The BERNINA One-Step Airthreader makes using decorative threads like SoftLoc a breeze (no pun intended)! You can make them the size of 24" or even bigger, but that's where my comfort zone ends as they would be bigger than my tea towels. Cross stitch charts are usually illustrated with squares, in colours or with symbols representing colours. Starting at the top, place the topper and napkin under the front of the foot with the side aligned with the Right Seam Guide.

Corded Stitch Napkins - Bespoke Bedlinen by Gilly Nicolson

All of our luxury bed linen is lovingly created in our artisan mills in Portugal from the finest fabrics, ribbons and trims. For example, some cross stitches are formed on both the right and wrong fabric side, or there are cross stitches on the right side and box stitches on the wrong side. I did some test sewing and found decreasing the left needle tension to 1 improved my stitch (notice the change shows the number in yellow). To ensure that your dining room table settings are attractive - why not decorate it with some elegant and vintage handcrafted linen napkins?Of course, we want to help in every way possible along this new exciting journey and since I do know how to sew that is where I can best help her keep some of the cost down. And while linen seems to be the fabric of choice for projects like this, any all-natural fabric, like cotton, will work just as well.

Napkins? | MagicLinen How to Hemstitch Linen Napkins? | MagicLinen

Grab hold of a small portion of the fabric in the folded hem, but be sure you’re only sewing through one layer. And while you can make them as small as a 12" mini napkin size, they will look more high-end in the standard dinner napkin size which is somewhere around 18" square when finished.

In folk art world wide there are traditional cross stitch patterns that differ not just in shape and colour but also in technique. These will dissolve during the first wash but if you want them gone before dinner, dab with water or use tweezers to remove. Usually, diy cloth napkins are simple squares, and they come in a number of standard sizes: most popular are 16", 18", 20", or even 22" square. I think we might start an afternoon tea tradition, and I'm thinking which of my favorite table runner patterns to use to sew a matching diy table runner. This means that the bobbin thread will end up on the top side - use a pretty, matching bobbin thread color!