Kitchen towel embroidery designs: vegetables, strawberries, lavender

A tea towel is a small project, finished in an evening or two, for one's own kitchen or as a housewarming gift. These pictures show three towels: a white flour-sack towel with carrots, radishes and a pea pod in satin stitch, a cream linen towel with a strawberry cross-stitch border, and a grey-blue linen towel with a lavender sprig in one corner. Type a vegetable or a colour as a direction, such as chickens or a lemon.

• a housewarming gift towel
• a towel stitched in an evening
• a flour-sack towel for a farmhouse kitchen
• a border design for a plain tea towel

Frequently asked questions

What is a flour-sack towel?

A white cotton towel of the kind made from flour sacks, shown here with a row of vegetables in satin stitch.

What is on each towel?

Carrots, radishes and a pea pod across the lower half. A border of strawberries and leaves along the hem, with a red woven stripe above. A sprig of lavender tied with a bow, in one corner.

Can I type a different design?

Yes. Type a vegetable or a colour as a direction, such as chickens. A typed direction is a request for a new picture, not a promised result.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.