Hand Painted Linen Kitchen Towels & Napkins - Slow Diy Project

In my kitchen, each flavor I alter out accents to brand the otherwise neutral room experience to a greater extent than similar that item fourth dimension of year.  Little touches similar adding fresh colored kitchen towels too a stack of linen napkins tin brand a large deviation inwards making the entire room experience similar Spring, for example.  To last able to continue upward amongst my seasonally evolving kitchen, I convey made a diverseness of custom kitchen linens that boast my favorite color combinations too hand-stitched monograms.   Best of all, this projection tin last done past times the most un-gifted artist.

UPDATE : I've started stocking my ain collection of linens inwards my Everyday Occasions store - some inspired past times these hand-painted towels.  My collection for this flavor has a option of warm, muted tones for fall.  Some fifty-fifty come upward amongst coordinating cocktail napkins too dinner napkins - perfect for making your kitchen too household unit of measurement dinners cozy too warm this season.  Visit the store here.

The Entire Linen Collection (in guild of photo) :

Cream & Grey : Tea Towels & Napkins

Warm Grey Plaid : Tea Towels

Classic Cafe White & Black :  Tea Towels

Orange & White : Tea Towels

Natural Multi Striped : Tea Towels & Cocktail Napkins

hand painted
linen kitchen towels & napkins

    textile paint
    brushes
    painter’s tape
    water
    drib cloth or arts and crafts paper
    linen fabric
    sewing machine
    thread
    duet of scissors   

Directions :

Begin past times cutting the linen into the size of the item you’d similar to make.  For a napkin, a 20-inch foursquare is a measure size, too 24 past times 30-inches industrial plant corking for kitchen towels.  Allow 1-inch extra roughly the perimeter for the seam.  Place a slice of arts and crafts newspaper on your surface earlier beginning.  Place the linen downwards too run painter’s record to create stripes.  For a ‘plaid’ resultant you’ll demand to practise the perpendicular stripes inwards divide phases.

To brand the paint, mix the color you’d similar to use, too thence dilute it amongst ii parts water.  Dip your pigment brush inwards the paint, too thence dab off until near all of the liquid is off of the brush, leaving entirely a modest amount coating the bristles.  This is called a dry out brush method.  Lightly start out to brush the liquid on amongst fifty-fifty strokes.  Continue until all of the stripes are a homogeneous color too intensity.



Remove the record too repeat to consummate your selected pattern. 

Let the pigment dry out for several hours. 

Hem the edges of the linens amongst a 1/2 seam.  Wash inwards cool H2O too press.

I pose an "H" monogram on our napkins amongst embroidery floss using a uncomplicated running stitch.  

Here's the in-one-image snapshot for pinterest!

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