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Fun Camper Dishtowels Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on April 28, 2020

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

01:00

Description

There are 10 different Camper Blackwork designs available to create these bound dishtowels. They can be painted with Inktense® pencils or left just embroidered. Either way they are a fun addition to your camper or a great gift for new RV owners.

Project Preview Video

Materials

5” x 7” Embroidery Hoop or larger

Purchased 100% cotton dish towels. (Specific towels used in this project are DII Cotton Solid Flat Weave Dish Towels, 18 x 28" Set of 6, Absorbent Monogrammable Kitchen Towels for Cooking and Baking-White from Amazon)

1/8th Yard Gingham checked quilting cotton for each towel

Fibrous water-soluble stabilizer to fit your hoop for each towel

Black polyester embroidery thread for the top and bobbin of your machine

Spray Adhesive

Embroidery Tape

Optional: 18mm Bias Tape Maker

Optional: Inktense Ink Pencils®, Deco Fabric Medium, Clear Aloe Gel, small paint brushes and bowels

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw04

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw10

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw09

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw08

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw07

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw06

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw05

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw03

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/cambw02

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

The towels are bound with single fold binding if you wish to use double fold binding purchase extra fabric to do so. Prewash the towels and apply the binding before placing the embroidery. The time given is for embroidering and binding the towel. How long it will take to paint the towels will depend on how much of the designs you choose to paint. The painting requires 24 hours of drying time before you heat set the paint. See our article on “Tips for Painting Embroidery with Inktense Ink Pencils®” https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/emb_learning/project/1909/tips-for-painting-embroidery-with-inktense-ink-pencils for painting instructions.

Step 1:

Prewash the dishtowels and cut off the hems from all four sides.

Step 2:

Cut two strips of binding fabric 1.5” wide and sew together.

Step 3:

Following the manufacturer’s instructions feed the fabric strip through the bias tape maker and press. It is recommended that you press the fabric with spray starch and press before running it through the bias tape maker.

Step 4:

Stitch the binding all the way around the towel using your preferred method.

Step 5:

Your dishtowel will now look like this. Iron it and decide where you would like to place your embroidery.

Step 6:

As each design varies some in height use a template print out of the chosen design to mark where you want the design to be sewn.

Step 7:

Hoop one layer of fibrous water-soluble stabilizer in the hoop and mark the center of the hoop of the stabilizer.

Step 8:

Lightly spray adhesive on the back of the towel or on the stabilizer. Align the center of design mark made on the towel with the mark on the stabilizer.

Step 9:

With black thread (use polyester thread if you are going to paint the design) in the top and bobbin of your machine embroider the one-color design.

Step 10:

As the embroidery is going to be seen from both sides of the dishtowel, turn the design over and trim away the tails from the tie-in’s and tie-offs being careful not to cut off the knots themselves. Trim the water-soluble stabilizer close around the design.

Step 11:

Throw the towels in the washer and dryer to remove the stabilizer and press the towel. If you are going to paint the towel you want to do this before painting as the painted towel cannot be washed until 7 days after it has been painted.

Step 12:

You will need to wrap and secure the dishtowel to a smooth flat surface to hold it taut if you wish to paint it. I used a 5” x 7” piece of white coated cardboard.

Step 13:

Paint as little or as much of the design as desired. Congratulations your Fun Camper Dishtowels are complete!

For the love of embroidery…
Pat Williams

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Meet the Author: Pat Williams

Award winning Digitizer, Embroidery Educator, Author and a Consultant to the Industry, Pat Williams has 30 years of experience in the embroidery industry. Pat has won multiple awards for her digitizing expertise including the 2007 Impressions Awards Grand Championship, Best of Show as well as the 1st and 2nd Place Awards. Pat’s love of digitizing has afforded her the opportunity to write numerous articles for Impressions magazine in the United States and Images Magazine in Europe. In 2001 Pat was named “Embroidery Educator of the Year.” For many years Pat taught digitizing seminars at the ISS Shows in Long Beach, CA and for Compucon software. She now resides in Tucson, AZ.

Fun Camper Dishtowels Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Preview Video

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