janecat

I want to teach my 9-year-old granddaughter how to embroider. When I was a child, I learned how to embroider by doing cross stitch on pillowcases and dish towels.

I don't want to do counted cross stitch. I want to teach her regular embroidery-type cross stitch. But I am having trouble finding cross stitch patterns that I could stamp onto a pillowcase. And all of the dishtowels that I've looked at that are plain cotton seem to be very loosely woven and don't seem like they would work for embroidery.

Do you have any suggestions of what kind of cross stitch project I can use with my granddaughter? Have any of you taught this skill to children? Do you know of a source for simple cross stitch iron-on patterns? I need some good ideas.

Thanks!