Let's make some napkins! These are quick, easy and inexpensive, finish beautifully and they will look lovely on your table. Suitable for gift giving, tucked into a basket with some additional small gifts or even just tied with a pretty ribbon and gifted on their own! Wonderful for a housewarming, bridal shower, birthday, picnic in the woods, you can think of a million ways to enjoy them and gift them.
To start you will need 1 fat quarter per napkin. 1 yard of fabric will make 4 napkins. You can mix and match your fatquarters if you like or have them all the same!
Cut your fabric to measure an 18" square. Press under 1/2" all around the edges of each napkin as shown below.
Using a ruler mark a line measuring 1" as shown below. Line your ruler up with the bottom of the folded fabric as shown and the top of your 1" should rest on the edge of the napkin as shown below. Make your mark with either an air erase pen, or a small sharp pencil, or chalk...just mark with something that will come out easily.
It will help you if you pin the edges of the Napkin as shown before you stitch on the line.
TIP: Start your stitching just a few stitches in from the edge and backstitch to catch and secure, then when you stitch off, backstitch again to secure your other edge.
This is important, you will clip each of the corners after you stitch, you want a clipped shape like the photo below with the wide part to the outside edge and the narrow part to the inside as shown below. Becareful not to clip your stitches, you don't need to get that close.
Finger press your seam open and turn it right sides out, gently use a chopstick or a knitting needle to help turn out your point. Press your napkin and topstitch close to the turned edge as shown below.
You can press again and you are finished! You have beautiful mitered corners and are ready to set your table!
Great photos to show the steps. Thank you.
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