With all of the Fall baking you’re going to be doing over the next few months, you’re going to need some extra cute kitchen towels to go along with the muffins and cookies and pies and quick breads that you’ll be delivering to your friends and family. Using seasonal fruit as stamps makes these apple (and pear!) towels darling and festive.
a sheet of freezer paper or waxed paper the same width as your tea towel
fabric paint in 4 colors (2 pairs of coordinating colors, like 2 shades of red and 2 shades of green) I used Martha Stewart multi-surface satin paints mixed with the tintable fabric medium and really liked it.
black fabric paint
a small paint brush
1. Wash and dry your tea towel. Iron it if you have to to get it nice and flat. Lay it on a large, clean work surface, with the sheet of paper under it to protect your work surface from paint.
2. Cut the apple into quarters. First cut it in half, then cut each half in half again. Keep the quarters together in pairs. Use the apple corer or cookie cutter to cut a semicircle out of the front edge of each apple quarter (refer to the pictures if you’re not sure what I mean by this).
3. Place a small amount of each color of paint on a paper plate. Pick up one apple quarter and rub the front of it in one color of paint, wiping excess paint on the paper plate or cardboard. Gently press the apple stamp onto the tea towel, then set it down somewhere out of the way. Repeat with the matching apple quarter and the coordinating paint color, leaving a small gap between the two apple stamps. You’ll end up with a complete apple that is half one color and half another!
4. Repeat Step 4 with the other two apple stamps and the other two colors.
5. Continue stamping until you like how the towel looks. When you’ve stamped as many apples as your little heart desires, use the black fabric paint and the paint brush to add two apple seeds to the center of each stamped apple, as shown in the pictures.
6. Allow the towel to dry completely. Lay it on an ironing board, cover it with an old pillowcase or scrap of fabric, and go over the whole thing with a hot iron.
7. Your towel should be good to go now! You can use it as you would any other kitchen towel, and can wash it on cold.
Those are adorable!!
Thanks, Jen!
These would make an amazing teacher gift at some point this year. š
Agreed! I hadn’t even though of that, lol!
I love these! My kids will love to make these! We are making these.
They were really fun to make! I did not invite my kids to help this time, but only because I was in a hurry. Totally kid-friendly!
Really lovely tea towels and it seems to need not too much effort. It was a good idea to use two hues of red and green. That looks much more interesting. Very pretty stuff!!!
Thank you! Setting everything up and taking pictures took much longer than actually making the towels. It really is a quick and easy little project!
Loooove this!! So cool that you used real apples–like we did in school on construction paper! An original DIY! š
I just did a stamping project myself this week, my first! http://www.adventuresindressmaking.com/2013/09/diy-tribal-print-tee.html
Yep, just like elementary school! And oh my gosh, your tribal print tee is insane!! Such amazing results!
what that is so cute, melissa!!! i love the end print – looks like vintage “Vera” or marimekko!
Somebody else thought it looked like Orla Keily, and I thought it looked like an old Alexander Henry fabric print that I used to love! I guess I just have designer taste! š
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Great !!! This is so phenomenal!!!That is very impressive! Towels are gorgeous and the makeover is totally amazing. I love it. You really did a super job with the Towels! I use to do buy online Towels as its time saving.
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