I've got another beach towel project for you! When I purchased that fabulous zebra beach towel (for cheap) to transform into hand towels, I also bought a few more to create with! I knew that I wanted to come up with some colorful and fun tote bags for the beach and pool this summer!
Thanks to Target these towels were $2.50 and I selected a few different bright colors and patterns.
I started by cutting wide strips of towels.
fyi- cutting up towels can me messy! Don't wear your favorite block yoga pants unless you are ok with getting tons of towel fibers all over them!
I picked blues and greens to pair together and laid them out in the size that I wanted- a front and back for the tote- roughly 11" X 20".
I sewed the strips together.
I used an extra piece of towel for the lining
and for the strips that were sewn into handles.
I sewed the handles on and then sewed the sides and bottom together
The result is a SUPER cute and TOTALLY functional beach bag!
Since I can never make just one of anything I made another bag but for this one I used squares sewn together!
26 comments:
Fantastic Alisa! I notice some great beach towels at Wal-mart too! Great project!
Can you say "A-DORE-ABLE!" You are SOOOO creative Alisa! Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas.
Another fantastic post. : )
Super clever of you my dear. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Gorgeous - not sure if we can get beach towels for that sort of price over here - but think I'll start looking now!
many thanks !!! I love this project
Love it, looking out for cheap towls now.
great idea now all we need is nice weather again
Love these!
This is great - at last a deep beach bag that can cope with rolled towels without them falling out of the top... well designed.
BTW- hope you don't mind but I'm holding a giveaway and I'd like to invite you and your readers to join in. I've just passed 100 posts and I'm offering one of my Pondlife + Plankton appliqued pencil rolls... it's over at
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those are totally awesome! what a great idea. :-)
Totally awesome! I've been thinking about using our old bath towels and quilting a beach blanket with them - this works for towels too! Thanks for the great idea!
I love the deep bag! Thanks so much Alisa, I'll be linking.
How cute is that!
Such a cute idea! Thanks for sharing :)
What a great and useful idea. I am so going to try this!
These are so pretty!
I love it! I'm definitely trying this!
What a fun idea! Craft just posted about using you beach towel tote and my beach towel dress together. how fun! Happy to find you :)
- dana
www.dana-made-it.com
I love it!!
Now I follow this blog!
Laura from Italy http://chebirba.blogspot.com
This is a great idea.Very stylish!
What a fantastic idea...alas...it is hard to find such bright coloured and prints such as yours here..mostly plain muted coloured or stripes
Very nice!
Thanks for putting this fun tutorial together.
I have featured it in a post I posted today about great gift tutorials for women and girls.
You can see it here....
http://allysonadeney.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/17-handmade-gifts-for-women-and-older-girls-with-tutorials/
...if you like.
I am looking forward to making a few of these!
Ally of harrysdesk.
FinaLLLLLy I know what to do with our big collection of beachtowels we gathered over the years. Thank you from Lake Constance, Germany... @lex
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