?Tis the season when we?re all cooking and baking and giving gifts! Why not combine them" I thought it was finally time I rounded up some of the family?s famous recipes to commemorate them in the form of keepsake tea towels.
Every Thanksgiving we make Grandma Carole?s key lime pie (in addition to pumpkin), and Aunt Emily?s dolma recipe is the #1 most requested food for all gatherings on Matt?s side of the family.
I typed the two recipes on templates I created and uploaded them to Spoonflower for printing on fabric. Once they arrived, I sewed them into keepsake tea towels to give as gifts.

This project has been around forever, and it?s such a great idea! Spoonflower wrote up an article about turning recipes into tea towels many years ago. That tutorial includes photocopies of handwritten recipes (also very charming) but for these versions I added text to .jpg templates I created. If you?re interested in more ways, this article offers variations on this idea, using Gimp or Canva and other programs. I didn?t have the handwritten recipes and I wanted to get creative with photos and illustrations instead. For the key lime pie recipe, I turned to Canva where you can find royalty free illustrations, graphics, and photos for all your creative projects. I used this lime and leaves image for the key lime pie, and with Photoshop I eliminated a few images to create space for the recipe text. This watercolor lemon is a good image for personal use if you?re making something with le...