Cloth napkins for the feast

"In order to find suitable motifs for my cloth napkins 'Eisvogel', I browsed through magazines, collected varnish pictures and dissected nostalgic postcards, so basically everything can be used that can be color-coded, if it should be colored you have a theme or motto or just a special motive for your festivity to be designed according to? Prima! Then collect some pictures and snippets - everything can be used and reworked to your very own table cloth decoration!

My topic is the Kingfisher. By that I do not mean the bird of the year 2009, but any bird, which is painted in the winter on holly branches and presented with crown. Also, would I decorate my napkins with stamped ice crystals? and the kingfisher is born ...

That's what you need for the cloth napkins:

A colored motif template (very neatly cut out.) If the motif is not to be limited by a frame as in the example, the background must be white!)
Scissors, possibly cutter
Scanner, color printer, PC
transfer film
bright cotton fabric
sewing machine
thread
Iron
baking paper
PRINT Block (soft, from Factis)
Linolbesteck
pen
needle
Ink pad (suitable for textile printing, or paint on a plate, spread thin and pick up with the stamp from there)
possibly sequins, pearls, silver thread
needle

How to make the cloth napkins:

Digitize the design with the scanner, print on the transfer ribbon and cut out. Cut a light cotton fabric to the desired square size (40 x 40 cm per napkin), sew the edges with the sewing machine, narrowly iron and topstitch (of course you also have bought cloth napkins - but they have to be bright!). Determine the place where you want to see the motif later, then iron the fabric smoothly (without steam!) And iron the motif in the appropriate place with the help of baking paper (according to the respective operating instructions of the transfer paper) and allow to cool.

Draw the outline of an ice crystal on the PRINT block with a lead or permanent pencil and cut out with the linoleum cutlery. Make a proof on a piece of fabric to see if everything looks as printed as desired. Then stamp the ice crystals onto the napkin with the bow motif and let it dry (iron gently from the left to fix the color).

Using the sewing machine in freehand technique (or by hand), highlight the crystals with light gray or silver thread by stitching back and forth and sew a star paillette with a pearl in the middle.

Finished is the festive napkin "Kingfisher"! For a very special table cloth decoration I create for each guest a different theme on the same theme on the same fabric and let many Christmas birds tirilieren!

Anja from the Blog Half things work as a clinic chaplain and do her DIY "half things" with all her heart.