Handmade Christmas Gifts — Liberty Hand Towels

I’ve been hav­ing a lot of fun sew­ing Christ­mas gifts lately.  It’s good to tick a few things of my list in the small amount of time I have avail­able to sew at the moment.   Today I’ve got anoth­er quick & easy tutori­al to share with you all!  Thanks to my favour­ite Liberty fab­ric sup­pli­er send­ing me the most gor­geous fab­rics I was able to make six of these Liberty  hand tow­els for some spe­cial people in our lives super fast.   If you’re after Liberty fab­rics you can grab yours from my friends at Ava & Neve.

The sup­ply list for this pro­ject is very small.   All you need is a Fat Eighth of Tana Lawn (Liberty F8th’s are lar­ger than a stand­ard F8), a store bought hand tow­el, your sew­ing machine and a few pins.

1. Start by meas­ur­ing the width of the hand tow­el.   The ones I pur­chased are just about 16 ¹⁄₂″ wide.
2.  Cut 2 — 4 ¹⁄₂″ strips from the Liberty fab­ric.   They will need to be at least 1 ¹⁄₂″ longer than the width of the hand tow­el, I cut 2 strips 4 ¹⁄₂″ x 18″.   Join the strips togeth­er using a ¹⁄₄″ seam allow­ance.  Press the seam open and then press in a ¹⁄₄″ hem on each long side of the joined strip.
3. Line the seam up on one side of the hand tow­el and pin in place as shown.
4. Next flip the strip over the front of the tow­el and pin through all three lay­ers at the top and bottom.
   
5. You’re going to end up sew­ing the front and back of the Liberty strip on in one go so this next bit takes a little bit of patience.   Start of the back of the hand tow­el.   Pop a pin ¹⁄₈″ from the hemmed edge straight through all three layers.
   
6. Now flip the hand tow­el back over to the front and make sure that the pin has caught the front strip.   Leave the pin in place while you secure with anoth­er pin.    Con­tin­ue until you have the top and the bot­tom of the Liberty strip in place.
   
7. Place the hand tow­el back on your cut­ting mat and trim the raw edges to about 1″ past the edge of the hand towel.
   
8. Bring the bot­tom of the Liberty strip  over the top of the hand tow­el and then turn a hem in line with the edge of the tow­el on the top of the strip and pin in place as shown.  With your sew­ing machine sew around all 4 sides of the strip ¹⁄₈″ from the hemmed edge.
   

Thats it!   Aren’t they a great little gift?  And, they sure are super quick to sew!    I don’t know about you guys but I know that my loc­al depart­ment store has great after Christ­mas sales so I think I’ll be stock­ing up on a few more hand tow­els to have ready for a quick last minute gift!

These look so sweet sit­ting on the counter in my bath­room, I kinda wish I had kept a few for myself!

Have a great week,