Kitchen Towel and Basket: free PDF sewing pattern

📍 Level: beginner • Video tutorial length: 19 min

Learn to sew a square storage basket and washable kitchen towels, a useful, ecological and economical sewing project! This pattern lets you make a coordinated set for the bathroom or the kitchen: a simple basket and its reversible towels, easy to wash and reuse.

📏 Sizes

One size: each towel is about 20 cm, the basket about 30 cm square.

🧵 What you need

• Basket, outer fabric: 1 square of 32 × 32 cm in a fabric of your choice (cotton, linen, canvas)
• Basket, lining: 1 square of 32 × 32 cm in poplin
• Basket, interfacing: 1 square of 32 × 32 cm of H250 fusible interfacing (to give it body)
• Per towel, terry: 1 square of 22 × 22 cm of terry cloth (absorbent side)
• Per towel, cotton: 1 square of 22 × 22 cm of cotton (decorative side)
• Matching thread, scissors, pins, sewing machine

📐 Cut fabric dimensions

• Basket (outer): 32 × 32 cm
• Basket (lining): 32 × 32 cm
• H250 interfacing: 32 × 32 cm
• Towel (terry): 22 × 22 cm
• Towel (cotton): 22 × 22 cm

📄 What this free pattern includes

• the full-size pattern, available in French, English, German and Spanish;
• three paper formats: A4 for French, German and Spanish, and A4 plus US Letter for English;
• 1 cm seam allowances included;
• a 5 cm test square (and 1 inch on the US Letter version) so you can check the print is at 100%.

✂️ Technical details

• 2-in-1 set: a storage basket plus washable towels
• Square basket with sewn corners to create the volume
• Terry and cotton lined towels, reversible and machine washable
• Zero-waste project: replaces disposable paper

🎬 The video tutorial