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In life you are never caught up
- Figure that out and you have a lot figured out
It was my intention to discuss kitchen towel decor today. I will, but I wanted to share the above quote from a sewing blogger. Barbra is a clothing guru. She is supremely talented, genuine, funny. She has an occasional post that she labels "Fly Paper Thoughts." You should read it. It is a capsule view of her life and her family and a bit of sewing thrown in.
As I worked in the TRQ booth at the Sewing Expo this last weekend I had a great view of a Quilt Shop booth across the way. The Quilt Shop is in Florida. Long way to travel if you ask me. But anyway, they had a nice display of decorated kitchen towels. I know, what is the big deal. Well, I started thinking about how quilters and sewists in general need a little 'crafty-type' of project between the big ones and this would certainly fill the bill. There were patterns, kits, yardage and ideas galore. After looking over there for most of the day I took a little break and spent some time talking with the ladies. People who sew are nice people. I picked up two kits that included the premium towel, a decorative panel and giant rayon rick-rack.
The kits:
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| Kit number one was this brown homespun style towel, a panel that has a transitional season look with sunflowers, baskets of mixed blooms, mums etc. And that glorious giant red rick-rack. Sewing could not be easier. I attached the panel and the trim in one stitching. Talk about a quick project. It took longer for my iron to heat up than it did to sew the whole thing! |
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| On this one I chose to tuck half of the rick-rack under the panel mostly because it looked better and because the rick-rack would have obscured most of the panel. |
I also considered those people who do not have embroidery machines. This is an opportunity to imitate the decor without the embroidery unit. I purchased additional rick-rack to use up some of my own towel collection. Also, think about all those built in decorative stitches on our machines. A decorative panel bordered with decorative stitches would produce the same effect.
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| The other kit I purchased was a simple off-white linen towel with the panel in stylized leaf prints. The rick-rack is a happy Granny Smith Apple colored green. On this one I stitched the trim on the outside of the panel. |
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| Again, a single stitching, I just happened to have a rayon thread that matched the color. |
*my profound thinking today: Just when life is settling down a bit the road takes a sharp turn and sight around the bend is limited. Two times in one week. Dear friends, serious illness, so much to think about. Such is life.
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