First, pick out your fabrics. I like using woven cotton on one side and terry cloth on the other. Makes for a good weight so they stand up nicely on a vertial paper towel holder. And that way you have your "scrubby" side and your "pretty" side. My sister said her kitchen was brown and green, so here is what a trip to Joanns came up with:
Next, you're going to cut all of your fabric up. I made them 11" x 8"....came out a pretty good-looking size if you ask me. (Tip: If you are using more than one kind of material for the cotton woven layer, buy 1/3 yard of each. That's 12 inches, then you just slice it up into 9 inch pieces and you will automatically get 11x8 because of seam allowances)
After you've cut out all of your terry and cotton to the right sizes, you will take a piece of terry and cotton and put them right sides together....like this:
Now pin it together (or not if you don't want to) and sew around it with a 1/2 inch seam allowance, but leave an opening to turn it right side out, and then clip the corners to make it rounded to make it turn nicely:
Turn it right side out:
Now pin the opening closed by turning the two layers towards the inside so it looks like the rest of it. Then sew all the way around with as small of an allowance as you are comfortable with.
When you are done topstitching, tie knots with your threads, thread them onto a needle and pull them in between the two layers and cut so that the thread is lost inside. Does that make any sense?
Then, just attach your snaps and you're finished! I need to get a picture still of them all snapped up and finished. :)
Ohhh! Perfect! I was just wondering about how to make these! Thanks!!!
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