Holiday Tea Towel

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For the next couple of weeks I’ll be featuring handmade holiday finds. Whether you make it or buy it, bring some handmade into your holidays this year!

I love Betz White’s new Holiday Tea Towel. The best thing about this tea towel is that you can cut it up and make stuff, or just use it as a tea towel on its own. Betz is having a special in her shop through Friday, so you can get one for a gift and keep one for yourself at a discounted price. Make coasters (Betz has posted a tutorial to make the coasters you see below), ornaments, and a pillow and turn it into more gifts!

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Holiday Hot Pad Tutorial

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Check out my simple instructions for making this hot pad for the holidays over at Skip to my Lou’s Handmade Holiday series.

I used my new Garden collection for Kokka, which will be available in the next couple of months. (Those are my Folk Modern tulips in the background, which you can find here and here). The pattern is adapted from my Ticking Stripe Hot Pad pattern in 1, 2, 3 Sew.

Since I’ll be selling some things at the Indie Craft Experience’s Holiday Shopping Spectacular this weekend, I made a few extra.

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Check out other posts and giveaways in the series on Skip to my Lou!

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Fabric Stacks

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This fabric is cut and ready for the Indie Craft Experience! I’ll be selling fat quarters from my Stamped and Folk Modern collections along with copies of my books. And I am about to start sewing up some zippered pouches. My friend Laura of Felt Jar will be selling her meticulously felted tiny things! So stop by and see us this weekend.