Making New Out of Old: Serged Dish Rags

With all the economic uncertainty, many people are doing their best to make every dollar count.  Here is a simple way to get more use out of old bath towels, hand towels, or kitchen towels by making cleaning rags.

home Making New Out of Old: Serged Dish Rags

For this tutorial, I will be re-using an old kitchen towel that looks too grubby for my kitchen, but still has plenty of life left in it.  I use my serger for these types of projects, however a regular sewing machine will do the trick as well.

First off, this particular kitchen towel had a thick edging along the two short sides, so I made sure to have the serger cut that off.

home Making New Out of Old: Serged Dish Rags

Next, I serged around the whole outer edge, rounding out the corners.

home Making New Out of Old: Serged Dish Rags

Then, I serged down the center of the towel.

home Making New Out of Old: Serged Dish Rags

home Making New Out of Old: Serged Dish Rags

I serged once more down the remaining two halves, to create four dish cloths/cleaning rags.

home Making New Out of Old: Serged Dish Rags

This took me approximately 2-3 minutes and I was able to keep an unwanted towel out of the landfill and save from having to buy new dish rags.

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Kelly

Christian. Wife. Mother to four whom are five and under. Daughter. Homeschooling mom. Cleaner of dirty clothes. Companion to my beloved. Chief cook. Manager of my home. Coffee lover. Lover of books. Lover of learning. All around kook.
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