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Create a handmade Valentine's gift like this simpIe Valentine's Day Appliqué Tea Towel inspired by the LOVE sculpture in Philadelphia.
Lighthouse Tea Towels My sister, Cindy, has a vacation home in Maine, right on the Eggemoggin Reach. They spend summers and Christmases there, and also loan it out at other times of the year. When …
I don’t know about you but Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I love doing handmade gifts for my family and friends. The one issue with that is the lack of time. Having a full time job, being a single mom and juggling life tends to require most of my time. I try ... Read More about 20 Easy Sewing Gifts to make this Holiday Season
Let's make some Applique Tea Towels today. These specific dish towels will be "half-handmade" as we'll buy some simple towels and put applique on them.
Welcome to Inspired to Stitch, a column in which I interview textile and embroidery artists to discover their methods and motivations. This time, I welcome
Sew a trendy slouchy bag for summer from a couple of tea towels! Free sewing pattern and tutorial to create an easy DIY sling bag in about 30 minutes.
This raw edge applique video tutorial shows how to use a sewing machine and fusible web to make a heart-shaped applique.
Learn how to make a Christmas Tea Towel using machine sewn hexagon quilt blocks. A free tutorial, easy handmade Christmas gift. Christmas sewing ideas.
Don’t you want to snuggle up with this fat, cozy kitty? He is all bundled up and ready for the holidays in his handsome scarf and spectacles. He’d be super-cute embroidered on a Christmas stocking or pillow. You could also use it for a coloring sheet. Get my coloring tips in this video, and […]
Discover the beauty and versatility of raw edge appliqué with this comprehensive guide. Learn about the tools and materials you'll need and essential techniques for creating intricate designs.
A detailed step by step guide with illustrations and infographics for turned edge applique using paper backed fussible web.
Das süßeste Sweatshirt mit seitlicher Schleife, das zu jedem Outfit passt! Passt zu Jeans, Shorts, Rock, was auch immer Sie in Ihrem Schrank haben :) SWEATSHIRT-DETAILS: - 50% Baumwolle und 50% Polyester - Gildan oder Jerzees je nach Verfügbarkeit - Unisex Größe - Das untere Band des Rundhalsausschnitts ist abgeschnitten - bitte nehmen Sie eine oder zwei Nummern größer, wenn Sie eine normale / übergroße Passform wünschen. Ansonsten passt dir deine normale Größe cropped an. - Zwei karierte Farbvarianten - rot oder schwarz-weiß PFLEGEANLEITUNG: - Maschinenwäsche kalt - Nicht auf Design bügeln, bestickte Stoffe sollten immer linksseitig gebügelt werden - Nicht trocknergeeignet HINWEIS: - Sweatshirts können leicht voneinander oder vom Bild abweichen, da jeder individuell handgefertigt ist - Jedes Sweatshirt wird mit Sorgfalt hergestellt - Alle Verkäufe sind endgültig, wenn es irgendwelche Probleme gibt, haben Sie keine Angst, mich zu kontaktieren - Keine Rückerstattungen INTERNATIONALE BESTELLUNGEN: - Bestellungen werden ungefähr 3-5 Wochen benötigen, um zu liefern, abhängig von der Zeit, die benötigt wird, um durch den Zoll zu gelangen, es kommt oft zu Verzögerungen (bitte vor dem Kauf beachten und entsprechend planen) Erfahre mehr über diesen Artikel
Embroidery Essentials Skills Class Series will be taught as a series of monthly classes where we learn and improve our embroidery skills. Our teachers will be Darlene Crellin and Jinni Beens Class 1: Towel Class - Experience adding custom lettering to an embroidery design while learning tips and tricks for stitching on a tea towel. This class features our most popular stabilizer and water-soluble topping for towels. Class 2: Machine Applique Using a Template Class Intro - Learn how to successfully create applique using OESD Fuse and Fix and mirrored templates while creating a fun pillow. Class includes centering a design using the placement tools built into the embroidery machine and thinking outside the box with an embroidery design. Class 3: Machine Applique - Cut in Place Technique - Let’s create a retro greeting card with applique on Luxe Sparkle Vinyl. Class focus on learning the basics of cut-in-place applique, embroidery on vinyl, and working with a ‘non-card’ embroidery design. Class 4: Cutwork - This class focuses on cutwork embroidery design basics and best practices when working with large-sized blanks. Use a napkin corner to embellish an elegant apron. Class 5: Freestanding Lace - Freestanding lace is a skill that looks challenging but is very easy once you learn the basics. This class teaches the difference between freestanding lace and freestanding applique and tips and tricks for successful lace making. Students will create a beautiful Ombre bookmark using thread and wash away stabilizer. Class 6: Freestanding Applique Structure - Achieve a perfectly assembled little house while learning a unique type of machine embroidery. In class, we’ll delve into the stitching process of freestanding applique and share the recipe for freestanding applique success. Class 7: Tiling Scene - Learn the basics of creating an embroidery ‘tile’ using the appropriate stabilizer and hooping method. Stitching and assembling a tiling scene are explained and demonstrated in class. Create a darling trivet by arranging and stitching tiles together. Class 8: Patches - The class focuses on creating a fun and functional patch. Students will learn what makes a