Embroidery

 

An art nouveau embroidered table mat, silk and cotton on linen.

For the Birds

Our bird embroidery makes an appearance on a poster for birds.  Remember this pattern from Geninne?

The Embroidery Continues

I'm on a huge embroidery kick and can't stop! Here are two more hand towels I started a while ago and have just now finished. This time I went major matchy-matchy compared to Geninne's bird.

I've also got a burro thing going on, too. Here are a couple of close ups:

Saturday Embroidery Project

A few days ago Geninne blogged a free embroidery pattern: a line drawing of one of her darling birds. I couldn't resist transferring him to a vintage style cotton tea towel and getting to work.

I tried to choose colors to go with the side stripes without being too matchy-matchy.

You can find Geninne's pattern here on her blog. You can find the tea towel here.

Vintage Style Cotton Stripe Tea Towels

I loved these iron-on transfers featuring burros.

A good hand towel is a kitchen staple around here so we were thrilled to find two vintage styles to add to our shop. Woven of pure cotton, they're reminiscent of the 1920/30s flour sack towels and are lovely to use as-is or can be printed on or embroidered.

I chose one of each color to keep for myself and plan on doing a bit of south-of-the-border inspired embroidery. Towels are ironed and images are transferred! Now for a little color selection and handwork.

You can find these tea towels in our etsy shop by clicking here.

Fresh out of the dryer and ready to be ironed.

Waiting for their images to be transferred.