Hi Claude,
It does sound like a lot of stitches for the size.
I have sent you a PM.
hugs n roses, Meganne

I still have so much to learn, when you get an answer, I would love to know too. Peggy

Gee, most of mine are less than that - but I just found this one with more: A Months of the Year Sunbonnet Sue Pack - Lg from emblibrary.com - so maybe it isn't!

Clauden, for kitchen towels I'm just not going to put that much in them unless they are for display only. *4U

Have you thought about redwork designs? fruitbasket as example- they take little time and look nice, wash well.

First, if you like a design and want to put that much work into it, do it! I do, because I'm worth it. I embroider for my pleasure, and if it takes me an hour to do a kitchen towel, I don't care because I enjoy doing it, and the finished product. BUT, a design that dense would have to have a cutaway stabilizer, I think, to support the stitch count. Would you want cutaway on the back of a towel? If you will use it, maybe not. If it's only for looking pretty, maybe it doesn't matter so much. I don't think you could get away with hooping one tearaway and floating another piece underneath, but maybe it would work. I think it would pucker. I look forward to seeing what the other Cuties have to say, because I have my eye on some big designs for towels, too. Hugs, Marji

It sounds a bit heavy to me too. Are there satin stitches in it - like the name of the day of the week, or outlines in satin stitch - they consist of a lot of stitches, both underlay and topstitches, without making the design so dense it is almost bullet proof. 25000 is a lot to make a test stitch, but maybe you could do one and make a potholder to go with the towels?

I've done some that dense. They were for Easter and I did not intend for them to be used. I did have to use a cut away, but I used a doubled poly-mesh and trimmed it right up to the design. I'm sure if/when I have to wash it, it will have to be ironed back down flat. I love my Easter towels, so do one and see what YOU think.;)

You could try enlarging by 10% and see how it stitches out

Personally, I would not stitch a design out on a kitchen towel with dense design like that...you can not usually use that section to wipe with as it is too stiff anyway....just my thoughts....
I would search for less stitches design...

first off let me say that i agree with margialexa that its what you want and is it for looks? or use? if for looks then no prob if for use i think i agree with making it 10% bigger but this is howe i do any design that is dense #1 i do not waste my backing by hooping it to me you waste to much that way so i use old sheets and cheep fabric and hoop with that then i put my towel on top and pin it to the fabric for the dense ones i use a very heavy cutaway under the hooped fabric then it will stand up to your dense design and when done you cut very close to the design then i use whats called a cloud cover on the back just iron it over your design and it keeps all stiches from comeing out and the design does not wrinkle up on you i have never had any one show me any different i had to do it by trial and error and lots of them but as far as the stiches gos i dont care how many there is if i like it then i do it i just find a way its that trial and error thing GOOD LUCK mary

You've been given some good answers here Claude, my thought is to try one design, on a cheap towel, but of a similar type of fabric to the ones you want to use. Then make up your mind as to whether it is what you want. Personally, I don't worry about the number of stitches, if I want that design, I'll have that design - some of mine have had upwards of 50,000 stitches, and they've stitched beautifully, you don't know until you try them. Love and hugs sweetie, and I hope you're pleased with the result.

Well, I recently did towels for my niece that were approximately teh same size, and about the same amount of stitches. The designs are, indeed very dense. They will be fine for decorative purposes, but a bit too stiff for actual use.

Thank you to all for your good advices. I understand that I will keep those designs for decorative.( I thought that they came from ann the gran, but I have not find them again). For my kitchen towels I will try redwork I think that it will be more appropriate

I agree with the others, it's alot of stitches that's perhaps not nice for the use of the towel. but perhaps you can make it in a corner.on the site of Ann the grann are also day of the week designs, but they are not all for free.