Tutorial: Flour Sack Tea Towel

This is an easy and fast tutorial on how to change a plain flour sack tea towel from boring to beautiful! Mine has a Christmas theme, but finish it anyway you like. The sky's the limit!

You’ll need the following:
 
Flour Sack Tea Towel (I got mine off Amazon)
Fabric
Ribbon, Pom-pom trim, rick-rack
Matching thread

1. Measure the width of the tea towel. Mine is about 19 inches wide.   
 
2. Cut a strip of fabric 2.5 inches x width of the tea towel + 2 inches. In my case it would be 2.5 inches x 21 inches. The extra 2 inches are for seam allowances on the sides of the fabric strip.
 
3. Measure 2.5 inches up from the bottom edge of the towel on the right side of the tea towel. Draw a line across the width of the tea towel using a water soluble fabric marker. Pin strip with right side facing down to the edge of marked line. On both sides you want an inch of fabric to hang over the edge. Sew in place using a ¼ inch seam allowance.

4. Fold strip over and press towards the top of the towel. Fold the opposite long edge of the strip ¼ inch under and press. Fold the sides of the fabric strip ½ inch under and then another ½ inch. Press. Pin everything in place and topstitch around all the edges.

5. Add any embellishment to make it look festive.
* When sewing with pom-pom trim I like to use my zipper foot. It just gives me a little more space when sewing the trim in place.

Once I started I couldn’t stop myself! Take a look at these: