Tea Towels

When my son started his kitchen linen business, I bought some blanks to embroider and sell as well.  

Blooming Beauty by Embroidery Library

It offers me the opportunity to embroider some of the beautiful designs I amassed over the years.

I added a little butterfly and dragonfly button to two of these towels.

Jacobean pumpkins from Embroidery Library

When I embroidered this tea cloth, the design looked rather small, so I enlarged it a bit and embroidered it on either side.  Another design by Embroidery Library which can be purchased here.

I just love this cheeky hen with attitude from Embroidery Library.

Betty chicken is available here.

I thought about finishing all the kitchen towels and then post all the photos, but I just don't seem to get all done.  It's been over a month since I started writing this post and I manage to finish only 3 additional towels.  Eish.  So much to do, so little time.

Dish towels

I saw these beautiful designs a few months back and when Embroidery Library emailed me my discount coupon for my birthday, I bought them.  So, today I used them to decorate two dish towels.  

I also added a bit of lace and a little bow to each transforming an ordinary dish towel into a beautiful piece.  

Kitchen Tea

Yesterday was the kitchen tea of a very special friend and ex-colleague of about the past 20 years or so who is getting married for the very first time after a few failed relationships.

I used the Italian Chefs set of Hatched in Africa to embroider four kitchen towels.

I also stitched an origami candle mat at our latest group meeting which I added to her package.

At the kitchen tea, Desire received a dishtowel which I took home and embroidered to match the rest.

Presents

I embroidered presents last week.  First up is a set of towels for a colleague of mine's mother in law who was so kind as to lend her walking frame for my husband after he broke his hip.

I then did a set of kitchen towels with these designs from Loralie designs

and a washcloth.