Oh, a little detail from my kitchen that I meant to make note of…! I really love Jenni Tuominen’s “Unessa” print for Marimekko and wanted to frame it for my kitchen, but because the repeat is so humongous (81″!!), I decided to buy the tea towel instead. Marimekko’s tea towels are large (18.5 x 27.5″), beautifully silkscreened, and 100% linen. Perfect for framing!
I machine-stiched black grosgrain ribbon around the edges to make a nice border (I miter-folded a single length of ribbon as I sewed to ensure good corners), and popped the whole thing into a 19.75 x 27.5″ RIBBA frame from IKEA. Done!
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gawd you’re good.
VERY nice. I would never have thought of framing a tea towel… and it looks SO NICE!
Great idea! I really like the ribbon border. Your house looks fantastic.
ooo – stunning I love the colors and the detail…this print is overwhelming.
What’s miter-folding??
Oh man…is their anything you can’t do? I love grosgrain ribbon, btw!
Framing teatowels is where it’s at, yo!
Kat! I can’t knit, I can’t draw (at least not anymore, after sitting in front of a computer for 10 years), I can’t sing, I can’t DRIVE… I pretty useless, really, unless you need some mitered ribbon corners or a pot of vegetarian chili. Then I’m your girl. 🙂
To miter a ribbon (or any kind of fabric binding) at the corner, you first fold it back and straight (making a 45° fold on the back), press it, then fold it back down and over itself and press again. That way you wind up with a crisp 90° corner and no excess fabric to trim away. To avoid having to actually use a measuring tape, I did this while the whole thing was IN the sewing machine — I just used my flatiron (for my hair!) to press the ribbon when I got to the corner.
I would never have thought of doing that! There are lots of designs on textiles that I like, now I won’t be afeaid to buy some and frame it.
looks great ..well done !
I had been drooling over the season prints, and there is a tea towel of one of them!
http://www.shoprelish.com/Store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=681
Thanks so much for leading me to it!
I love Marimekko. I’ve been imagining Marimekko fabric art on my wall for awhile, but have problems picking a print.
Great idea on framing a tea towel too. Might have to borrow that one.
Just great, I have to buy that towel too.
Looks great! Thanks for sharing.
What a great idea! I love that print from Marimekko.
You may want to check out this great house in my village:
http://ifthelampshadefits.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-little-village-called-sumner.html
This is beautiful! What a great idea. .What width grosgrain did you use?
It was 7 years ago! I don’t remember, sorry.