Kitchen Towel Makeover

I found these adorable recipe cards a few weeks back & decided to jazz up a plain kitchen towel, put them together, and make a fun & personal little gift!

I dug through my fabrics and found a few that would work perfectly!
I cut a {long} strip of each using my handy-dandy rotary cutter.

Then I stitched a small hem around them all.
{I forgot to take pictures of the next steps & in the meantime burned my leg on the iron. Yes, my leg. I was being really smart and had in on the floor. No, Emma was not awake-I am smarter than that at least!!}

I pleated each strip, pinning & ironing as I went. I wasn't extremely precise. I just eye-balled it & used the pattern on my fabrics as a guided instead of measuring. It was the first time I had pleated anything & just figured it out as I went. I'm sure there are probably lots of good tutorials out there though!

Next, I sewed each strip on the bottom of the towel at different levels.

I sewed on a little ric rac to the top of the pleats that showed.

Last I made a fabric yo-yo out of one of the fabrics, sewed on an old button & added that for a little extra pizazz!
The finished product:
I tied up the towel & cards...what a fun little treat waiting for a guest! :)

I can't wait to make more & try out something different!