![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 1 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 1](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_1.jpg)
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1. Pin the two towels together with the right sides facing each other and sew both of the short sides.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 1a Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 1a](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_1a.jpg)
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2. Turn the towel to the right side and fuse your motif onto the towel. If you have no fusible web, just pin the motif in place. The top of the motif should be pointing towards the towel edge (the short edge).
To avoid confusion, here a red tree was getting fused onto the white towel for the white bag. The later pictures as of step 4 will show pictures of the red bag with a white tree.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 1b Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 1b](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_1b.jpg)
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3. Sew a zig-zag stitch completely around the motif to hold it in place.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 2 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 2](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_2.jpg)
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4. Now the motif is stitched on and you can continue sewing the bag.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 3 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 3](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_3.jpg)
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5. Turn the bag around again so that the right sides are inside again.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 4 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 4](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_4.jpg)
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6. Line up the seams of the short ends that you sewed together in step 1 and pin the towel in place.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 5 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 5](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_5.jpg)
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7. Sew down both long edges of the towel and leave an opening for turning it. Here is a 10 cm opening in the middle of the top left red area
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 6 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 6](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_6.jpg)
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8. Create a 4.5 cm square template and use a disappearing marker to mark a sqaure in each of the four corners and cut the square out.
You can increase or decrease the square size by a few millimeters if you like to change the height and width of the basket.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 7 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 7](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_7.jpg)
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9. This is now how the bag looks.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 8 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 8](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_8.jpg)
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10. Starting with the first corner, open the corner apart and match the middle seams and pin in place.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 9 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 9](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_9.jpg)
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11. Sew a line across the seam. Repeat this for the remaining 3 corners.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 10 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 10](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_10.jpg)
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12. Now you have a “floor” on each side.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 11 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 11](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_11.jpg)
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13. This is now how the bag looks. Now you will pull the right side of the bag through the opening you left.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 12 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 12](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_12.jpg)
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14. So the bag now looks like this.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 13 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 13](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_13.jpg)
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15. The opening on the side now needs to be hand sewn.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 14 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 14](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_14.jpg)
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16. Now insert the white area in the red area... or the red area in the white area, depending on which way you would like to have your bag.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 15 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 15](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_15.jpg)
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17. Here the red area is on the outside.
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 16 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 16](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_16.jpg)
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18. Fold down the cuff...
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![Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 17 Christmas Towel Bag Tutorial 17](../assets/images/Christmas_Towel_Bag_Tutorial_17.jpg)
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19. And sew it in place if you like to keep it down.
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