Gourmet Flour Sack Tea Towels
- Aubrey Barnes
- Apr 29, 2017
- 3 min read
MATERIALS NEEDED
Tea Towels - UPDATE: Since creating these Tea Towels I have found a much better Tea Towel to use. They are slightly different then the ones in the video but they offer a more clean crisp towel with much less ironing. They are excellent quality compared to the mainstay brand and I have purchased them half a dozen times. Check them out HERE.
Iron on Vinyl - I used this kind
Cutting Machine - (I have a Cricut Explore Air and can I just say I LOVE THIS THING!!)
Cut Files - Subscribe to my blog and I will email you them to you for FREE! SUBSCRIBE HERE
(I've updated the cut files slightly, the main update is the look of the whisk. The updated one is much easier to weed and should last longer since it doesn't have so many super small pieces.)
Check out the VIDEO below for more details on how to make these Tea Towels.
Step One: Collect Towel Designs
I designed all of the towels shown myself and I can share these files with you! The files are transparent PNG files that you can upload to your cutting software. I use them in the Cricut Design Space with no trouble but I haven't use any other programs so they may work differently with other cutting software.
Step Two: Cutting the Design
Once you have your designs selected you will want to decide how big to make it on your towel. I like to iron my towels flat and then fold them in half then in half again (Check out the video below for a visual of this). Then I will place my design on the end of the towel. My decals were about 5x6 inches depending on the design. Once you decide on the size go ahead and cut your designs out. Make sure the matte side of the vinyl is facing up and glossy side down. You will also need to flip the images you cut so that when you iron them onto the material they are the right direction.
Step Three: Weeding out the Excess Material
Once you have your design cut you will need to weed out the material that you don't need. I find that if you don't have a special tool for this you can use a sewing pick. You will want to be carful in areas where there is very thin vinyl. Areas like the whisk were tough areas for me because they were so small. They ended up working out just fine but I did need to be extra careful there.
Step Four: Ironing on Design
Start out by making sure that your towel is ironed nice and flat and folded the way you will want the design to be displayed. Set your iron to the lowest setting and turn the steam off. The lowest setting on mine is the cotton/linen setting. You will then want to go over it for a few seconds with the iron to warm up the surface and get rid of any moisture. Then place your design on the towel with the plastic glossy side facing up. The back of the plastic has a sticky surface so it won't slip around while your ironing it.
Once your design is in place you're ready to start ironing. Now when you read the directions for the Iron-On Vinyl it says that you can iron straight on the plastic but the first time I tried that it melted slightly around the edges. Now I don't know if my iron was just too hot or what the deal was. But that made me nervous so I always use a piece of thin scrap fabric or even another one of the thin tea towels would do the trick.
Now your ready to begin ironing. Iron the design for 15 seconds. If the design is bigger than your iron, you must iron each part of the design for 15 seconds. Once you have done this you can remove the plastic. I like to iron mine twice just to make sure it's on there good so I place the fabric back over the design and iron the entire design again for another 15 seconds. And there you have it.
I would love to see how yours turn out if you try this. Leave me a picture down below. Enjoy!
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