Hand Embroidered Flour Sack Dish Towel?
#11
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 4,144
I agree. My mother taught me to embroider, and my grandmother taught her. Neither of them put anything on the back to hide the stitching. Just make it look neat on the back. Have fun ---- don't worry about it. The embroidery police don't come around very often.
#12
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 3,255
Another thought, the muslin backing works to keep the travel stitches, knots, etc. from showing through to the front of the completed blocks. With tea towels the back will still show even if you stitch through another layer. So no need to add an extra layer.
#15
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Horse Country, FL
Posts: 7,341
I hand embroider and gift kitchen towels frequently. The idea is that stitches are nice enough NOT to be covered (even on the back). It's okay to 'carry' thread for a short distance from one area to another, but if it's a large 'carry', one should end the thread, make a new knot and begin in the next area. The idea is to have it look good on the front and the back.
#17
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Southern United States
Posts: 481
I too had been wondering about this topic. I made a table runner for my Christmas table so the back doesn't show but I kept wondering about the towels. I do need to do better on making the back neater
#18
My mother did a lot of embroidery. She didn't put anything on the back of her dish towels. But she always told me the back should look as good as the front and hers did. Somehow she hid her knots and she never carried colors across. I didn't have the patience or the skill.
__________________
http://www.etsy.com/shop/kathykwilts?ref=ss_profile
http://www.etsy.com/shop/kathykwilts?ref=ss_profile
#19
It's official, I do hate you LOL!! My goodness, that is the neatest embroidery I have seem in a long, long time!! Congratulations!! Do you teach??
#20
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: In God's Kingdom in Tennessee
Posts: 12,724
Coopah thanks for your picture, and your back does look good just like the front. The stitch doing the cross stitch or I use to call them the x stitch brought back memories too me. The first embroidery stitch I ever did was this stitch. In the 70's also my mother bought me a small end table type scarf with the x's already stamped on it for me to try, and see if I liked embroidery. That is when I knew I loved it.
Then years passed before I really did more due to life, but then picked it back up a few years back, and wanted to learn more stitches and always have something on hand.
All of you have really helped me with your comments. Thank you again!!!!
Always good folks on here to help with our questions.
Hugs,
Susan
Then years passed before I really did more due to life, but then picked it back up a few years back, and wanted to learn more stitches and always have something on hand.
All of you have really helped me with your comments. Thank you again!!!!
Always good folks on here to help with our questions.
Hugs,
Susan
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
JuneBillie
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
24
02-14-2016 06:08 AM
Julie in NM
Links and Resources
7
01-12-2012 06:52 PM