Thursday, January 7, 2010

Cheap and fun craft

I was at Target today and it was empty because of all the snow...so I just took my sweet time and went down almost every aisle. I am sure some of you can relate! Looking for something I need that I didn't know I needed. Anyway, in the dollar bin (everything isn't a dollar anymore) they had these cute hotpads and it reminded me of a cute apron craft I saw a while back....right beside it were matching kitchen towels so I picked them up and headed home to make Molly a cute apron...

First, fold a dish towel in half and pin the pot holder on (about half way) I forgot to take a pic of that but you can look at the final pic to see placing. I sewed around the edge of the white piping to hide my stitching. You could sew straight across.

Then make a bow out of ribbon and sew on to the top of the pot holder ( I just used left over ribbon I already had).


I then pinned on equal amounts of length of ribbon to each side of the fold in the towel and sewed them on.

The last thing I did is pin and sew on a lenght of ribbon to go around the neck. I just made it big enough that Molly could just slip it on over her head and then I tie it in the back around the waist. Oh, I also snipped the loop off the hot pad....hmmm...looks like I need to iron out the pressed folds:)



6 comments:

teresa said...

darling idea. thanks for sharing. :)

Julie B. said...

Super cute, Abby! She looks adorable in it :)

smw said...

that is adorable. you have so much initiative and creativity!!

Penny said...

Very cute!

Nichole said...

Adorable Abby! Such a cute idea!

Tracy said...

Get outa town!! Too cute...Wish I could sew.