design a good candidate for a patch and the products needed to make a patch successfully in class. After this class, students will have all the skills needed to go forth and make patches, including how to attach a patch with NO sewing! Everyone loves a little flair! Class 9: Piecing in the Hoop - Perfect quilt blocks are achievable. Students will create a modern pieced table topper in class while learning the basics and best practices of piecing in the hoop. Class 10: Quilting in the Hoop - Embroidery machine for all over quilting is a skill everyone should have in their proficiencies. Printed templates make edge-to-edge quilting sew easy to get the look of an all-over quilting design. Class 11: In the Hoop - Everyone will leave with a finished gift right out of the hoop and fall in love with in the hoop projects. In class, students will create a fun, functional, and fellow friendly cord keeper while learning the basics of in the hoop projects. Class 12: Stitch and Turn - Explore the vast library of embroidery stitch and turn projects. Students will create a cute stuffed chocolate-colored bunny in class while learning the simple process of creating a stitch and turn project. Please Note: Refunds and cancellations: Due to class structure and teacher payments, refunds are only possible if the spot is filled. You can find a replacement or gift your spot if you can't attend. Policy may vary. Purchasing implies agreement. Thanks!
This fun Teapot quilt block will add a touch of domestic bliss to yourQuilting project. Download the pattern and view photos, illustrations, and easy step-by-step instructions in this article.
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Looking for a last minute quilting gift idea? Learn how easy it is to make your own applique tea towel.
What's a tea towel? Can you use it in your messy real life kitchen? I think you should be able to. So last year I made my own version using some of my favorite fat quarters (only because they come pre
A cute little spring dish towel using your scraps of cute fabric. 1-cut any shape out of scraps of fabric (we chose birds) 2- Use Iron-on pellon to applique the birds to the dishtowel 3-Hand stitch (we used embroidery thread) around applique. you could definately machine stitch too. 4-Embellish!! What a cute little spring addition to your kitchen, or quick gift for a friend or neighbor. And way way cheaper than $18 dishtowels from Anthropologie see HERE!
Use EPP to make a Thanksgiving turkey towel hostess gift.
Looking for a last minute quilting gift idea? Learn how easy it is to make your own applique tea towel.
For my daughter Autumn's 5th Birthday party, she asked for a Tea Party theme. I'm pretty sure the reason she asked is because only a few...
Embroidered Tea Towel, Guest Towel or hand towel. Kitty Cats Embroidered on Natural Linen. Cat lovers. Hostess Gift. Holiday Gift. Embroidered in black. This a a darling row of kitties across the bottom of the towel. The pur-fect gift for your cat loving friends. 100% natural linen. Linen is a natural fiber that dries quickly and gets softer with washings. Perfect for use in kitchen or as a guest towel in powder room. Measures: 16" wide by 24" long. Pre-washed Care: Machine wash warm. Avoid fabric softeners. Machine dry on low or air dry. Linen dries very quickly. Light iron if desired. These will get softer and softer with time. Custom Orders Welcome! Contact me with custom requests. For more choices in fine linen towels visit my home page: https://www.etsy.com/shop/WhimseaCottage?ref=hdr_shop_menu
In 2024 the theme of my blog will be “finding joy in the ordinary”. As a homemaker, it is quite easy to allow the everyday matters of life to become so routine that they lose a bit of sparkle. Delight in having a floor to mop, a meal to prepare or a bed to make, dulls with each passing year. In its place the tasks become hum-drum, boring, endless, unimaginative, and may even provoke an attitude of bitterness or agitation. For many years I’ve been writing here about the love I have for my privileged role as a homemaker, and how that came about through the example of my Nana, who lived a very simple ordinary life with many hardships along the way - yet she always found a reason to smile by looking for the joys around her, and that attitude created an atmosphere of love and gratitude which permeated every nook and cranny of our very tiny home. She made it known that Pop and I were her favourite joys, and therefore everything she did was done out of love for us. She had a deep respect for Pop, and taught me at a very young age to honour his position in our home. He in return adored her, and by extension heaped so much love on me that even today I shed tears thinking of how much I loved that dear little old man. Nana’s example taught me to honour my own husband one day - to ‘do him good and not harm all the days of her life’ (Proverbs 31:12), a lesson which resonated with me later in life. The more I glance back into my memories of her life, the more nuggets of wisdom rise to the surface, and now I clearly see the many lessons she had taught, not in words, in fact rarely in words, but just by being herself and living an ordinary life in a very simple home with the people she loved. So, Nana is the sparkle behind this year’s blog theme, and as we traverse the months ahead, I am praying our homemaker hearts expand with more joy, grace and hope in her honour. To kick off 2024 I have a brand new, free, block of the month, “Joy in the