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Great Grandma's Embroidered Towel Wall hanging

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 I have a finish that I actually finished THIS week! Yay! I am posting on my phone so the pictures aren't in the order I want but at least they are all there! Haha! I made this wall hanging for a friend. It is made from the embroidered hand towels of a great grandmother. She wanted to be able to showcase them in some way. They are fun, western designs which were located in the top left part of each towel. I seamed each towel in a way that the outer striping of the towel equally borders the two sides of the design. Then, not wanting to lose the precious red hand stitching that hemmed each towel I seemed the towels once again to make that him border the top and bottoms of the design. Not sure if that makes sense but you can probably see a little bit of my seaming in the pictures. Not perfect! I also chose to include some pieces of the red hemwork in each corner. I basically made a whole cloth quilt first out of the red backing and bound it in red as well. You can't see it but I d