Recycled Hand Towels

Good Morning,

I have downsized my linen closet because there are just many more things I could store there besides linen and came up with a pile of mostly gently used bath sized towels.  My DD says she's in need of hand towels in her bathroom... Hmmm... so here goes.

I laid out the bath towels and cut two hand towel sized pieces from them.

To do this I cut a crosswise strip from the towel that was about 15 inches wide.  Then I searched through my left over quilt bindings and found what I deemed suitable pieces and folding over about 1/4 in to the inside I stitched them on.

As you can see I used the walking foot and used a scant 1/4 inch seam.

The binding worked well.  I am kind of known for cutting the binding small so I am using left overs  that are only 1 3/4 inches wide.

 The result would be a bit different if you used 2 or 2 1/2 inch wide binding.  But I am very pleased with the result.  We'll see what my DD thinks about white hand towels.  I'm thinking with her crew she might have been hoping for something darker but c'est la vie.