Sew Our Absolute Easiest Reversible Summer Napkin Set with Just Two Yards of Fabric
Sew four different coordinating 16″ No-Hassle Dinner Napkins with just two yards of Fabric! Wait! What? “Four different napkins” from “two yards of fabric?” You may be thinking, “how’d they do that?” We’ll share our secret sewing tips in today’s tutorial. Plus our Semi-Annual Stock Up and Clearance SALE ends Sunday at ShopNZP.com!
No-Hassle Kitchen Collection Pattern Available at ShopNZP.com
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!
Then, head over to ShopNZP.com and purchase our exclusive No-Hassle Napkins Bundle Boxes! The No-Hassle Napkins Bundle Boxes feature Wildflower Boutique Fabrics by Riley Blake Designs – 1/2 yd. Pellon Fleece Batting, and our No-Hassle Kitchen Collection Pattern – with Classic Timesaving Tips by Nancy Zieman. The No-Hassle Napkins Bundle Boxes includes everything you’ll need to make four different coordinating napkins PLUS a coordinating table topper!
16″ No-Hassle Dinner Napkin Sewing Tutorial
16″ No-Hassle Dinner Napkin Tools & Supplies
- Exclusive No-Hassle Napkins Bundle Box – Pattern included
- 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
- 1/2″ Sewer’s Fix it Tape
- Clover’s Blue Pen Style Chaco Liner
- Clover’s Hot Hemmer
- Clover’s 1/4″ Fusible Web Tape
Pre-shrink two yards of coordinating fabrics by steaming and pressing, and steaming and pressing a second time, and then spray press and starch fabric with June Tailor’s Quilter’s Starch Savvy — press and starch, press and starch.
- Cut four 18″ x 18″ Wildflower Boutique Vine – Yellow fabric squares for the napkin back/mitered corner borders.
- Cut four 16″ x 16″ inner napkin fabric squares from Wildflower Boutique Green Fat Quarter Panel.
Sewing Secret REVEALED! We’re making “four different napkins” from “two yards of fabric” with the Wildflower Boutique Green Fat Quarter Panel. One yard, one panel, of our Wildflower Boutique Fat Quarter Panel is printed with four different “fat quarter” fabrics!
- 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 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 Sewers Fix It Tape.
- Fold outer napkin right sides together, meeting tape edges.
- Stitch along outer edge of Sewers Fix It Tape using a Schmetz Universal Needle, Size 80 or 90.
- Cut away excess seam allowance. Remove Sewers Fix It Tape.
- Using Clover’s Point 2 Point Tuner, turn corners right side out.
- 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″ Dinner Napkins.
Customize Your No-Hassle Napkin Color Palette:
Green & Yellow Wildflower Boutique Fat Quarter Panel
Red & Yellow Wildflower Boutique
16″ No-Hassle Dinner Napkin Sewing Tutorial
16″ No-Hassle Dinner Napkin Tools & Supplies
- Exclusive No-Hassle Napkins Bundle Box – Pattern included
- 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
- 1/2″ Sewer’s Fix it Tape
- Clover’s Blue Pen Style Chaco Liner
- Clover’s Hot Hemmer
- Clover’s 1/4″ Fusible Web Tape
NEW! Fall Barn Quilts Fabrics now20% Off through Aug. 9 at ShopNZP.com
If you’re traveling through the Wisconsin countryside this summer, make plans to visit the The Nancy Had a Notion History Exhibit! The exhibit will be on display on the 2nd floor of The Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio–Now easily accessible by our new elevator, Monday through Saturday this summer!
Beat the heat and join us in the air conditioned Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio Classroom for our NEW! Fall Leaves Machine Embroidery Class next week with Denise Abel, and our Quilting Group–meets the second Thursday of each month–at The Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio! Sign Up, Today at ShopNZP.com!
Happy Sewing!
Team Nancy Zieman
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