Rachel Turns Recipe Cards into Towels (and I make her write a blog post)

Awhile ago Heather mentioned that now that she has a fancy kitchen, she should get nice towels and other accessories.  When I came across this idea:
http://blog.spoonflower.com/2012/07/turn-recipes-into-tea-towels.html

I knew that I wanted to make some for her (and me, and our cousins...)

Nik and I scanned in a recipe card (banana bread on the front, no-stick pan grease on the back) Grandma Jo had written for me. Also, there is a note on the side I made for making the banana bread into banana chocolate chip muffins, which I often bring to class once in awhile if it's my birthday or for a treat. Students have told me that if this grad school thing does work out I should bake muffins.

Nik edited the scanned images in GIMP, which I think wasn't too complicated even though we don't really know all the cool features it has. We put a blue border around the outside to make it extra cute when I turned over the edges to sew it. If I did this again, I would make sure we had at least 2-3in of blue between the "cards". In some places it was a bit small (my fault) and made rolling the edges over to sew them together a bit tricky.

We ordered 2 yards of the fabric (in the cotton-linen canvas as recommended by the link) from spoonflower. It was super exciting when it came!

Then I stitched the towels up quickly and added a little strip of ribbon in one corner so they could be hung on hooks. Heather liked them enough she thought this would make a good blog post!