A friend of mine is a great tea aficionado, which she's been striving to turn me into for years. Her love of tea, along with this download from A Print a Day, inspired her Christmas gift, a set of embroidered napkins to go along with her tea.
I drew my cups instead of using the template, so that I could personalize them. I tried to make each one unique and specific to a time period.
I started by drawing the designs onto the napkins. I measured to make sure they were in approximately the same spot--I'm bad at guessing distances. I drew mine in with pencil, but that probably wasn't the best idea on my part. A washable fabric pen probably would have smudged less.After I embroidered each cup, I washed the napkins, ironed them, and folded them into the gift box.
I'm guessing that she liked them, because the day after I gave them to her, they were already on her dining room table! I wish I could have found such perfect and thoughtfully handmade gifts for everyone, but perhaps if I start early this year, I can make the next year a handmade Christmas!P.S. Other cute ideas for embroidered napkins could be birds or trees--especially at Christmas--mixers, cakes, or other kitchen paraphernalia. Check out this sweet free downloadable from LollyChops for more ideas!
P.P.S. Here are just a few sites to check out-- along with Flickr-- for some great embroidery ideas and patterns.
- Sublime Stiching, adorable patterns for a small price
- Pimp Stitch, plenty of cute ideas and patterns
- Feeling Stitchy, chock full of lovely and comical inspirations
- doe-c-doe, new/vintage patterns each week
- So september, cute free downloads and tutorials
- LollyChops, the aforementioned and ever-so-lovely
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