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Bite-Sized Sewing: Shabby Chic Ruffled Towels

September 5, 2013 By Sarah Westover McKenna Leave a Comment

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Bite Sized Sewing Shabby Chic Ruffled Towels Not long ago I contributed these Shabby Chic Ruffle Towels on Craft Snob’s Bite Sized Sewing Series.  Today I am excited to share that sewing tutorial with you.  It goes with the Shabby Chic Flower tutorial that I shared a while back.

I love sewing, and I love quick crafts, so when I was got the opportunity to contribute to this fun series I jumped on it!  My husband is a medical resident, so our little family is living with my father in his big, empty house (he is a widower) during my husband’s training in order to save money and start paying back those crazy student loans of his.  This year my dad and I decided to redecorate and remodel much of the house.  Everything was untouched from my mama’s early 1990s peach and blue decor, and it was really time for an update.  For most of the house he has made me stay plain, simple, and more masculine, but in the main floor powder room he said I could go a little nuts.  And so I went as feminine as I thought he could actually stand.  Pretty gray cabinets, with curly aged silver knobs from Anthro, a fun, wavy silver mirror, and a lovely blue on the walls aside from an accent wall that is a subtle white wallpaper with tiny silver flecks on it.  I am making a fun wreath covered in shabby chic flowers for the accent wall to bring in the blue and some other color, but I decided that wasn’t enough: I needed some hand towels with pizazz.  And thus these towels were born.

Are you scared of ruffles?  Don’t be!  They are so easy!  I whipped out these towels in a hurry.  Yes, I have sewn a LOT of ruffles in my day, but I am no extraordinary seamstress by any means, so I know that you can do it too!  Let me walk you through the steps.
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Start by cutting off part of your hand towel.  I got this cute one at Target and cut off 4 inches from the bottom.  I actually wish I had cut off 1/2 inch to an inch more.
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Cut the ruffles for your towel.  I chose two fabrics and used one ruffled from one fabric and two ruffles from the other fabric.  My towel is 16 inches wide, so I cut my ruffles 22 inches long  and 3 inches wide.  I like to do about a 1.5 ratio on the length of my ruffles unless I want BIG ruffles on something like a dress for my daughter, in which case I would double the length of the original item.
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Iron THREE of the sides of your ruffle with a small hem, about 1/4 inch wide.  I wanted to keep my top open so it would fray a bit and look “shabby chic.”
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Sew down your three sides on each ruffle.
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Now baste along the top edge of each ruffle.  Basting is sewing with a very long stitch.  DO NOT backstitch on either end of this.  You need the thread loose so that you can do the next step.
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Use your hands to create the ruffle now.  Hold onto one of the strings and simply push and scrunch the fabric gently until you have created a ruffle. Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Once you have gathered the ruffle spread it evenly.  Pin it onto your towel using
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Arrange the ruffle so that you end up pinning it onto the towel evenly spread out.  Pin it very, very well.
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Once the pins are places you should tie off the threads with small knots. to keep your ruffle in place.
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Now carefully stitch your ruffle onto your towel.  Be sure to set your sewing machine’s stitch length back to the regular amount and to backstitch at the start and finish of each ruffle, just as you always would.
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Now repeat this process with the next two ruffles!
Ruffled shabby chic towels are a simple way to personalize your home! Ta-da!  You are finished!  Wasn’t that simple?  I love how they turned out.  And if you want to invest a bit more time in this project and add some extra oompf to it then you can create some Shabby Chic Flowers using my tutorial.  Happy creating!
Shabby Chic Flowers and Ruffle Towels are a fab, simple way to add flair to your home!

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Sarah Westover McKenna

Sarah Westover McKenna

Sarah is the scattered creative mind behind Bombshell Bling. A former elementary school teacher and a current stay-at-home mom, she loves developing her creativity through her blog and her jewelry design business, Bombshell Bling Jewelry. Sarah is a lover of all things vintage, colorful, and BLING. She is also a sweets addict with a major obsession with s'mores.
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