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Embroidered Linen Tea Towels Just Like Grandma Made

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Hi - It's Lynne here from Her Craftiness with Homemade Saturday's where the Design Team shares with you projects they are working on that does not include paper. With this being said, I'm sharing with you today a project reminiscent of grandma embroidering on flour sacks to be used to tea towels but with a much more modern twist to make a project in approximately 15 minutes with my embroidery machine!!!

For our project today, we are using a tear-away stabilizer, Linen Tea Towels which I purchased at Walmart (5 for $4.98) and Urban Threads Mr. Whiskers' Tea Party 



I use 2 layers of a tear-away stabilizer 

to find the center to place my design, I press the tea towel in half to mark the center


and then place in the hoop with the stabilizer and stretch tauntly



I use embroidery thread as it has a sheen which gives a beautiful finish

 I get my colors ready and in stitch order that once the machine starts, I don't have to search for threads


There are 5,679 stitches to this design and I keep this on my computer screen also as not to confuse the colors

 the magic begins as I press the start key (the red button turn yellow) and sit back and watch - I'm only needed to change thread colors


 Once the stitching is complete, you need to tear the excess stabilizer away along with trimming threads


a final pressing and viola a finished embroidered tea towel just like Grandma used to make:


I hope your enjoyed today's project too. If you have a questions or suggestions, please leave it in the comments. Also, you can join up to our Facebook group: Scrapbook Blessings Club for more fun, games, inspiration, tips and techniques. Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day! SBC Design Team Member

Lynne
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