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We buy them at the tractor supply stores if you have one near you. TSC, Runnings, Bomgaars etc. I can also get them at the old Ben Franklin store now called B&F Variety.
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My favorite are Kay Dee Designs. They are white, thick and embroider beautifully. I checked online and they are at Mainstreet-store.com. Comparable, and excellent flour sack towels are sold at Hobby Lobby and Hancock Fabrics. They are Aunt Martha Premium (130 thread count). They are 'wrinkly', and not everyone likes that, but they do iron out very nicely. I just made 14 towels for gifts, and every stitch came out as I expected. These are tough towels, hemmed, and have a hanging tab in one corner. With 40% off coupon for both places, I have been getting them for about $2 each towel. Very reasonable for excellent quality towels.
I will add I purchased 10 pkgs (The white ones. I needed to get them done quickly so I purchased all at once hoping they were the good ones.) from Blain's Fleet Farm and returned every one of them. Too thin. The count should be at minimum 130 (which makes a premium towel). They are cheaper there, but I will pay a tad more for quality. If you are hand-embroidering, they may be ok. For machine embroidery-I personally won't embroider on anything less than premium towels. |
Sometimes I get some from ebay but the quality varies at times and the last ones were terrible. Most have been great
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Originally Posted by crashnquilt
(Post 4734170)
I use the flour sack towels from Walmart. I wash them, no softner, then partial dry. Then I use a strong starch solution and iron them. Embroidery does very well for me.
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One of my friends doubles the towels before she embrodieries on them. Makes nice towels that way.
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I buy mine at Fleet Farm. They are quite heavy, but it doesn`t take much use and they are good to go. I embroider them after washing them, and they last a long time. The price was real good too.
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Originally Posted by Edie
(Post 4738685)
Check Herrschner's. They have them online herrschners.com. Maybe that will help you. I always got mine in January at Walgreen's. I would buy like 49 at a time, so I could embroider them and give them as a seven day set (I never put the day on) They also have good transfers also (you can find the same at Hancock's). Hope this helps! Edie
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JoAnn's has them and you can use your 40% or 50% coupon
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Walgreen Drug store will have them on sale at different times. They are usually nice and thick to sew on. I have gotten a lot for 88 cent to $1.25 each and they are full sack size. Quilt for fun Grandma G
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Thanks for the post and all of the replies. I had purchased them at walmart, but when I went to get some this week they looked like cheesecloth. I wanted to machine embroider some for Christmas gifts. I will be going out of town next week and will check out their Hobby Lobby.
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