Northlight how to... Create your own fabric napkins Make some napkins for your Christmas table or make some as gifts. Many of our fabrics are machine washable and will make into very stylish napkins. Cloth napkins are a lovely way to dress up your Christmas table or would make for a thoughtful gift for someone who cannot sew. Here are some napkin fabric ideas, each for different table settings: Christmas/Festive table setting: Julia Red Lovebirds Mountain Village Clea Bright Red Leksand Mini Beige Fagelsang Red Fiddelli Red
Country table setting: Cirkelblomma Leksand (Klippan) Pomona Belle Amie Italiensk Blomsterhylla Sommardrom White Coastal table setting: Shorebird Cloudbird Tatto’d Sailor Mona Blue Multi Graphic table setting: Jazz Jaffa Mello Herds
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Create your own fabric napkins Material Suitable fabrics include linen & cotton. Smaller scale patterns will work best Equipment Pins Thread Scissors Sewing machine
2.5cm 1cm
Folding lines Prewash your fabric and iron it well. Cut the fabric into 46cm squares (or larger). On the wrong side of the fabric, make a mark with a disappearing fabric marker in each corner where 2.5cm up and 2.5cm out intersects. You can also draw a light diagonal line from the corner up through the circle mark – this will help you to see where the folded fabric will meet to form the mitered corner. Fold each corner up to meet the circle mark you made, and then fold each corner again, bringing the first fold line up to meet the circle mark. Fold and press each edge up another 1.25cm so that the corner lines up at a diagonal with the line you drew.
Adjust the sides and press well so that the corners align with one another. Pin the edges in place if you wish. Working on the right side of the napkin, place the napkin in the sewing machine and topstitch 0.75cm from the edge of the napkin all the way around. Begin stitching from the first corner and stop stitching 0.75cm before you reach the other edge. Leaving the needle in the napkin, lift the presser foot and rotate the napkin. Continue stitching until you reach 0.75cm from the next corner and so on. This will result in a neat square of stitching, all 0.75cm from the outer edge of the napkin.