Applique Valentine's Day Kitchen Towels

Applique Valentine's Day Kitchen Towels Embroidery Project

By   Linda Mills   on   January 26, 2023
  • SKILL LEVELSome Experience
  • TIME REQUIRED01:30
Description

Enhance your kitchen with charming Valentine's Day applique designs on flour sack towels. These delightful towels feature heart and love-themed appliques, perfect for adding a festive touch to your home. Step-by-step instructions are included.

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Materials

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Materials
  • (3) FLOUR SACK KITCHEN TOWELS
  • LIGHTWEIGHT TEAR AWAY STABILIZER
  • TEMPORARY ADHESIVE SPRAY
  • EMBROIDERY THREAD
  • FABRIC AIR ERASE OR CHALK PEN

  • Designs used in this project

    Final Product: What You Will Create

    Preface:
    Looking for a fun beginner/some experience embroidery project? This is the one for you to get yourself started. Three sweet embroidery designs to stitch out onto flour sack kitchen towels. Embroidering a set of towels using the 3 designs will help you to begin to feel more comfortable when hooping of stabilizer, centering your towel, ensuring center needle placement ,thread changes etc. As you will be repeating the embroidering steps 3 times using simple skills that you already have.  Flour sack towels can be purchased at your local retailer department stores. No worries if you're unable to find the ones with the red line designs the plain white flour sack towels will be perfect!


    Step 1:
    Gather all supplies and review instructions before beginning. 

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    Step 2:
    Print out embroidery design templates

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    Step 3:
    Center your Happy Valentine Day design template 5 ½” up from bottom hem of towel.

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    Step 4:
    Mark your axis points

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    Step 5:
    Cut a piece of  tear away stabilizer and hoop.  

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    Step 6:
    Lightly spray temporary adhesive spray onto stabilizer.

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    Step 7:
    Match up your towel marked axis points to the axis points on your hoop. Fingertip press onto stabilizer and smooth out towel fabric to secure. 

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    Step 8:
    Load design into your machine per your machine’s instructions. I wanted the design a bit larger on my towel but this next step is optional. Edit design per your machine’s instructions by enlarging to a 4” x 4” design size.

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    Step 9:
    Attach hoop. Confirm needle placement per your machine’s instructions. Begin the embroidering process. When embroidering is complete. Remove hoop. Cut and trim all jump stitches and loose thread ends front and back. Remove stabilizer. 

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    Step 10:
    Congratulations! Your first Valentines Day Flour Sack Towel is complete. Repeat steps 3 through 9 for the next two designs. Please note:  The Valentines Day Flower Hearts design template is centered 2 ½” up from the bottom of towel hem. I also used only two thread colors ( red and white) as I just wanted all the hearts in red. You can follow thread color chart if you prefer. Have fun!

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    Meet the Author: Linda Mills
    Linda Mills
    Linda loves to create by sharing her different sewing and machine embroidery techniques so others can utilize their machines to the fullest
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