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How to Make Bath Towels Into Hand Towels

When you're trying to save money, it's hard to make room in your budget for house basics like hand towels and washcloths. Fortunately, you don't have to purchase these things often when you know how to recycle your old bath towels. Knowing how to turn a bath towel into hand towels or washcloths isn't difficult and serves as an environmentally friendly way to save money.

Things You'll Need

Measuring tape
Scissors
Fabric glue
Border roll

Instructions

- 1
  Select a large bath towel measuring at least 27 by 52 inches.
- 2
  Cut the towel in half width-wise down the middle. This leaves you with two towel pieces measuring approximately 14 by 26 inches, give or take a few inches. A standard hand towel is approximately 16 by 30 inches, so cutting a standard bath towel in half will give a rough equivalence of these measurements.
- 3
  Flip each square of towel over so that the fluffiest side is facing downward. This is the side that is most absorbent and has the most texture. Squeeze a thin line of fabric glue along all the inner edges of each square.
- 4
  Fold in the edges of all sides of the towels by a 1/4 inch. Squeeze a second line of glue down each folded edge.
- 5
  Measure and cut eight strips of border to fit along the sides of each of the new towels. For instance, each towel may need four lengths of border measuring 8 inches.
- 6
  Press the plain edge of each border to the glued side of the edges of each towel. Make sure the decorative part overlaps the edge by 1/2 inch or more. Let the hand towels dry for 10 minutes. Flipping them over shows perfectly hemmed edges with the border of your choice neatly outlining them as an embellishment.

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