Beehive Towel

I got a new embroidery machine!!!!!!  Now I can do larger designs!!!!! Here is a practice run I did.  I took an inexpensive kitchen towel and embroidered a country style bee hive on it.Then I used my bias maker to iron some coordinating fabric to cover the less than attractive bottom and top edges. 

This design (sorry, don't know where I got it) took about 40 minutes to stitch.  WOW, that was a long time.  But how cute will this towel look as a gift with a bottle of our own honey.  Diana