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Towel Topper Set (In-the-Hoop)

Bring creative flair to your kitchen decor with a charming towel topper and coordinating embroidered towel! Just stitch the towel topper in-the-hoop following the simple instructions below, and combine with a matching towel to complete the project. These towel sets make great gifts!

Supplies


Project Needs & Notes:

- Small pieces of quilter's cotton
- Embroidery thread
- Medium-weight cutaway stabilizer
- Tear-away stabilizer
- Temporary spray adhesive (such as Gunold KK100)
- Scissors
- Masking tape
- Air erase pen
- Sew-on snaps
- Towel
- 3/4" elastic
- 1" belt strap

Design featured in this tutorial is:
X14641, Flamingo Towel Topper (In-the-Hoop)

Products Used


  • Fabulous Flamingo Towel Topper (In-the-Hoop) (Sku: EMP70098-1)

Steps To Complete

A template, or printout, of a design is an excellent tool to help with placement. Print off template of the design using an embroidery software. If you do not have embroidery software, Wilcom TrueSizer is a free program to use.

Center the template on the folded towel, and make sure the top edge of the design sits about a 1 1/2" below the top edge of the folded towel. Using an air-erase pen, mark the center point and the horizontal and vertical axis lines of the design.

Unfold the towel. Cut a piece of cutaway stabilizer that is larger than the hoop, and spray one side with temporary adhesive. Smooth it onto the back side of the towel behind where the embroidery will be sewing.

Extend the axis lines using a ruler and air-erase pen to make it easier to hoop accurately. Then hoop the towel and stabilizer together tightly, lining up the drawn axis lines with the marks on the hoop.

The embroidery hoop may hang off the edge of the towel, but as long as the stabilizer is hooped and adhered to the fabric, this is okay.

Load the embroidery file onto the machine, and secure the hoop in place. Then move the needle directly over the marked center point on the towel.

Follow the color change sheet, and embroider the design.

Once the embroidery has finished sewing, unhoop the towel, and trim away the excess stabilizer from around the design.

The embroidered towel is complete -- next, embroider a towel topper to match!

When you download the in-the-hoop towel topper design, you will find multiple files.

Some are the embroidery files, and the others are dieline files marked with the letters "DL". Dielines are used to cut the fabric to the correct shape and size.

Open and print each dieline file using an embroidery software. If you do not have an embroidery software, Wilcom TrueSizer is a free program to use.

First spray one side of a piece of cutaway stabilizer with temporary adhesive. Smooth the stabilizer onto the wrong side of the fabric piece.