I like your suggestion of any time designs. Have you suggested that to emblibrary? I made my oldest three granddaughters aprons a couple of years back with the Gingerbread recipe, the Peppermint Cocoa and this one. I appliqued the stitch out onto the apron.
This turned out wonderful, Christine, despite your issues!
One of the kid fun favorite recipes. Looks nice. :)
Beautiful design, it looks great.
As noah says, I think also to put a new back on it would solve the problem. X
Can u just add a new back and cover everything up???
That is what I'd do too. I have put another backing onto something similar. Is this a hand towel? I can hardly tell from the picture. If it is, just do another recipe on the other piece and it can be reversible.
I make my towels reversible end to end. Christmas design on one end and a general design, such as floral, on the other. Or, Easter and Fall! Love your stitchout, sorry about machine probs.