Kitchen towels: comfortable size and the recommended tissue

Towels and pot holders are part of the kitchen interior, those accessories that enhance its brightness and originality. Especially if they sewed these textile products with their own hands.

Kitchen towels with their hands Tips for the hostess

With self-manufacturing of such products should consider:

• colors;
• the cloth;
• Holder type;
• manufacturing technique;
• and, of course, size.

Recommended sizes of kitchen towels

You can make towels of any size and shape. However, there are some standard options.

Experienced mistress opt for a rectangular piece of fabric or 30h60sm 40h70sm. Please note that the creation of such towels need to cut the material with a margin of 0.5-1cm seam on each side.

However, sometimes the gap is neglected. If you want to decorate the edge of the tape, cloth of another color, lace knitting, margin size can not lay.

In matters of size and shape is best to adhere to accepted standards, displaying their individuality and creativity in the selection of colors, materials, decoration, type holder.

Decorating kitchen towels: suitable art technology

There is admissible to show imagination. There are a few common needlework techniques that are appropriate in this case.

• Embroidery.
  

  Beautiful kitchen towel with embroidery

Well suited quiet, cross, ribbons. The main thing is to choose a sufficiently durable and resistant thread of harmonious hues, find or think of drawing.

The color of embroidery should be combined with the fabric, which is made from a towel. And with the color solution of the kitchen interior. With shades of the tiles on the walls, furniture accessories, table cloths and curtains.

You can use any image, but increasingly using: floral motifs, ethnic designs, pictures of vegetables, fruits, animals.

• Patchwork

Patchwork - the creation of textile products from certain patches. Masters of this technique are doing so the whole picture. Although tea towel to turn into a work of art is impractical, it is quite possible in this way to decorate a little, giving it a personality.

For example, it is possible to make a multi-colored edging around the edge. It looks unusual and attractive, making more durable towel. A good solution is to manufacture a decorative and practical holder of patches.

• Crochet.
  

  Tying towels openwork border

Hook - a versatile tool with a wide range of possibilities. In this case, it can be used to make a spectacular lace tying towels around the edge, reliable and beautiful holder. It is only important to choose a good yarn that would be strong enough to not fade and are in harmony with the other elements of the kitchen design in color.

Neat, elegant, unusual decoration kitchen accessories with your hands can give the room an extra comfort and originality.

Original and convenient holder for towels

Holder - the element, via which the towel hung on a hook or specifically designed handle. This may be a simple little loop of the same fabric as the towel itself. But there are other, more unusual and striking options.

For example, you can perform the holder as a complete composition of the patches. In a cat's muzzle, a bouquet of flowers, teapot. It is possible to link this item of colored woolen thread. This will enhance its durability and reliability. And so on. Here you will only limit the imagination.

The choice of fabric for practical towel

Dishcloth okay to absorb moisture, easy to wear, be strong. These criteria are best suited to the natural linen and cotton.

Comparison of these materials is given in the table.

linen	cotton
care Features	erase mode gentle washing at 30-40 ° C	erase mode gentle wash at 30 ° C
strength level	2 times higher than that of cotton	high
The ability to absorb moisture	very high	very high

Len is more convenient, but the properties of the finished textile products not only depend on the selected material. And the cotton, and flax do different kinds of tissue: smooth, waffle, terry.

In place of cooking is best to use the latter two options, they effectively absorb moisture.

• Wafer materials.
  

  Waffle towel across the surface has flat boxes improvers hydroscopic

They represent a cotton fabric with a surface of the characteristic squares. Hygroscopicity of the textile is slightly higher than the nearest competitor, as well as strength.

• Dressing materials.
  

  Soft and light bath towels will be used for any kitchen

They resemble small nap, made of cotton or linen, often with the addition of synthetics. Thanks to the latter are easier to wash.

What matter choose to create stylish accessories for the kitchen, you decide.

Decorate your home, sew original and interesting kitchen towels with their hands!

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