Bathroom Update: Bath Mat Tutorial

Edited: All the images were hosted off site and have now disappeared I am slowly fixing this error. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Remember back here when I showed you my plainer than plan bathroom. It was screaming out for some colour and since I am on a limited budget, I did what any crafty diy-er would do. And set about sewing, printing and framing things.

I also wanted two colourful bath mats for the room. You might be wondering why I needed two, but I am sick of a soaking wet floor from Caden hoping in the shower but forgetting to get the mat from the bathtub first. So I grabbed a cheap bath towel from the shops and decided to use a Dream On Charm pack because I just love that fabric line and it goes with the lovely green towels I bought for the bathroom.

For one of the mats I patched together the top with a mix of the charm pack and towelling (left over from cutting the two mats out of the towel).

1x bath towel, 1x hand towel, 1x bath mat to take measurements from

towels cut to size

charm squares all placed out ready for sewing

Press the seam to one side.

stripes of towelling

Top all pieced together

This step is optional, but I zigzag stitched the edges of the towelling to minimise piling.

Lay out towelling how you would like and them pin to top.  Don't be afraid to use a lot of pins!

Zig zag stitch towelling to the patchwork squares

Pin right sides together and sew around the edges leaving a gap for turning

Don't forget to clip the corners

Now it is time to top stitch

To enhance it's durability I quilted along two of the towelling strips.

Ta da! All finished!

For the other mat, I decided to try something a little different and decided to sew some towelling feet on top of the patchwork charm squares, it is my kids bathroom after all so I wanted to keep it a little playful. But I will leave that for another post as I have already overloaded you with photos!

Stay tuned for more bathroom updates, I still have a few more things I want to do. Hopefully it wont be raining next week and I will be able to get you some decent photos of the whole room.



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