Decorated tea towels make a great DIY gift idea! Decorating plain cotton tea towels is an easy way to add practical, unique accessories to your home. Design and illustrate yourself with fabric markers or fabric paints. Or invite the children to illustrate some tea towels to give parents, aunties, uncles, grandparents. Make beautiful tea towels in bright colours like these (left). You can also use inkjet transfer paper to print your own full-colour images - even photographs - on DIY tea towel decoration projects. You can feature members of the family, favourite pets, dream holiday locations... personalised tea towels make such wonderful DIY Christmas gifts. And a lot of 'bang for your buck' in the value of delight when giving (your DIY decorated tea towels might even get framed).