Kitchen Linen Set for the Hope Chest--An Overview

For my daughter's recent birthday, I made her a kitchen linen set for her hope chest.  I began with a foundation piece of fabric which I sewed into an apron.

 

 

Using that fabric and its colors, I decided to make potholders, dish clothes, and trim dish towels.

I began by making potholders.  I used the foundation fabric for the top of 6 potholders.  I backed two with a reddish orange fabric, two with yellow fabric, and two with brown fabric.  The potholders have two layers of batting inside to protect hands from hot pots.  I also quilted the top fabric, batting layers, and backing fabric on the sewing machine so they could be washed without the batting breaking up inside.

Next, I crocheted 6 dishcloths in yellow, 6 in brown, and 6 in a reddish-orange cotton yarn.  These are very simple to make, using only the single crochet and double crochet stitches.

Every kitchen needs dish towels, so that's the next project I undertook.  I used 3 brown dish towels and 3 yellow dish towels I bought at the discount store.  For these, I then used a thin baige cotton thread and crocheted a small flower.  I hand sewed 3 flowers at the top and bottom of those towels.

I found some baige dish towels online and used 6 of them to fill in the kitchen set.  For those towels, I cut 2 inch wide strips of fabric in the foundation fabric and in the reddish orange fabric.  I ironed under 1/4 inch on all edges, then sewed those strips down near the bottom and top of the baige dish towels, using the foundation fabric on 3 towels and the reddish orange fabric on 3 towels.

That means this set has 12 dish towels total, 18 dish cloths total, and 6 pot holders total in addition to the apron.  At some point, I'd like to add some pot scrubbers in the selected colors of brown, yellow, and reddish orange.  These can be crocheted out of netting.