If you want to get your dishes done fast, you have to use the right tools! Why work with an old fashioned sponge and kitchen towel when you can make one of these handy mitts! This mitt can be created out of any kitchen towel, making it very inexpensive and highly customizable. It can also be used to either wash or dry your dishes, making it very useful! Make this DIY Dish Washing and Drying Mitt and get your dishes done fast and easy!
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I made my DIY dish washing mitt out of a green kitchen hand towel with a cute little watermelon slice on it. But you could use any towel you like! You could even make a different mitt for each holiday/season, using seasonally decorated hand towels!
This would make a great house warming gift, especially if paired with some cleaning supplies, like one of these homemade cleaners!
DIY Dish Washing and Drying Mitt
Materials
A kitchen hand towel (plain or themed)
Sewing pins
Scissors
8 1/2 X 11″ white paper (letter size printer paper)
Pencil
Sewing machine and thread
Directions
1. Trace your hand on a piece of white paper.
2. Cut the paper around your traced hand like a mitten, making sure you leave at least an inch all the way around your hand, especially at the cuff.
3. Fold your towel in half width-wise.
4. Use your cut out mitten as a template/pattern and place the cuff at the bottom of the towel.
5. Pin your pattern in place.
6. Cut out two mitten shaped towels.
7. Remove your pins from your pattern and mitten shaped towels.
8. Now place your two mitten shaped towels together, pattern side facing each other and pin together like in the photo, leaving the cuff open.
9. Using a sewing machine, sew your towels along the pinned edges. Don’t accidentally sew the cuff closed!
10. Turn your mitten right side out.
To use, just put your hand in your DIY dish washing and drying mitt to wash or dry your dishes!
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Dannie * Star Domestic says
April 20, 2016 at 9:54 amIt looks absolutely adorable, especially with the watermelon slice. On the mitt/gloves topic, not a while ago I bought gloves with aloe vera extract on the inside and I am ADDICTED. I know it’s weird but who knew such things even existed
Denise/DIY Crush says
April 25, 2016 at 4:34 pmGREAT idea!! Love it! So simple too! Would love to see you at my craft party which is new Thursdays at 7pm EST. We pin every instructional post and share on other social media. Have a great rest of the week!
Morgan says
April 27, 2016 at 4:02 pmThis is so cute! We don’t have a drying rack so I dry dishes by hand so this would be perfect!
Jamie says
May 3, 2016 at 1:11 pmI love that!! Those would be perfect for me to take with us when we travel in our RV, and you can find the washcloths at the Dollar Tree, so inexpensive! Thank you for sharing with us at the #HomeMattersParty