Vintage Handwritten Recipe Dish Towel - DIY with Transfer Paper (2024)

Recipe Dish Towel

My mom loved pickles! I did not! I would always give her the pickle off of my hamburger and she’d add it to her’s. The more pickles the yummier, in her mind. Mom loved pickles so much she even canned her own. We still have her handwritten recipe that she used to make Mustard Pickles.

As a gift for my three older sisters, I made these dish towels with mom’s recipe on them and they absolutely loved them! The towels were the perfect gift for Mother’s Day but they would make a great gift anytime! If you have old recipes that were written by your mom or grandma, you can make one too as a gift for someone or to keep for yourself, or you could even write out a favorite recipe of your own and put it on a dish towel as a keepsake for your children. Rich with memories and sentiment they’ll be treasured possessions for a long, long time to come.

Vintage Recipe Dish Towel

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Hand Written Recipe
• Transfer Paper
• Computer and Printer with Scanning Capabilities
• Plain White Dish Towel
• Sewing Machine
• Material for Ruffle
• Thread
• Wide Ribbon

Here’s What to Do:

1. Scan your handwritten recipe into your computer.

2. IMPORTANT! Turn the recipe so that the words appear backward on your computer screen. They will then appear correctly when you iron the transfer onto your dish towel.

3. Add clip art and a recipe title (be sure to turn the words backwards) to dress up your design. Adding the name of the person who wrote the recipe is a special touch.

4. Print out your design according to the directions on the transfer paper package.

5. If necessary, iron your dish cloth so that it is nice and flat and then, following the directions on the package, iron the transfer paper with your design onto the dish towel.

6. Measure your material for the ruffle 5 or 6 inches longer than your dish towel.

7. Sew a hem on the material.

8. Pin the unhemmed side of the material onto the dish cloth, gathering it as you go to form a ruffle.

9. Sew the unhemmed side of the ruffle onto the dish cloth.

10. Pin your ribbon to the dish cloth covering the unhemmed side of the ruffle where you sewed it to the dish cloth.

11. Pin the ribbon ends under and pin them as well.

12. Sew along all four edges of the ribbon to securely attach it to the dish towel.

That’s all there is to it! Now you can display and enjoy your beautiful Vintage Recipe Dish Towel or package it up pretty and give it as a special gift!

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