Tired of plain old shop-bought tea towels? Then spruce up your kitchen with this tea towel embroidery pattern. The humble tea towel is something we all have in our kitchens, and sometimes they can be dull and uninspiring, but you can transform them into a lovely design that compliments your kitchen with this wonderful pattern.
Cotton tea towels are easy to embroider, and the designs are endless. There is little difference between embroidering on a piece of fabric and a cotton tea towel. The gorgeous sunny design of a bottle with wildflowers was designed by Jessie Doe and is part of a set of designs for Love Embroidery issue 1. Your kitchen area will be brightened with this tea towel, or you could give it as a gift to someone special.
The tea towel embroidery pattern uses a variety of stitches, making it the perfect pattern for beginners seeking their next challenge and wanting to develop more intricate stitching skills. Below you'll find a stitching key and guides on how to do each type of stitch. If you are new to embroidery, be sure to check out our guide on embroidery for beginners, plus this handy embroidery stitches library which should be part of your arsenal!
If you love this design and want to create more tea towels with different designs, you can find plenty of free embroidery patterns right here, we're sure you'll find something to suit your taste.
Materials for the tea towel embroidery
- Cotton tea towel
- Stranded cotton: burgundy, light green, dark green, grey, orange, purple, turquoise, white, yellow
- Basic embroidery kit
Free tea towel embroidery template
And you’ll need our free tea towel embroidery template too.
Embroidery stitches key
- French Knots - See our How to do French knots guide
- Satin Stitch - See our How to do Satin Stitch guide
- Stem Stitch - See our Stem stitch embroidery guide
- Straight stitch - See our Straight stitch embroidery design for instructions
- Chain stitch - See our How to do chain stitch guide
- Back stitch - See our How to backstitch guide
