Make these cute, yet practical hand towels to add to the holiday spirit in your kitchen or to give away as neighbor, teacher or friend gifts. I made these for some neighbors and friends for Christmas this past year. But, you could put anything thing on these hand towels and for any holiday. I simply bought some flour sack hand towels from Ben Franklin Crafts (which they had on sale for $2). You can use any hand towel.
Then I got on my computer and typed up what I wanted to embroider, in a cute font, and in an appropriate size. I printed out the paper and then placed it under the hand towel where I wanted the words to appear. I traced the words with a pencil directly onto the hand towel lightly. I also found a cute fabric and then cut out a star (which was simply a cookie cutter I had traced), and sewed it above the embroidery.
I had never embroidered before (so don’t look too closely), and learned how to do a backstitch by watching this tutorial. To make the round little dots between the words I made a little french knot using this tutorial. They were seriously so easy to make! I kept one for myself and have used it so often that I really should make a new one that isn’t so seasonal!
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carol says
First time I have looked at all the things you have been doing. I love the way your Christmas towels turned out.
I am totally making these for Christmas! Thanks so much!
It would also be neat to make these as wedding gifts with the couple's initials. Or, you could do sports teams (GO FLORIDA GATORS!) during football season. Wow. I gotta go look at my fabric.