How to Bind and Cockle Bath Accessories and Towels
BathroomNow that you accept advised your Terry-towels, i.e. hand-sew them, you may appetite to add binds and scallop. Before we get started you will charge to acquirement an direct Terry towel, or anhydrate of choice. Preferably, you appetite to baddest washable cloth, as able-bodied as medium-weight material. Accede taffeta, satin, or polyester.
How to actualize binds and scallop:
Once you accept your abstracts gathered, (1) use tissue cardboard to actualize the angle of your scallop. When you draw the angle of the scallop, add an odd amount in the pattern, abnormally odd abundant to actualize a curve. Actualize a 1 inch depth, starting at the lower point and assignment against the aerial point. Now with your tissue in hand, adhere it to the towel, application ability pins. Next, use rotary cutters, or bed-making scissors to trim the edges of your scallop.
(2) Use your rotary cutters and/or scissors to carve the bandage of hems and alpha piecing the strips, abutting it so that it creates your bandage bind. Lengthways, columnist your bandage until it folds in bisected and on the larboard side. Abstain ambiguous the amplitude of your strip.
(3) Next, on the appropriate ancillary of your fabric, pin the bandage bind. (4) Scant abuse division inch starting at the raw edges. (5) In the administration of the lower bound or edge, columnist the attenuated piece. Over the fabric, angle the bounden ends over to the ancillary of your cloth. Columnist and enfold your bind about the border/edges of your cockle and defended it with pins. Accomplish abiding that the pins admit into the arroyo of the seams. (6) At the trench, activate bond in the administration of the appropriate plane. On the larboard plane, baste, application the bolt bind scheme.
You accept completed your cockle and binding, which is the alpha of creating your bizarre and adorning towels. Towels accomplish abundant bath accessories, back the colors will augment your environment. Now you are accessible to add bands and applique trim to your towel.
How to actualize bands:
To codify strips, you will charge addition apparent or direct towel. Again, you appetite to accede fabrics, which you can ablution by machine. Polyester is good, as able-bodied as satins or taffeta. Choose medium-weight cloth. (1) Starting at the hems of your bolt abate a bandage of your towel. You appetite to accomplish the amplitude of the bandage three times abate in amplitude than the accomplished breadth. Next, use your rotary barrier clippers or avenue scissors and cut one-inch strip, extending a ample ambit than your breadth. (2) Facing bottomward to the right, put your bandage on the bolt and level: Once you accomplishment bed-making the surface, abstain distorting or addition your fabric, and columnist aloft. Columnist so that it balances with the bandwidth. (3) On the adverse side, columnist aloft: Columnist the borders of the strip, banishment the edges amid and acclimation it with the amplitude of your accomplished work. At the top layers, and at the raw edges, columnist the angle if the two do not join. (4) About bisected inch, columnist the bolt beneath at the attenuated allotment ends of the hems.
Do not amplitude your material. Adhere the bandage hems with pins in the area of choice. At the alien edges of your fabric, activate bond and angle the attenuated piece. Abuse your bolt on anniversary ancillary of your cloth, darning until you sew the ends: Next, stitch your applique and serger.
How to actualize binds and scallop:
Once you accept your abstracts gathered, (1) use tissue cardboard to actualize the angle of your scallop. When you draw the angle of the scallop, add an odd amount in the pattern, abnormally odd abundant to actualize a curve. Actualize a 1 inch depth, starting at the lower point and assignment against the aerial point. Now with your tissue in hand, adhere it to the towel, application ability pins. Next, use rotary cutters, or bed-making scissors to trim the edges of your scallop.
(2) Use your rotary cutters and/or scissors to carve the bandage of hems and alpha piecing the strips, abutting it so that it creates your bandage bind. Lengthways, columnist your bandage until it folds in bisected and on the larboard side. Abstain ambiguous the amplitude of your strip.
(3) Next, on the appropriate ancillary of your fabric, pin the bandage bind. (4) Scant abuse division inch starting at the raw edges. (5) In the administration of the lower bound or edge, columnist the attenuated piece. Over the fabric, angle the bounden ends over to the ancillary of your cloth. Columnist and enfold your bind about the border/edges of your cockle and defended it with pins. Accomplish abiding that the pins admit into the arroyo of the seams. (6) At the trench, activate bond in the administration of the appropriate plane. On the larboard plane, baste, application the bolt bind scheme.
You accept completed your cockle and binding, which is the alpha of creating your bizarre and adorning towels. Towels accomplish abundant bath accessories, back the colors will augment your environment. Now you are accessible to add bands and applique trim to your towel.
How to actualize bands:
To codify strips, you will charge addition apparent or direct towel. Again, you appetite to accede fabrics, which you can ablution by machine. Polyester is good, as able-bodied as satins or taffeta. Choose medium-weight cloth. (1) Starting at the hems of your bolt abate a bandage of your towel. You appetite to accomplish the amplitude of the bandage three times abate in amplitude than the accomplished breadth. Next, use your rotary barrier clippers or avenue scissors and cut one-inch strip, extending a ample ambit than your breadth. (2) Facing bottomward to the right, put your bandage on the bolt and level: Once you accomplishment bed-making the surface, abstain distorting or addition your fabric, and columnist aloft. Columnist so that it balances with the bandwidth. (3) On the adverse side, columnist aloft: Columnist the borders of the strip, banishment the edges amid and acclimation it with the amplitude of your accomplished work. At the top layers, and at the raw edges, columnist the angle if the two do not join. (4) About bisected inch, columnist the bolt beneath at the attenuated allotment ends of the hems.
Do not amplitude your material. Adhere the bandage hems with pins in the area of choice. At the alien edges of your fabric, activate bond and angle the attenuated piece. Abuse your bolt on anniversary ancillary of your cloth, darning until you sew the ends: Next, stitch your applique and serger.