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DIY Dish Washing and Drying Mitt

By A Cultivated Nest Team

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!

DIY dish washing and drying mitt

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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

DIY dish washing and drying mitt

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.

DIY dish washing and drying mitt6. Cut out two mitten shaped towels.
7. Remove your pins from your pattern and mitten shaped towels.

DIY dish washing and drying mitt8. Now place your two mitten shaped towels together, pattern side facing each other and pin together like in the photo, leaving the cuff open.

DIY dish washing and drying mitt9. 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!

Make your dish washing faster and easier with this DIY dish washing and drying mitt! It's very inexpensive and easy to make!

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Comments

  1. Dannie * Star Domestic says

    April 20, 2016 at 9:54 am

    It 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

  2. Denise/DIY Crush says

    April 25, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    GREAT 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!

  3. Morgan says

    April 27, 2016 at 4:02 pm

    This is so cute! We don’t have a drying rack so I dry dishes by hand so this would be perfect!

  4. Jamie says

    May 3, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    I 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

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