My tea towels are in sad shape!  I’ve had some of them since our wedding and they look like it!  It was time for a few new ones.

I love the flour sack towels and bought a pack of plain ones and then went through my photos to pick out some I could transfer to my new towels.  When we lived in Dublin, I took lots of photos of the cast iron that was every where.  I especially loved the crosses.  I thought a few of them would look cool on my tea towels!

Here are the original photos of the crosses –

Then in Photoshop I used the “cut out” tool (under the “Filter”, “Artistic” drop down) and erased the backgrounds to give me more stylized crosses.  I then printed them on transfer paper and ironed them on my tea towels! 

I also did a couple of just straight photographs I’d taken  –

You can’t really see the one under the Eiffel Tower.  It’s a photo of a pear on a tree in Yakima.  My roots….

I had a lot of fun doing these and now have a new easy gift idea!