Bridal Shower

My youngest daughter threw a bridal shower for her sister earlier this week. I made an assortment of kitchen linens and a family cook book to give as my gift.

The towels are just some plain white kitchen towels that I embellished with machine embroidery and applique.

I knitted a collection of dishcloths using a well-known simple pattern.

• Using 100% cotton yarn, cast on 4 stitches
• Knit 2, yarn over, knit across to the end. Repeat until you have 40 stitches on your needle.
• For decrease rows, knit one, knit 2 together, yarn over knit 2 together, then knit across until only 4 stitches remain.
• Bind off and work in edges.

The napkins are just some checked linen that I serged to finish the edges.

And I made some appliqued and quilted hot pads.

For the cookbook, I printed our family recipes, 4 to a sheet on white card stock.

Then cut them to 4" x 5.5" to fit in a 4x6 photo album.

I organized them into categories for ease of use.

Instead of a paper gift bag, I bought a Hawaiian themed reusable shopping bag to hold it all.