Another one done...well, ready to soak

Hello, everyone.

This is another project that had been started a while back. It is a flour sack towel, with one of the Aunt Martha's stamps on the fabric. This particular flour sack isn't as gauzy as some of them are. I still don't think I'd store flour in a bag of it, as the weave is somewhat loose.

I stabilized the front and back with Sulky Solvy. (Basted it down with some sewing thread to keep it stable.) Stabilization makes all the difference in the world on this floppy fabric.

The next dish towel will be an opportunity to try out the new Stick n Stitch dissolvable. It arrived after this one had been started.

This is the front side. The round "clover" flower was done in light purple daisy stitch/chain stitch. Then at the bottom dark purple seed stitches were added inside the chains. In the middle orchid-pink seeds. And at the top pale-pink seeds, to give some dimensionality to the blossom.
The pink blossoms are outlined in back stitch, as is the yellow one. The tiny lines inside the petals are one strand of outline stitch.

All threads were stash cotton floss, not labeled, either back stitch or outline stitch depending. As the piece hadn't been soaked yet, y'all can see the bits of Sulky Solvy reflecting light near the stitching.

And this is the back side. It's not glorious, but it's not too horribly ugly. One or two of the endings is lumpy but I'll let it stand. It is, after all, the back of the dish towel.