${{mainImageAlt || (productInfo._source && productInfo._source.name) || ''}}$

St Patrick's Day Kitchen Towels Embroidery Project

By Linda Mills on February 27, 2020

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

01:45

Description

Everyone’s Irish on St Patrick's Day! Stitch up a few of these flour sack kitchen towels with these fun and whimsical embroidery designs.

Project Preview Video

Materials

(3) FLOUR SACK KITCHEN TOWELS

TEAR AWAY STABILIZER

TEMPORARY ADHESIVE SPRAY

EMBROIDERY THREAD

REMNANT COTTON FABRIC PIECES

CURVED EMBROIDERY SCISSORS

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/ma-designs/stockdesign/1/ma4034

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/premium-embroidery/stockdesign/1/pme0080a_002

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/mira-embroidery/stockdesign/1/me6099

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/ct-company/supplies/1/tmpspray505

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/ct-company/supplies/2/ta15

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

A simple to follow tutorial for those with some experience who want to challenge themselves. Embroidering a straightforward whimsical embroidery design with a few thread color changes on one towel and a simple to follow applique design on another.

Step 1:

Gather all supplies and review before beginning.

*Time stated is for completion of all three towels. One towel takes approximately 45 minutes. Also factor your time of completion based on experience, machine and your SPM ( stitches per minute)

Step 2:

Print out paper template of designs for review

Step 3:

Load Irish Kiss embroidery design into your machine. Enlarge design per your machines instructions to 4.2” x 4.9”. Follow design thread color chart or use thread colors of choice. ( I chose black for the wording and green for the leaf)

Step 4:

Cut and hoop stabilizer. Mark center with crosshair.

Step 5:

You will be centering embroidery design Irish Kiss 5” up from bottom to towel.

Step 6:

Spray temporary adhesive spray onto hooped stabilizer. Fold towel ( lengthwise) in half. Fold up towel 5” from bottom. Place folded towel corner to top right hand corner of crosshair. Unfold. Fingertip press towel to secure.

Step 7:

Attach hoop to machine. Confirm center needle placement. Begin embroidering process. When complete… remove hoop. Cut and trim all jump stitches and loose thread ends. Iron press to set stitches. And your 1st towel is done! Congrats! Repeat steps 3 - 7 for the “Happy St. Patrick's Day” embroidery design.

Step 8:

APPLIQUE ST PATRICK'S DAY EMBROIDERY DESIGN

Repeat steps 3 - 6 to prepare towel . Attach hoop to machine. Confirm center needle placement per your machine's instructions.

Step 9:

Begin the embroidering process. First stitching will be the dieline

Step 10:

Place a cut fabric remnant atop dieline stitched design covering the open spaces. ( If needed spray temporary adhesive spray to back of cut piece to secure) Do not overlap fabric pieces.

Step 11:

Begin stitching the tack down stitch. When complete. Remove hoop. Keep the towel hooped and in place. Using your curved embroidery scissors trim away the excess fabric around the designs close to the stitching being careful not to cut too close into the stitch.