largest and most comprehensive collection of American figurative sculpture in the country, by sculptors who worked from the early nineteenth century to the present."

Happy Days.......

I'm so excited I can't stand it!  I bought this online last week.  It's suppose to be here tomorrow.  I've put off new projects because I want to do it with my new machine.

 Isn't she pretty......