Tulip Placemats & Napkins
Easter Craft Projects - Tulip Placemats and Napkins
Equipment: Paper for patterns; ruler; pencil; scissors; straight pins; zigzag sewing machine.
Materials: Medium-weight cotton fabric, 36" wide, 1/3 yd. for each place mat in colors illustrated or desired; 12 1/2" square for each napkin (in matching or contrasting color); large and small pieces for designs. Fusible web for bonding, 11" x 15" for each. sewing thread to match or contrast with fabric sewn.
Directions: Enlarge patterns below by copying on paper ruled in 1" squares; complete half-pattern indicated by long dash line. Short dash lines indicate where pieces are overlapped. Heavy lines on pattern indicate cutting outlines. Dotted lines indicate lines, in addition to outlines, which are to be satin stitched. Finer lines indicate lines of the design to be plain stitched on machine.
For each place mat, cut two pieces of fabric and one of bonding material, each 11" x 15". Place the fabric together, wrong sides facing, with bonding material between. Following directions that come with bonding material, bond the two pieces of fabric together. Zigzag-stitch edges of place mat. To make stitching easier and edges neater, stitch around the edge twice with stitching spaced a little instead of close stitching once. For napkin, make 1/2" hem all around 12 1/2" square.
Cut two of each design piece of fabric and one of bonding material; bond together as for place mat. Pin design pieces on place mat and napkins; using closely worked zigzag stitch, satin-stitch around edges and along dotted lines to secure to place mat or napkin. plain stitch along finer lines as indicated.
Note: Before stitching Tulip to place mat, stitch top edge between X's then leave this edge unstitched on place mat to make pocket for napkin; fold napkin onto pocket as shown in photo above.
