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Cross Stitched Valentine’s Day Tea Towel

 

Cross Stitch Valentine's Day Towel - Cross Stitch a Valentine's Day design on a drop cloth scrap to create this cute tea towel.  It looks great hanging from your stove or on display in your kitchen or bathroom counter.  virginiasweetpea.com

 

Did you cross stitch in its 1980’s heyday?  I adored cross stitching and remember staying up until the wee hours of the night to finish a section.  I recently pulled out some of my old cross stitch pattern books and embroidery floss and made a tea towel  for Valentine’s Day.

To cross stitch on fabric, waste canvas is basted over the fabric, the cross stitch is completed, and then the waste cloth is removed.

If you need a cross stitch pattern to use to make a project like this, search “Free Cross Stitch Patterns” and you’ll find a motif that you can use.


How to Make a Cross Stitch Valentine's Day Tea Towel using a Drop Cloth - virginiasweetpea.com

Wetting the waste cloth makes the threads easy to remove.  Since I cross stitched a few small areas at a time, I trimmed away the excess waste cloth and then carefully pulled out the threads one at a time.  Wetting the waste cloth for this small project wasn’t necessary.

How to Make a Cross Stitch Valentine's Day Tea Towel using a Drop Cloth - virginiasweetpea.com

Heart with Waste Canvas being Removed

 

Do you recognize this heart design from the 80’s?  My friends and I had all sorts of home accessories with hearts.

How to Make a Cross Stitch Valentine's Day Tea Towel using a Drop Cloth - virginiasweetpea.com

 

I made my tea towel out of a scrap of drop cloth.  The cross stitching took a few hours finishing the towel with a few straight seams was a breeze.

DIY Cross Stitch Valentine's Day Towel - Make this cute tea towel using a drop cloth scrap.  It looks so cute hanging on the stove in the kitchen or on display in a bathroom.  virginiasweetpea.com  #crossstitch #valentinesday #valentinesdaycraft

 

My towel will hang from my stove until February 14.

DIY Cross Stitch Valentine's Day Towel - Make this cute tea towel using a drop cloth scrap.  It looks so cute hanging on the stove in the kitchen or on display in a bathroom.  virginiasweetpea.com  #crossstitch #valentinesday #valentinesdaycraft

Have you decorated for Valentine’s Day?  This is it for me, so far!

 

12 Comments

  1. I was in the thick of the cross stitch craze! I did lots and lots of projects, but I haven’t taken up the needle and floss and waste cloth in years.

  2. I remember taking a class and making one small needlepoint that said Home Sweet Home with a heart on it and then my baby was born and that was it for taking classes…lol.

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