How to sew an easy reusable gift bag using hand towels! This is a great way to upcycle cute hand towels that you’re not using.
Sometimes you end up with a pretty ridiculous number of hand towels, particularly seasonal ones, and they are EASY to upcycle if you’re interested. You can turn them into all sorts of things, including reusable gift bags like these!
The hand towel in the picture is actually from the Dollar Tree; I’d planned to make bags with these last year and life got away from me.
Learn more about grommets and how to install them.
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DIY Gift Bag from Dollar Tree Hand Towels
Here’s a video for the project:
Supplies:
- Dollar Tree Hand Towel
- Scissors
- Grommets
- Grommet Press
- Coordinating Fabric For Band
- T-shirt Yarn Or Ribbon
Tutorial:
- Cut your towel in half.
2. Face right sides together and pin.
3. Sew along the sides and the bottom.
4. You can stop here or add a boxy bottom like I did.
5. Cut a band. Mine is 5.5″ tall so it will be 2.75″ tall when folded over. Cut it the width of your bag (both sides).
6. Place your grommets (see grommet tutorial for more info).
7. Sew your band right sides together.
8. Fold band over, wrong sides together.
9. Pin your band in place with grommets in front.
10. Sew on your band. Don’t hit the grommet!
11. Top stitch the band and sew a casing.
12. Sew the casing.
13. Use a small safety pin to feed your ribbon or t-shirt yarn through the casing.
14. Feed the t-shirt yarn through.
15. Tie the ends of your ribbon or t-shirt yarn.
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