Dining room decor forms an integral element of the Provencal Style. Gharpedia through this blog shares an easy-to-make DIY tablecloth project on preparing square tablecloth and napkins. Dining room tablecloth ideas are many, but doing it yourself invites creativity and saves money. Read on to know more…
Why DIY Tablecloth and Napkins
Preparing square tablecloths and napkins is a piece of cake – all you need is a suitable piece of fabric and a border trimming. And so, people choose DIY tablecloth ideas over ready-made tablecloths. Genuine hand-blocked Provencal fabric can be bought in special stores, but there are many machine-printed versions too. Fabric to make tablecloths varies from cotton to satin to silk to polyester. The choice of fabric matters, specially while selecting the trim. The trim that we’ve used in this DIY Project is called lace, but colour-coordinated cotton fringe would also look good around the tablecloth. Other types of trims are rick rack, braid, jacquard, ribbon, bias tape and gimp.
Time to Design Your Own Tablecloth
Before moving to the procedure of making tablecloth, the first and foremost thing to do is to prepare everything required to make it happen. Design your own tablecloth, make a blue print of tablecloth in rough, then collect all the materials and keep them at a distance of a hand.
Things Required
- Fabric for the tablecloth and six napkins – 2.25 m of 1.2 m width fabric
- Pins
- Scissors
- Sewing machine
- Thread
- 12 m of contrasting rick-rack braid
The Step-by-Step Process of Making Tablecloth
This is sewing at its simplest, but the biggest effort here is setting up the sewing machine!
How to Make a Tablecloth
- Cut out the square tablecloth by taking one corner of the fabric across to meet the other side. Align the edges, smooth the triangle flat, and cut the fabric using the top edge as a guide. This will provide an accurate square.
- Fold over a narrow hem on the tablecloth and machine them using a zig-zag stitch. As written by The Editors of Creative Publishing International(2005) (Authors and Editors of “Singer: The Complete Photo Guide To Sewing 1100 Full-Color How-To Photos”) for the fastest hem finish, use an overlock machine to satin stitch the edges or to make a rolled hem. On a conventional machine, apply bias binding or use a hemming foot to sew a narrow hem.
- Pin the lace trimming around the edges of the tablecloth and top stitch in a matching thread.
- Use a straight stitch and pay special attention to folding in the trimming ends, otherwise they could fray.
Once done with the tablecloth, fold it and keep it aside and now make your own napkin with the remaining piece of fabric.
How to Make a Table Napkin Step-by-Step
After cutting a square tablecloth, use the remaining cloth in making table napkin. How to make napkins is explained below:
- Divide the remaining fabric into six 25 cm squares.
- Fold over a narrow hem of each square piece machine them using zig-zag stitch.
Sit back and revel in this tablecloth and napkins made from simple squares of cloth, cut to shape and fitted with a trimming in a contrasting colour. Isn’t the blue fabric reminiscent of the clear blue Provence skies…? So, what are you waiting for? Make your own tablecloths. Give it a try and let us know how your DIY tablecloth project went.
For more DIY projects check the given articles below:
DIY Project… A Shaker Style Peg Rail
Innovative DIY Laptop Stands to Ease Your Work From Home!
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Author Bio
Huta Raval – An English Literature and Journalism Topper, Huta Raval has graduated from the L D Arts College, Ahmedabad. Post serving for 23 years in the NBFC and Public Library Sectors her desire for ‘writing the unwritten’ brought her to the creative field of content writing. Her clientele comprises of NGOs, Blogging Platforms, Newspapers, Academic Institutions, et al.
