No matter what your decorating style you can create beautiful embellished hand towels to customize your home decor inexpensively. While you CAN sew on your ribbon or fabric, hot glue is the quickest and easiest, this towel is meant for decoration only, not daily use, and shouldn’t require washing. Ribbon is so cheap and comes in such a wide variety of colors, pattern, and textures that it makes wonderful embellisment on just about anything. If you have a particular theme or color scheme in your kitchen or bath you are surely able to find a ribbon to go along with it. I hope you enjoy this simple DIY embellished hand towel craft to dress your bathroom or kitchen decor.
DIY Embellished Hand Towel Tutorial
Embellished Hand Towel Supplies Needed:
- Hand towel
- ½” ribbon or fabric strip
- buttons or other small embellishments such as rhinestones or shells
- hot glue gun
DIY Embellished Hand Towel Directions:
Choose a hand towel in a color to coordinate with your space- I was able to pick this one up for just $2.00 and it is pretty thick and lush.
Open folded towel completely, find the “bottom front” side of your towel. Measure ribbon by spreading it out across the bottom and cutting it even with the finished edges of towel.
Run hot glue on ribbon in a zig zag pattern, 3” at a time, begin on one end and smooth across the towel where you want it. Continue all the way across. Let it dry for 2-3 minutes.
Fold your towel up as if it is ready to hang, find the front. Lay out your buttons or other embellishment items to find a pattern you like, then secure them down with glue, allow to dry for 2-3 minutes.
Your embellished hand towel is now ready to hang and enjoy! It should only need to be dusted off, if it does need to be washed you should be able to hand wash, hang to dry and hit the non embellished areas with an iron to crisp it up a bit. I hope you have fun with this craft to create an embellished hand towel to perfectly match your decor. You can also make holiday themed embellished towels as fun DIY gifts for others. If you make a DIY embellished towel, please share a photo with us @familyfocusblog on twitter, facebook, or instagram! We’d love to see it!
These would be so cute for gifts. I love that there is no sewing involved. 🙂
Aleene’s makes a permanent fabric glue that is washable. I hang my hand towels directly up and to the left of my sink, so they do get used as well as looking pretty.
Thanks for the idea!
Nice job.
I too did this last week, but I used 8×10 felt and glass gems. Used Mod Podge and they came out beautifully.
Great idea. In the future when I want to get new fancy towels for display only I will use this idea and not have to pay the exorbitant prices. Thanks for sharing.