Embroidered Dish Towels and Pot Holders

Embroidered dish towels and pot holders were on my list this year.  That is my list of gifts to create.  I have a dear group of lady friends that I play bridge with a couple of  times a month.  We’ve played together for 27 or 28 years.  We play bridge only with one another and although playing bridge is the reason we tell others we are getting together there are really several goals in mind.  One of these is to catch up on news,  share our concerns and happy tales and the other is the table snacks and desert!  Good reasons for good friends to get together.  After we had played together for a few years we started to exchange Christmas gifts.  Some years I have a good idea that I will work on for months ahead of time and other years I don’t have a good idea until shortly before Christmas bridge.  This fall has been challenging as far as time goes so I didn’t really have any good ideas until after Thanksgiving when my brother invited me to go on a road trip with him to Palm Springs.  I knew there would be time in the evenings for handwork and decided that I wanted to embroider some dish towels.  In the week that I was gone I managed to finish three towels and when I got home I added some hot pads and the gifts were good to go.  The embroidered dish towels and pot holders were fun to make.

Pot holders are another project that I always love.  They can be fast or take some time. I have simple ones and more complicated ones that I use in my own kitchen.  Along with the dish towels I added a mitt type pot holder and a simple square pot holder.  I have both kinds in my kitchen and use them all.  I found this great fabric with grapes and apples that was a darker fabric I knew would be perfect for simple pot holders.  They were multicolored with no white.  Pot holders get dirty so quickly I like ones that don’t show the food stains so quickly. Merry Christmas dear friends.