The Stake Your Claim beach towel is one of the most simple/useful crafts I have done all summer. I have already used it a handful of times, even in my backyard. All you need are a few supplies. I found my tent stakes ($1.50) and my beach towel ($6) at Academy.
Do you have a button hole foot on your machine? I don’t know what I would do without mine. You have to use a button in the button hole foot because that tells your machine how long to make the button hole. I chose a button slightly larger than my stakes. Just put your button in the slot and pull down.
Mark a dot on all of the four corners of your beach towel. Line the dot up with the center of the button hole foot, choose the button hole stitch and just start sewing; it does all of the work for you!
Now you have your stitched button hole. Take a seam ripper and carefully open the hole.
You now have your button holes so you can Stake Your Claim. In your backyard or at the Beach.
There you have the super simple/genius Stake Your Claim Beach Towel :) I think it would work perfect as a fun summer Birthday Gift too.
This is BRILLIANT! I will be making a couple as soon as I get back home. Thanks for the wonderful idea :)
Wow, great idea! Wish I’d seen this before I went to the beach this summer!
so cool!!! i would love to get this as a gift!
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fabulous idea!
GREAT idea! I’ve chased a fair share of towels down the beach and will have to give this a try!
This is really genius! My niece left for Beach Camp this morning – why I why didn’t I see this in time?! Oh well, just means I need to make one and plan more beach trips to follow!
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This is a great idea! I hate every time I have to fix my towel at the beach and spray sand everywhere – I’m definitely trying this!
p.s. I featured your blog on my blog this past Monday…you should come check it out and snag a button if you’d like!
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thanks for linking to Take-A-Look Tuesday – I featured you today!! – – Mandy, http://www.SugarBeeCrafts.com
This is a great idea! How clever!
Brilliant!! I linked to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-stake-your-claim-beach-towel/2011/07/17/
–Anne
So awesome- this is always a problem I have with me beach towel!
Love this!! And thanks so much for participating in my beach bash!! :) Loved having ya!!
Great idea! I think you and I have the same sewing machine!!
That is awesome!!! What a FABULOUS idea!!!
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