Garden Harvest Kitchen Towels: Cross Stitch

Here is the latest series of vintage embroidery patterns from my collection, perfect for this time of year: Garden Harvest Kitchen Towels. They’re from the 1940s and I think the designs in this set are gorgeous and perfect for kitchen towels. Each week I’ll upload a new pattern from this set for you to download. Here are the pattern details and instructions (you’ll find the first freebie download at the bottom):

Garden Harvest Kitchen Towels: Vintage Embroidery Patterns

Cross Stitch Kitchen Towels

In this pattern there are six motifs. Done in the simplest of embroidery stitches, they are to be used on kitchen towels and breakfast linens.

Materials Needed: Muslin, linen, flour sacking, gingham or similar cotton materials are suitable for breakfast linens; linen or cotton toweling or flour sacking are suitable for towels.

Towel: One yard of 16 or 18 inch dish toweling or flour sacking for each towel.

Breakfast Set: (One runner 15 x 36 inches and four mats 12 x 18 inches) 1 1/8 yards 36″ material.

Cloth (36 inch): 1 yard 36 inch material. One skein of six strand cotton in each color except baskets which need four skeins and shadows which need five skeins.

To Embroider Pattern: Work in the colors suggested under Color Schemes and embroider as follows:

• Crosses: Cross stitch
• Broken Lines: Running stitch
• Continuous Lines: Outline stitch
• Dots: French knots or satin stitch
• Single Lines: Single stitch

Color Schemes: Work the motifs in a variety of colors doing vegetables in their natural colors; baskets, tan, straw color, deep green or any color desired; shadows, lighter green, gray or a deep color; cross stitch line, predominating color of room or any color to harmonize with rest of motif or black.

Vintage Radishes Pattern

Radishes Embroidery Design For Kitchen Towels

The first pattern from the series is a big bowl of radishes freshly picked from the garden, they could also be beets but judging by the size of them I went with radishes.

Pattern Download:

• You can download the pattern here: Vintage Radishes Embroidery Design.

Printing Instructions:

• Save the pattern to your desktop first (right click, save as…), open the file, select “Print”, uncheck anything like “Maintain Aspect Ratio” and “Fit To Page” then print.
• Note: If you try printing the pattern from your browser window, it will print really large. Make sure to print from the file on your desktop.
• These will all fit on an 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of paper.

Transferring The Pattern:

• If you need help transferring the pattern, see this page: Embroidery Pattern Transfer Tips.

I’ll have another freebie pattern download from this series up for you next week (Wednesday), I hope you like this new set!

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