| For this project we used the designs from the Tea
Set Appliqué . |
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| You will need cotton kitchen towels, scraps of cotton fabrics for appliqué,
watersoluble stabilizer and embroidery threads. For the pleated ruffles
you'll need cotton fabric and grosgrain ribbon 3/8" wide of matching color. |
| Step One: Cut away one of the short finished edges of the towel
and press with steam. |
Step Two: Mark the position of the appliqué on the towel
and make the embroidery.
Since we used a towel with a wide central stripe, we positioned the
embroidery vertically: |
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| On the second, checkered towel, we grouped the embroidery close to
one edge: |
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| To finish the raw edge that we cut away earlier, we created pleated
ruffles. To make the ruffles, cut a strip of fabric measuring 6 1/2" wide.
The length of the strip must be twice as large as the width of the towel,
minus 1/2". Our towel is 15" wide, so our strip was 29 1/2" long. |
| Fold the strip lengthwise, right side inside, and machine stitch the
short sides together. |
| Turn right side out and press. You'll get a double strip 3 1/4" wide.
Make the pleats 1" wide and 1/2" deep, each, and press them with an iron.
Distribute the pleats evenly so that the ruffles end up as wide as the
towel. |
| To attach the ruffles to the towel, place the ruffles on the towel
and match the raw edge of the towel and the raw edge of the ruffles. Machine-stitch
1/4" from the edge. Unfold the ruffles and press the seam onto the towel. |
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| Cut a piece of the grosgrain ribbon. The length of the ribbon should
be 1/2" more than the width of the towel. Our towel is 15" wide, so the
ribbon was 15 1/2" long. Pin the ribbon over the raw edge of the ruffles
to cover it. Tuck 1/4" of the ends under the ruffles. Machine-stitch along
all edges of the ribbon. |
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| You'll get a neat finished seam on both sides. |
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| We hope that you liked our idea and will come up with many of your
own. |
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