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Add a personal touch to your kitchen with embroidered cloth bags to keep your silver looking its best.

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Embroidered Silver-Cloth Bags

Embroidered Silver-Cloth Bags

Materials:

Pacific cloth/silver cloth
tailor's chalk
embroidery hoop
light gray embroidery floss
embroidery needle
sewing machine

1. Cut two equal size squares of Pacific/silver cloth, a cloth treated to prevent tarnish in silver and other precious metals.

2. Tighten one piece of cloth in an embroidery hoop (figure A). Working with metallic embroidery floss, embroider initials, designs and/or pictures (figure B).

3. Make a simple pillowcase-style bag out of the two cloth pieces by sewing around three sides of the bag and hemming the opening (figure C).

Figure A

Figure B

Figure C

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