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Making It Personal

Personalize towels, linens, a child's bath mat with a quick-stitch applique, ribbons or lace.

Bath time Fun
Add simple appliques to a child's towel and bath mat to make bath time more fun. Choose primary colors for the towels and bath mat and bright colored scraps for the appliques. It's easy to create your own designs from simple shapes. A child's book can provide a colorful beach ball, a car, a farm animal, or train to trace for a pattern. Pin the applique in place and zigzag stitch with your sewing machine around the edges.

Blossoming Towels
Buy plain hand towels and decorate them with floral appliques cut fabric. Apply them with fusible webbing (like Stitch Witchery) or zigzag stitch around the raw edges. Add a fancy trim such as satin ribbon, eyelet, or rickrack and you have a beautiful gift that costs a fraction of the cost of buying it finished.

From Plain To Fancy
You can add your own touch to a variety of purchased items such as: The edge of pillow cases, napkins, tablecloths, the pocket of a bathrobe, apron, child's overalls, curtains, decorative throw pillows. Turn a plain hanky into a fancy one in minutes with a beautiful lace trim or applique.

Copyright Leslie Linsley, author
Reprinted by permission HouseNet, Inc.

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