As of: March 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m
By: Anne Hund
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As towels get older, they sometimes become thin and faded.
Or there are simply too many of them piled up in the cupboard or shelf.
Some towels are getting old, or you want to banish some from the bathroom shelf or closet due to lack of space.
But that doesn't mean that the towels automatically end up in the trash.
The terry cloth material can often be used for other purposes.
Here are a few suggestions on how you can create something new from old towels.
Towels are often piled up at home - some are already getting old.
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1. Bath mats
For example, you can easily sew a bath mat from two old towels by placing the two towels on top of each other and sewing them together at the edges.
You should then make the two fabrics non-slip with two diagonal seams, each of which runs from one corner to the opposite corner, according to
Radio Rainbow
.
And finally sew the hem at the corners.
It's even better if you put a non-slip pad on the bottom.
2. Cleaning cloth or washcloth
Faded or thin towels can easily be turned into cleaning rags or dusting cloths.
To do this, you should cut the towels into elongated rectangles and sew them together on the outer sides, recommends the portal
gofeminin.de
- so that the fabric does not fray.
Alternatively, with the right dimensions, new washcloths can be made from sewn together pieces of towel fabric.
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3. Cover for hot water bottle or grain pillow
Or you can use the towel material as a cover for a hot water bottle, as
Utopia.de
advises, or as a cover for a homemade grain pillow.
The cover for the grain pillow should be approximately one to two centimeters larger than the inner pillow, according to the sustainability portal.
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4. Floor mop covers
You can also sew covers for floor mops from old towels.
To do this, according to Radio Regenbogen,
you should
place the wiper “on the head of the towel”.
And cut the fabric generously along the edges - especially on the short sides, as the earlier online post says.
In this way, the leftovers could be folded over and sewn together at the end - so that the cloth holds on while cleaning.
If you want to go to the trouble, you can also sew in an elastic band.
To prevent towels from becoming hard after washing, you don't necessarily need a fabric softener.