Mice Kitchen Towels

Unique handmade kitchen towels featuring mice from Bluebird Gardens. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Mice Kitchen Towels

Well, all my mice are gone.

These are charming, hand-embroidered mice on our handmade muslin kitchen towels, a throw back to vintage designs and days of the week towels with different scenes.

One of my first projects when I learned to embroider when I was 9 years old was a kitchen towel set with dogs in different scenes. Since then, I have not only embroidered a variety of other designs but had my eye on this set in case it didn’t sell.

The kitchen towels are also handmade from brand new cotton muslin.

Take a peek at some of the scenes depicted on each of the handmade muslin kitchen towels. This one shows a very industrious mouse.

Tuesday’s mouse kitchen towel is industrious and irons. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Not to be concerned, on Wednesday the mouse makes up for all of the work by taking time to enjoy the flowers.

Wednesday’s mouse enjoys flowers on this unique kitchen towel. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Not that I confess to having a favorite mouse but this dapper Sunday gent has a nice happy vibe to him, don’t you think?

Dapper Sunday mouse in our unique kitchen towel set. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

This the last set of unique made in USA muslin kitchen towels, we made two sets and sold another set before it was even posted with one of our Sleeping Cats handmade quilts.

Once admired for the last time, into their shipping box with a little bow to keep them together.

All tied up and ready to ship! (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

So glad these handmade kitchen towels have a new home!

Charlotte

Kitchen Towels Headed Down Under

Sunbonnet Sue with Cats Kitchen Towels Headed Down Under

You have probably heard of the traditional Sunbonnet Sue quilt with a little girl in a gardening hat and long dress, a favorite applique pattern from mid-Century. I know you know about cats so this custom kitchen towel set combined both into different scenes, one for each day of the week.

When the kitchen towel set sold, it was now my job to decide which of the seven custom hand-embroidered kitchen towels would get our label.

At first I thought I would sew the label into this scene where Sunbonnet Sue is picking up one of the cats.

Two cats keep Sunbonnet Sue company in this custom kitchen towel. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Then I thought I should pick another scene where Sunbonnet Sue is walking while she carries a basket of apples. This set is headed to Australia so maybe a travel theme was more appropriate than playing with cats.

Sunbonnet Sue carrying a basket of apples in this kitchen towel. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Finally a decision, and a new maker label was sewn onto the back of the custom kitchen towel.

Adding a label to the back of one of the kitchen towels. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Can you guess which of the seven days of the week Sunbonnet Sue with Cats kitchen towels I selected?

Here’s a hint, it’s the one where I felt I could sew on the label without feline interruption!!

Charlotte

Four Unique Bluebird Dish Towels

Charming hand embroidered bluebird dish towels ready to add color to a kitchen!

Four Unique Bluebird Dish Towels

One of the ways to quickly update home decor is to change the towels, whether it be in a bathroom or a kitchen. These four unique bluebird dish towels are a charming way to add a handmade touch to that high end kitchen and still have a touch of variety in the dish towel colors.

The white muslin dish towels are handmade themselves, each 16x34 inch out of an absorbent white muslin cotton. The made in Missouri, USA dish towels have been hand-embroidered with vintage patterned bluebirds wearing ties and bows standing around flowers, which add color to the scenes.

We added a stabilizer to the back to give these unique dish towels a longer life after regular washings in cold water. Dry on cool setting in the dryer.

These will make a great housewarming gift, wedding gift, shower gift, birthday gift for the cook on your gift list, quite versatile when it comes to the occasion to give them. You could also divide them into two sets if you wanted to present one set each to two daughters as gifts.

This set of bluebird dish towels can be divided into two separate gift sets, too.

I like to give these practical gifts because then I know they will be used and appreciated every day.

Charlotte