Just discovered I paper towels last week! Was going to purchase but a local fabric store had a great sale on flannel. Coming from a sewing family I decided to give it a go! The hardest part was picking a fabric! I love fabric! I bought a cute insect print with a coordinating solid. I’ve debated washing first. Your video has given me everything I need to feel confident moving forward. I’m also thrilled that you didn’t round up the edges. Now I just need a server! Thank you!
Thank you! Yes it really is a money saver. And they just go right in the wash that you're already running! Thank you for watching and glad to have you 💖
I am planning to use my older linen tea towels. I had been thrifting my many tea towels . Now I have another repurpose for them for kitchen towels. I know I have other flannel fabrics in my stash waiting for this challenge. Thank you.
I have some old ratty dish towels and bath towels I think I will upcycle. I have thick diaper cloths from the infant isle. Flour sack towels are nice for food usage too
1of2shoes Debbie honestly, I don't utilize mine nearly to it's potential. I know there is so much more cool stuff you can do with a serger, I just never learned how.
When using the serger, you didn’t have to tuck the tails in of the thread? I am new to sewing. Just teaching myself both the sewing machine and the serger. Everything says I need to tuck the tails or sew them back in. The unpaper towel is the very first reason I wanted my moms old serger and sewing machine. I love this project!
Katy, I did end up pulling a thread to make it form a knot. You could tie a real knot if you wanted or instead of chain stitching them, you could turn each corner so that you only had the one set of end threads. Does that make sense? How special that you have your mom's old machines. Both my regular machine and my server were my grandmas that she gave me and they're so special to me!
There is a little tool to pull the serged tread back through itself to eliminate that problem. The tool is called a knit picker latch hook. I bought the Dritz one.
If you don't have a serger, most machines come with an overcast foot that sews a stitch like a serger. Check your machine stitch menu and foot box that came with the machine. If you are not comfortable youtube a tutorial on your machine model.
I'm a full time camper and i think unpaper towels may be a better storage option. Are your towels single ply or did you serge two pieces of fabric together? Thank you
Black Friday sales and Christmas are coming up so maybe you could find a good deal on one! I don't do anything special with mine. I just throw them in the wash with my towels and dry with them as well.
Yes that should work! You'll get some fraying until those tiny threads come off but it should be much better than if you had cut it with regular scissors!
Yes, I'm still using them and they've held up amazingly! Some of them are pretty stained but I'm so happy with how well they work! I don't know about flanelette...that's a new one for me.
So according to a google search it sounds like flanelette is 100% cotton that's been brushed to make it initiate flannel. It sounds like it should work good 😉
@@thislovelylittlefarmhouse Thank you! I have lots of different fabrics here but I had ordered "Flanelette" and Quilting Cotton Remnants from Fabricville last year for $23.99/10m and $30.00/10m on sale and have never actually had "Flannel" to do a comparison, lol. I am going to try it out, I like your method best out of all that I have seen! Have you tried giving them a good HOT/partially boiling water soak with some Oxi Clean in a bucket? Usually gets out a good bit of staining for me! Thanks so much for the response, this is going to be on my winter projects list!
@@thedrunkengardenernb I haven't tried any type of stain removal. Since they're only cleaning rags, the stains don't bother me at all. When I eventually need to make a new batch, I'll probably just try to get a darker flannel so the stains aren't as noticeable.
@@thislovelylittlefarmhouse True enough! I'm considering making some napkins similarily styled in a different print so was curious but also leaning towards the darker coloured fabrics. Thanks again!
Leslie Nault if you're using a regular machine with a zigzag stitch, you can put your needle down at each corner then turn and stitch to the next corner. So instead of chain stitching, you could do all 4 sides of each one and then backstitch a few times to kind of "tie off" the threads when you're finished stitching and ready to cut the threads. Does that make sense? With the serger, I just pulled one of the threads on each corner to make a little knot in the threads after I finished stitching all of the edges.
