Check Out This Cute Easter Egg Towel

Sometimes it’s fun to stitch up little home decor projects to go with the seasons, and sometimes you want to make something that’s actually useful.

This Easter Egg Cross Stitch Towel falls into the cute but useful category, and it’s a pretty small project you still have time to stitch for the holiday.

Get the chart over at Fave Crafts. You’ll have to do some literal cutting and pasting to get the full length of the chart in one piece, but it’s no big deal to stitch from the different pieces show.

There are lots of colors involved in this one, but use whatever you have in your stash to make eggs all your own. You might even try using an ombre thread to get different colors without having to change colors so often.

[Photo: Fave Crafts.]

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A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere.

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own.

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to.

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag.

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

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