No-Hassle Easter Napkins Sewing Tutorial

Sew four different coordinating 16″ Easter Napkins with one yard each of two coordinating fabrics, four half yard cuts, or eight fat quarters! We’re making our Easter napkins with Spring Garden Gnomes Fabric by Andi Metz for Benartex Fabrics!

Make Team NZP’s No-Hassle Kitchen Collection sewing projects for your home. The sewing is streamlined with our easiest-ever sewing steps, and simple pattern shapes made from rectangles and squares. Our reversible napkins feature Nancy Zieman’s signature mitered corners!

Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 103: No-Hassle Napkins

Watch Sisters Program 103: No-Hassle Napkins video, with Stitch it! Sisters Deanna Springer and Dana Casey, and learn step-by-step fabric cutting and sewing techniques for making NZP’s No-Hassle Napkins. Plus Classic Timesaving Mitering Tips by Nancy Zieman!

16″ No-Hassle Easter Napkin Sewing Tutorial

16″ No-Hassle Easter Napkin Tools & Supplies

• Spring Garden Gnomes Fabric or Fat Quarter Pack by Andi Metz for Benartex Fabrics
• Exclusive No-Hassle Kitchen Collection Pattern
• I Sew For Fun Heart Shaped Straight Pins
• Clover’s Pin ‘n Stow Magnetic Wrist Pin Cushion and/or I Sew For Fun Heart-Shaped Magnetic Covered Pin Caddy
• Clover’s 7-3/4″ Bordeaux Ultimate Shears
• I Sew For Fun Sew Safe Presser Foot or 1/4″ Quilting Presser Foot
• Quilter’s Starch Savvy
• Clover’s Rotary Cutter and Mat, & Ruler
• Schmetz Universal Needle
• Clover’s I Sew For Fun Point 2 Point Turner
• 3/4″ OESD Expert Embroidery Tape Tear Away
• Pen Style Chaco Liner or Frixion Marking Pen
• Clover’s NEW! Hot Hemmer Square
• 1/4″ Fusible Web Tape
  

• Cut two 18″ x 18″ from  Spring Garden Gnomes Easter Eggs – Lilac & Yellow fabric squares for the napkin back/mitered corner borders.
• Cut two 16″ x 16″ inner napkin fabric squares from each Spring Garden Gnomes Heart Trellis – Green & Aqua.

• Press Clover’s 1/4″ Fusible Tape to wrong side of all four edges of outer fabric, only.

• Remove paper backing, and press under 1/4″ around all four napkin edges.

• Using a Frixion Marking Pen or Clover’s Chaco Liner and Seams Right, place a mark 1″ in from corner – along top, and along side. Repeat on all four corners.

• Connect 1″ markings with OESD Expert Embroidery Tape Tear Away.

• Fold outer napkin right sides together, meeting tape edges.

• Stitch along outer edge of  Tape using a Schmetz Universal Needle, Size 80 or 90.

• Cut away excess seam allowance. Remove Tape.

• Using Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner, turn corners right side out.

• With Clover’s Hot Hemmer Square, press over 1/2″ hem around all napkin edges.

• Insert inner fabric under mitered corner borders, wrong sides together, and pin.

• Topstitch outer fabric near inner edge.

• Watch Stitch it! Sisters Program 103: No-Hassle Napkins video, and repeat steps above and create four coordinating 16″ Easter Napkins.

Register Today for our 2023 Sew•Quilt•Create Weekend Event at ShopNZP.com.

Announcing our spring SEW•QUILT•CREATE Weekend Events at Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, May 18-20, 2023!

Plan your visit! Make memories and create a new tradition while engaging in our annual SEW•QUILT•CREATE Weekend Events! Join our Seminars by Sewlebrity Presenters, unwind at our entertaining Evening Events, see new product demos by Brand Ambassadors, plus shopping, and prize drawing giveaways. Learn about our NEW! VIP Seminar Pass, view and/or print the 2023 Sew•Quilt•Create Weekend Event Brochure PDF, and Register Today at ShopNZP.com.

See the Nancy Zieman Community Mosaic Mural, and visit The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show 100 Years of Art Deco Quilt Exhibit at the DCCA!

View and/or print our Downtown Fine Arts District Area Map with Event Locations, Restaurants, and Lodging in the Beaver Dam

Evening Events – LIVE IN PERSON

Film Screening of Nancy Zieman: Extraordinary Grace Film
with PBS Wisconsin
Thursday. May 18 • 6pm-7:30pm
Join us, along with family, friends and special guests for a Film Screening of PBS Wisconsin documentary, Nancy Zieman: Extraordinary Grace.

Celebrating 40 Years of Sewing With Nancy® with the Stitch it! Sisters®
Friday. May 19 • 6pm-7:30pm
Join the creative women behind the Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio to celebrate 40 years of Sewing With Nancy®.

Seminars- LIVE IN PERSON
Choose from three-days of Lecture-Demos featuring Sewing, Quilting, and Machine Embroidery by Sewlebrities Mary Mulari, Lorraine Torrence, Judy Gauthier, Lauri Valle, and Deanna Springer. NEW! VIP Seminar Pass! Purchase a NEW! VIP Seminar Pass and receive all-access admission to every seminar for all three event days, plus receive a VIP Badge with Lanyard, and more! 

Sit & Sew Classes – LIVE IN PERSON
Sit & Sew on a BERNINA L860 Serger, L890 Serger, and the NEW! Special Edition Kaffe Fassett BERNINA B770 QE Sewing & Embroidery Machine and learn new techniques while sewing a project. Visit the BERNINA Booth for Special Event SALES and sign up for the FREE! Make-it! Take-it! Seating is limited.

Vendor Mall – LIVE IN PERSON
Visit the Vendor Mall and learn about the latest tools for sewing, quilting, and creating from our industry’s best Brand Ambassadors!

Join us May 18-20 for our  SEW•QUILT•CREATE Weekend Event at the Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio featuring Sewing Seminars, Sit & Sew Workshops, Make-it! Take-it!, Sewlebrity Presenters, Brand Ambassadors, Evening Events, Meet the Stitch it Sisters, shop our exclusive Special Event SALES, Sign up for the Event Prize Drawings for a chance to to win prizes from BERNINA, bernette, LauraStar, Clover, June Tailor, OESD, Benartex, Schmetz Needles, and more – including a bernette b05 Academy Sewing Machine!

Register by May 8 and save $2 per Seminar, Sit & Sew, & Evening Event. 

Seminars are $10-$20 ea. in advance ($12-$22 on-site), Sit & Sew Workshops are $59 ea. ($61 on-site), Evening Events are $20 ea. ($22 on-site). Seating is limited. Register online at ShopNZP.com.

SAVE $5*—Register online at ShopNZP.com and the registration fee is waived.
*A $5 registration fee will be added to each mail and phone registration.

Admission fee not required for Vendor Mall, Vendor Demos, Make it Take-it, or for shopping at the Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio.

Note: Live In-Person Events are located at the Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio and BDACT Beaver Dam Area Community Theater in downtown Beaver Dam WI. 

Event Hours: Thurs. May 18–Fri. May 19, 9am-5pm • Sat. May 20, 9am-4pm

NANCY ZIEMAN SEWING STUDIO
120 FRONT STREET • BEAVER DAM, WI 53916 [email protected] • ShopNZP.com

Happy Sewing!

Team Nancy Zieman

Nancy Zieman Productions. LLC.

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