Valentine Tea-Towel DIY: Owl Always Love You
Valentine Tea-Towel DIY: Owl Always Love You. Fabric Paint design of a Mama and Baby Owl perching on a branch, love hearts streaming between them.
We haven’t done a tea-towel design with fabric paints for awhile, like this one or this stenciled one.
This post talks about the easiest design transfer method for fabric.
Today I want to try a cartoon style outline with black fabric marker, combined with a watercolor type of blending to add some color to a white muslin tea towel.
Ready to start?
Valentine Tea-Towel Tutorial
Supplies:
- 100% cotton muslin tea towel.
- Dual tipped fabric markers.
- Small Chisel tip stiff artist brush: this set of brushes from Amazon should contain a couple that would work.
- Isopropyl alcohol for thinning and spreading color.
- Our Owl PDF Pattern: fill the form at the end of the post to download.
- Pencil for tracing pattern onto muslin.
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Directions:
- Pre-wash and damp dry the muslin towels. Iron while still damp. Because damp fabric irons smoother than dry.
- When the towels are dry, place the printed pattern underneath a towel where you want the design. The center of one end is usually where you see a design on purchased towels. I often put the design in a corner. Trace the design onto the towel with a blunt #2 pencil.
- With the hard tip of the black fabric marker, trace all the lines.
- Pick the colors you wish to use for “watercolor painting” the design. The owls are light brown or gray, the branch dark brown, and the leaves are green. Apply the paint, and immediately dab a chisel brush in alcohol and go over the color to spread it. Don’t use too much alcohol, as the colors will spread too much. It’s okay if a little gets outside the black lines, but you don’t want a pond.
These tea towels are a quick and easy project, and I think we’ll give one to our DIL’s for Valentine’s Day. And keep one for our own kitchen. One always needs new dish drying towels, right? (So you can use the old, stained ones for mirrors and windows. Muslin is the best for shining all glass, not only dishes.)
Will you try this Valentine Tea-Towel craft?
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