by anothrcookiejar ( edited 31 Jan 2013 ) 31 Jan 2013

Hi Cuties,

I need your help! My DD has asked me to help her with a hooded towel for a baby shower. I've never done a towel before, so I need all the help you can give me!! The design are from Applique Corner and are appliqued.(They have some really adorable ones BTW!)

Do I wash the towel first?

What stabilizer do I use?

Do I hoop the towel?

Thanks for any and all help you can give me, Linda

P.S.If you saw this post before I edited, I have a new Kindle and it wants to correct my English,(if I want it too or not!) and it's driving me crazy!! So yes Applique Corner should be applauded for the great designs, But that is not what I was trying to say!

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Comments (2)

by airyfairy 01 Feb 2013

I do not wash towels first as they never look quite the same and I have never had any problems. I hoop medium tearaway. Spray the hooped tearaway with adhesive and smooth the towel on to the tearaway. I then pin a water soluble plastic over the top in each corner to hold the plastic in place. It you have never done this before I would try out the design on a cheap facecloth to see how it looks.

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by noah 31 Jan 2013

hello i hoop only heavy tearaway and i pin my towel around the frame .Then i put thin wws on top of my towel so the piture or words don't sink or get lost on/in the towel pretty easy right lol hugs Carolyn

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by sewmom 31 Jan 2013

You don't have to wash the towel first. I've done it both ways but not with an applique. If you want to make sure it won't shrink later then get it wet with a rinse and spin cycle and dry it in the dryer. You wouldn't have to do a full wash. The heat is what shrinks it.

by sewmom 31 Jan 2013

I have also done a basting frame with the tear away stabilizer on bottom, then towel, then WSS on top. That would be instead of pinning.

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