Handmade kitchen towels

I am making gifts for Christmas and will be sharing some of the things I did. I made personalized kitchen towels with three elements, a trim, a decoration, and the name.  Many things can be made with this formula: pillowcases, towels, pockets, totes, try it!

Finished kitchen towels

Step one:  I used a cording foot that has holes for the embroidery floss to go thru while zigzagging it down.  I used invisible thread and a multiple zigzag stitch. There are 4 threads of floss in each hole.

Note!  This is just one way to trim the edge.  Rickrack or ribbon or trim would work, too

Here I am finishing the row with the embroidery floss.

Second Step:  Adding the decoration.  I choose squares of unfinished fabric.  I first backed the squares with iron on pellon, pinned, and sewed around each square.

Third step:  Personalization.  Printout your caption on paper, place it under the towel, and trace.  Then either, embroidery by hand or free hand stitching by machine.  I can show you how to do that if you are interested.  Either way does not take long and it a makes a nice gift for anyone.