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Cookie Baking Towels Embroidery Project

By Ramona Baird on September 28, 2015

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Beginner

TIME REQUIRED

04:30

Description

There are never enough towels at baking time. Create some new towels, trimmed with ribbons, for baking season this year.

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Materials

Two cotton tea or flour sack towels

7/8” red grosgrain ribbon (width of towel plus 1” for each)

1/8” green satin ribbon (width of towel plus 1” for each)

2 pieces of tearaway stabilizer to fit hoop

Embroidery thread as stated in color sequence

Thread to match green ribbon

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Hopscotch/1/HS1209031B

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Hopscotch/1/HS1209031D

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

Cookie Baking Towels, along with a plate of cookies, makes a wonderful hostess gift or addition to your own kitchen. If this is given as a gift, why not include the cookie recipe, too!

Step 1:

Gather the materials and read through the instructions before beginning. Print out paper templates of the two embroidery designs.

Step 2:

Open up the towel and press well, and then press in half lengthwise, creating a light crease.

Step 3:

Decide on the placement of the ribbon trims. From the top of the ribbon trim, determine the length to the center of the design. Measure from the center of the design to the bottom of the towel and note the measurement. Cut around and pin the paper template in place at this pre-determined measurement.

Step 4:

Hoop the towel with one layer of tearaway stabilizer, centering the design in the hoop. Load the design “Rollin’ in the DOUGH” on the machine. Align the needle to the center of the template.

Step 5:

Remove the template and stitch the design following the color sequence.

Step 6:

Remove the towel from the hoop and remove the excess stabilizer. Use a ruler to measure and draw a line for the ribbon as was previously measured in Step 3. Cut a length of ribbon the width of the towel plus 1”. Pin the grosgrain ribbon in place leaving ½” at each end of the towel.

Step 7:

At each end, fold under ¼” and then fold again the same amount and pin the end of the ribbon on the back side of the towel. Repeat for the other side. At the sewing machine, place the green ribbon along the lower edge of the red ribbon and stitch it in place through all layers, folding the ends under the red ribbon ends on the back side of the towel. Repeat sewing green ribbon along the upper edge of the red ribbon.

Step 8:

Repeat the steps of measuring, hooping and embroidering the design, removing the stabilizer, and sewing on the ribbons for the second towel. Bake the cookies and keep the towels for your kitchen or give them (and cookies with recipe) as a hostess gift.

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Meet the Author: Ramona Baird

Ramona Baird has been in the embroidery industry for over 23 years. She and her husband owned a commercial and retail embroidery store in Arizona for many years. She is an experienced digitizer having been mentored by award-winners Pat Williams and Lindee Goodall. Ramona is a contributor to “Creative Machine Embroidery” magazine having 5 covers to her credit. Ramona has worked for Wilcom America and served many years as Education Director for the American Sewing Guild. With a degree in fashion design, she is able to design and execute patterns which Pat Williams says are “out of the box” in creativity and application. Ramona likes to challenge the boundaries of embroidery and bring new and exciting designs, ideas, and projects to EmbroideryDesigns.com. She wants embroiderers of all levels to increase their skills and enjoyment in using their embroidery machine for gift-making and personal pleasure.

Cookie Baking Towels Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

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Make Cookies

Rollin In Dough