Ordinary”, which over the course of a year will become a small wall quilt to hang in your home. Each monthly block has a little stitchery encased in a log cabin style border. Today you can download Block 1 and each of the remaining blocks will be shared on the 1st of the month throughout 2024. Use the link below to download the free pattern. DOWNLOAD Block 1 of Joy in the Ordinary BOM Now, what about my annual January Tea Towel post and pattern?! Did you think I’d forgotten? Not at all. As you know, the past few months my fingers had moved from stitching to crochet edging on a number of table runners, small doilies, and a pile of new tea towels to carry me through 2024. Oh, how I LOVE replacing all my tea towels in January! The old ones then become cleaning rags – those in good condition are for use around our home, and those that are stained are given to hubby to use in his shed. This year’s free tea towel stitchery ties in with the blog theme for 2024… Perhaps you will crochet an edge on your towel as well? Or you might like to sew some decorative crochet cotton lace along the edge instead? I am always asked if I fuse any backing to the tea towel before I embroider, so I shall answer up front – no. I just weave the thread ends into the stitches already made and they have never come away in the wash (yet). Use the link below to download my free 2024 tea towel pattern. DOWNLOAD the Joy in the Ordinary Tea Towel pattern Family Update: Thank you for all the emails which arrived asking if we were okay, as I had not posted on the blog in a while. As you know, Blossom and the children had Influenza A…but then they got Covid over Christmas so we were all isolated and had to resort to a Facetime call to watch them open presents. It was sad not to be together and have our plans come to nought, but how grateful we are for the technology on hand to still ‘see’ each other and be entertained by the children! Just when they came out of isolation, darling Bloss was diagnosed with pneumonia, and if you’re a long-time reader here you may remember that she gets it almost every year. 2023 was particularly difficult health-wise for my girl, and having Influenza, then covid, then pneumonia back-to-back without a break has created havoc with her immune system. Please pray for her, that the Lord would heal her and bless her with a healthy and strong 2024. (thank you xxx) At our home, I was health compromised too, but it was over quickly and I recovered well. On Christmas Day hubby battled with our four pumps to keep water out of the house as we were hit with a tremendous storm (we got 7 inches of rain that day), which continued off and on for days. Two of the four pumps broke on Christmas Day, as well as the dishwasher, and the cold water tap in the kitchen, and the internet. Honestly, all we can do is laugh now…even though we’re still waiting for things to be fixed. But praise God we’re all fine here and nothing major happened that cannot be fixed. In the big scheme of life, these were minor annoyances and nothing more. I have to say that after only having a dishwasher for five years, it was a delight to revert back to hand washing again. Standing at the kitchen sink looking out the window was always very meditative for me, and with soapy rubber gloves and dishwashing cloth in hand, I had many of my aha moments with God. I always believed He chose then to speak into my thoughts because I wasn’t distracted by other things, but present in the very lovely task of washing dishes. Just as Nana did. Now I am wondering if I really want that dishwasher repaired after all. The future... A new year is upon us, dear friends, and I am hopeful that the Lord will allow me to blog regularly, to inspire and encourage your homemaker heart, and to live an ordinary life with JOY for my grandchildren to see and remember when I am gone. If this becomes my last year blogging (we never know what is ahead) then I’d love for it be a good year. And I shall be praying for you too. God bless you all, and may 2024 be a new season of life which we each approach with HOPE, leaving the past struggles and disruptions behind because we cannot change them. Shake off those feelings which darken your thoughts, and seek out all that is good, and lovely, and pure and hope-filled. Seek the Lord daily, and if you still find it hard to be cheerful, ask Him to gently sweep away emotions that are unproductive (or even harmful). You may still have to work through grief, illness, separations, financial strains (as we are) and other life challenges, but don't allow the weight of these trials to block out the light, darling girl. It is there. His Light is always there to shine a path forward, even if its only one step at a time. May the Lord bless our year ahead as we seek out simple joys in the everyday, very ordinary, matters of life. Hugs Don't miss out on any Elefantz news or free patterns. Subscribe to my blog posts HERE and receive them direct to your email inbox. Or sign up HERE for my free newsletter which often has extra benefits, freebies & tutorials!
This is a fabulous and easy gift idea for neighbors, teachers, friends, and family. Use a tea towel to make a quick and simple DIY tea towel apron!
Download these Free embroidery designs for kitchen towels and get your holiday crafting started right. We have several cute designs available for free download.
Fast, inexpensive, and simple to create, this Redwork Chicken Tea Towel makes a fun addition to your kitchen or a lovely, thoughtful gift.
