Time for Tea

I dusted off my sewing machine today!! Look what I made....

What is it I hear you ask? (Not just you, Hubby said it too!)  Well its a tea towel hanging holder thing of course! A friend of mine has a shop bought one, its just a series of looped material used for storage, in her case tea towels. I wanted one as I have lost a drawer in my kitchen to tea towels and dish cloths and all my utensils are fighting for space in one very cramped drawer!

The same friend had given me some yummy tea towels as part of my Birthday present...

I loved them too much to use, I didn't want them all stained and burnt and faded! So of course in my mind they were the perfect material to use to make a holder! Here's what I did....
Well the condensed version as I pinned it all together and then had to unpin it again in order to be able to sew it how I wanted!

This is it pinned...
There are three towels, the bottom two are folded wrong sides together leaving about 1/4 spare at the top, the top one is folded about in half so there is a flap over the top. This is optional, it just worked for the best with my towels to keep the pattern the right way round!

The towels were then stitched together leaving the edges open for putting things in, and two bits of ribbon added for hanging it up

Done! I just need Hubby to get his hammer out now so I can hang it up and clear my drawer!

Hope you love this as much as I do!