Good Morning! This Monday has me feeling well rested after the weekend and thinking ahead to the coming weekend. It's almost here y'all! Valentines is Sunday! Are you ready? Do you have all your treats for your sweets in order? Are you even celebrating?
Today I am thinking of all I need to get in order to make the day special. Admittedly I'm not quite ready. I am inspired but not quite sure how I'm going to pull it all together yet make it special. I was thinking about the years past and all the different ways I've decorated to make it special. It occurred to me it might be kinda fun to showcase some of the beautiful and fun dishtowels I've embroidered for my home over the last few years. Please keep in mind I do not pull every towel out each year and most likely would not use these in every setting shown. One things for sure though, no matter how many I have I will likely embroider more.
My first picture is proof, that I love creating beautiful embroidery. I made this towel just this year after digitizing the design myself. I'm trying very hard to get my weight back under control so having lots of real cookies around just isn't a great idea. There was a time when I enjoyed baking and decorating beautiful sugar cookies. This year I decided I wanted to decorate some again, only these are so much more Keto friendly, don't you think?
Even though this is an older towel, it is one of my favorites. I made this one by painstakingly moving each letter around to create the heart. This was on a sign I saw in a store one day and just knew I had to duplicate it on a towel. I just love the sentiment of this towel!
This is another favorite. I don't use the Roosters for decorating in my kitchen as often as I used to but I do still pull them out from time to time. I made this towel to complement my roosters that year. I came up with the idea for the wording on this one. I have a few items in my kitchen that also have the diamond pattern shown on the rooster. I think the diamond pattern especially in black and white is so classic. When I saw this design I knew it was going to show up in my kitchen eventually, and it did!
Is there anything more Valentines-ish then this little cutie? There is just something so enjoyable about nostalgic decor for Valentines. I loved everything about this design when I saw it and knew she had to find a way into my home even it was seasonally.
I confess the year I made this towel and a for a few after, I have taken lots of beautiful pictures with it. I just love every single detail on this one from the beautiful flowers in the wine glass to the border fabrics I used to line the towel. This is definitely a towel worthy of decorating with. Just look how easily it pulled together this little wine vinette? So inviting!
Along those same lines, this is yet another beautiful towel worthy of decorating. Makes you just want to slow down and serve up a nice cup of joe with a friend, doesn't it? I created this one as a hanging flour sack towel because I absolutely cannot get enough of those. I'm a bit obsessed with flour sack towels y'all! Anyway, looking at it here it really should be on a tea towel too. It's way past time to bring back tea towels and teal time with friends!
Last but certainly not least is this dish towel I made a few years ago. I created the design layout of this towel all on my own using purchased fonts I own as well as design elements I own from other designers. One morning I had vision of what I wanted this verse to look like so that's when I opened up my software and began to pull it all together moving everything around until I found the look I wanted. I love, love, love this towel! I think this will be the years that I stitch this out to go in a frame. After last year, this is just the encouragement I think I would like to see on my wall year round.
Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed your visit. I'd love to hear which one is your favorite, because I certainly cannot just pick one. LOL! I hope to share a little more LOVE again if I can pull it all together by next weekend. It's always fun to share my work and maybe some of my ideas too. I hope you'll come again soon, have a great week!
Mary
