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Musical Theme Table Napkins
PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS

Musical Theme Table Napkins Embroidery Project

By   Barbara Geer   on   July 11, 2011
  • SKILL LEVELIntermediate
  • TIME REQUIRED00:45
Description

Enhance your dining experience with these elegant napkins featuring a musical theme. Perfect for music lovers, these napkins add charm and sophistication to any table setting. Step-by-step instructions are included.

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Materials
  • Purchased or homemade napkins
  • Any small embroidery designs
  • Sewing machine
  • Embroidery machine
  • Embroidery thread in chosen colors
  • Tear-away backing
  • Scissors

    • Designs used in this project
    Final Product: What You Will Create
    Preface:
    Making Cloth Napkins
    Napkins can be made any size you like. Standard sizes are 12, 14 and 16 inch squares, but you don't have to be limited to that! Purchase 1 yard of fabric for every four napkins.
     
  • Prewash the fabric and press it with an iron
  • Make a template or pattern for your napkins out of any stiff poster board or cardboard. Your template should be square and should be 1/2 inch larger than your finished napkin size. For example, make a 16 1/2-inch-square template for a 16-inch-square napkin.
  • Place the template on the wrong side of your fabric and trace around the template with a fabric marking pen or fabric chalk.
  • Press each raw fabric edge under 1/4 inch.
  • Press that edge under once more.
  • Use a sewing machine to stitch the napkin hem. When you reach a corner, lift the presser foot of the sewing machine and swivel the fabric so that your stitching line remains straight. Keep the needle inserted in the fabric as you reposition it. Continue stitching until you have completed the hem all the way around.
  • You are now ready for embroidery.
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    Step 1:
     Layer cut-away backing and the napkin in a six inch or four inch hoop. The point of the napkin should be directly below the center of the hoop machine attachment. 

    Step 2:
    Attach hoop to embroidery machine. Trace the design, moving the needle to stitch as close as possible to the corner edges of the napkin. Embroider the design. When the design is completed, remove the napkin from the hoop and tear away the excess backing. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until all napkins are embroidered.

    You are now ready to set a beautiful table! And...you have just gone green with your napkins!

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    Step 3:
    The Finished Product
    The napkins are shown here in conjunction with the Keyboard Tablecloth and Keyboard Napkin Rings for a Festival of Tables, where each hostess decorated a table in an area of interest. Mine of course, was keyboard music.

    All of these projects could be revised to use any theme of your choice. Coordinating each piece of the table setting creates harmony (no pun intended), especially when combined with a centerpiece that accentuates that idea. Mine...a grand piano vase sitting atop an open antique Beethoven sonata book!

    Note: This project is suitable for any theme. Simply choose embroidery designs that suit your taste!
    Meet the Author: Barbara Geer
    Barbara Geer
    Barbara Geer, Creative Director/Digitizer, Grand Slam Designs, an embroidery stock design and contract digitizing operation, has been in the decorated apparel industry since 1990. She is a popular speaker at commercial decorated apparel and home embroidery events. She also is a frequent contributor to commercial and home embroidery publications such as EMB, Stitches, and Printwear. You may reach Barbara at 218-222-3501; e-mail [email protected] or visit her Web site at www.grandslamdesigns.com.
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