Time required: 1 hour
This fun-to-make tea towel project is a great way to celebrate National Embroidery Month! Using just a few supplies and your Brother Sewing & Embroidery Machine, you’ll have these pretty towels stitched up in no time!
Materials and supplies
- Brother Sewing and Embroidery Machine
- Store-bought tea towels
- 1/8 yard of assorted decorative fabrics
- Tear-away stabilizer
- Embroidery file (download included)
Tip:
- Pre-wash and iron tea towels and fabric. It’s also helpful to use spray starch on your tea towels and fabric after washing.
- ¼” seam used throughout
Instructions
- Measure width of washed tea towel to determine width of trim fabric (some shrinkage may have occurred during washing).
- Cut strip of decorative fabric 9 1/2″ x width of tea towel plus 1”.
- Cut strip of decorative trim fabric 2 ½” x width of tea towel + 1”.
- Fold trim fabric in half lengthwise, wrong sides together.
- Fold decorative fabric in half, lengthwise, right sides together.
- Slip folded trim fabric between the long sides of the decorative fabric with raw edges even and pin.
- Stitch long edges of fabric together.
- Turn fabric tube right side out.
- Place long edge of fabric tube even with the wrong side of the bottom edge of the tea towel. Pin in place.
- Stitch the long edge. Backstitch at each end of the seam.
- Fold the fabric strip over the bottom edge and align with the edges on the left and right front side of the towel.
- Fold in each of the two side edges even with the tea towel and press, pin in place, keeping edges smooth and flat.
- Using coordinating thread, sew the fabric tube along the top edge and side edges of the front side of the tea towel.
- Determine desired placement of embroidery design.
- Hoop stabilized tea towel.
- Use your embroidery machine’s built-in fonts to create the words or use the included PE Design file.
- Embroider design.
- Carefully remove tear-away stabilizer.
And that’s it! Make these one-of-a-kind tea towels for yourself and some for gifts to bring style and function to any kitchen.