Calender towels
09-20-2012, 04:48 AM
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Calender towels
Can anyone help me figure out what to do with old cloth calender towels. My mom just passed away in August and going thru things I find she has calender towels as far back as the 60's. My children remember them growing up and actually someone bought her one every christmas. Since they are sentimental to all of us I would like to do something with them other than just hand them out. Any suggestions????
09-20-2012, 05:09 AM
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My friend that was in her 90's made quilts out of them. She advertised in a free publication and added to her stash and was able to make 6 or 8 quilts out of the calender towels. Since they were not all the same size she had to add borders to some of the towels to make them the same size. They turned out really nice.
09-20-2012, 05:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Patched
My friend that was in her 90's made quilts out of them. She advertised in a free publication and added to her stash and was able to make 6 or 8 quilts out of the calender towels. Since they were not all the same size she had to add borders to some of the towels to make them the same size. They turned out really nice.
09-20-2012, 06:07 AM
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I'm sorry to hear about your mom. I like everyone's ideas about making a quilt out of them. If you have some left over or some with some stains which won't come out you could make really cute house slippers and guest slippers out of them. there was a great flickr post I found the other day on the topic. *searching*
here's the flickr pic with link to her blog and instructions on how to make them.
It's off topic, but if your mother was an avid baker or loved to cook I saw a great idea for transforming handwritten recipe cards into tea towels. It's also a nice way of remembering someone and very useful as well. Here's the link if you're interested: http://blog.spoonflower.com/2012/07/...ea-towels.html
here's the flickr pic with link to her blog and instructions on how to make them.
It's off topic, but if your mother was an avid baker or loved to cook I saw a great idea for transforming handwritten recipe cards into tea towels. It's also a nice way of remembering someone and very useful as well. Here's the link if you're interested: http://blog.spoonflower.com/2012/07/...ea-towels.html
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