I’ve been gifting kitchen towels to friends and family for years. I was sewing 2.5 x 2.5 inch squares together to make a strip attached along the lower part of the towel. I had pulled together fabrics to do something similar this year…but then I did some raw edge appliqué for another project. Why not do something new this year? So back I went to the bin of holiday fabrics to look for motifs to appliqué!

I picked up stack of towels at IKEA this past summer, so I already had those, and I did find a couple great fabrics in my stash.

I have a variety of double stick fusible web options in my cupboard, This time I pulled out Steam-a- Seam ® 2 made by the Warm Company. I discovered that I really like working with this product, especially because I can put my fabric down on the fusible and it stays put because the product is sticky. But you can pick your fabric up and move it around if you need to. That is so helpful, and makes cutting out the motif to fuse a breeze!

Once the final shape is cut out, the appliqué is fused to the fabric with a steam iron. The Warm Company states that it is fused permanently.

Then off to the sewing machine. I used my trusty old Bernina 440 to stitch around the edges of the fused appliqué. I chose the overcast stitch, leaving the stitch width the the same as the machine setting but decreasing the stitch length to 1.5 so that the stitches were closer together.

See what stitches your sewing machine has to see if there is something similar you can use.

This was a fun, quick project that I was able to complete in a half a day.

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