These DIY Hanging Kitchen Towels are perfect to give away as gifts for Christmas (or any other occasion) since they are so quick and easy to make! They are also great DIY farmhouse-style kitchen accessories.

Liz from Simple Simon & Co. designed the most genius hanging kitchen towel project. It’s made using a hot pad and a simple kitchen dishtowel. I love that she used towels from the Magnolia kitchen line (as it’s one of my all-time favorites).

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Hi, I am LiZ from Simple Simon and Company. I am excited to show you how to make one of my kitchen essentials: an oven-hanging dishtowel. I use these all the time, and they are super easy to make.

Hanging Kitchen Towel Required Supplies

Farmhouse style hanging kitchen hand towel

All you need to put one of them together is:

Shank button (this is a button that has the piece on the back; this differs from another button style where the holes are in the middle of the button).
A Dish Towel: I used one from the Magnolia line at Target.
Hot Pad with loop attachment: The loop can be on the corner or at the center.

Another Hanging Towel Sewing Tutorial

If you’d like to create a different type of hanging dish towel, be sure to check out our Fat Quarter Hanging Dish Towel Sewing Tutorial.

It is created using cotton webbing to both finish the raw edges of the fabric and create the loop to hang the towel.

Farmhouse style hanging kitchen dish towel

Farmhouse Style Hanging Kitchen Towel Tutorial

Liz Evans

Learn how to turn a purchased dish towel and a hot pad to create a cute dish towel that can hang on a handle in your kitchen.

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Prep Time 30

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Total Time 1 30

Equipment

supplies

1 Shank button
1 A dish towel I used one from the Magnolia line at Target
1 Hot pad with loop attachment

Instructions

What is a Shank Button?

There are three different buttons pictured here…all with shanks. Shanks are buttons with a “neck” on the back, usually centered on the back of the button with a hole in the middle of the neck that allows the thread to be passed through.

Construction Steps

Once you have your supplies gathered (including a needle, thread, scissors, pins, and a sewing machine), you can get to work. So let’s get started!

Step One:

First, fold your dish towel in half. Then, along that middle fold line, run a gathering stitch…and gather!
You can use a basting stitch on your sewing machine to gather the dish towel or you can hand gather the towel with a needle and thread.
Gather your dish towel until it is the same width as your hot pad. (The width of your hot pad from corner to corner on the diagonal.)

Step Two:

Once gathered, place your dish towel on the hot pad, as shown in the picture. (With the right sides together and the middle of the hot pad aligned with the middle of the dish towel.)
Note: Make sure that the hanging tab attached to the corner of your hot pad is placed at the top of your dishtowel and not along with one of the ends that will be sewn. Pin.
Sew the dishcloth and hot pad together. Once sewn, flip the hot pad/dish towel combo over to add the button. (It should look like the picture)

Step Three:

Your dish towel should now drape nicely from the bottom of your hot pad. Fold your hot pad in half again to find where to place your button.
This will depend on how long the hanging tab that came with your hot pad is. I placed mine about one inch down from the corner.
Hand sews your button onto your hot pad.
Now, you can loop the hot pad tab over your shank button!
Your hanging dish towel is ready to be placed on your oven bar!
Like I said,…so easy, and I love using them. They’re so handy that I have some in my kitchen at all times!

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About the Maker:

We are Elizabeth and Elizabeth, two girls who married brothers and ended up with the same name. We are also the same age, both former school teachers, have the same number of children, live in the same county, have dogs rescued from the pound, and share a love for sewing, quilting, and the art of homemaking.

Together, we blog at Simple Simon and Company, where we get the opportunity to share tips, tricks, tutorials, recipes, and thoughts with our readership.

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Hanging Kitchen Towel Required Supplies

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