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hi in this video i'm going to show you
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how to make double-sided fabric napkins
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really professional with a nice little
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top stitch around the edge
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when you fold them they look great
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because you've got the same fabric on
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or how about using two different fabrics
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for a more exciting effect perhaps it
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matches your decor or perhaps it matches
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plates and here's another example of two
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very different fabrics
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dark one and a light one so i'm
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christine of christiescrafts.com and
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this channel is dedicating to crafting
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so let's get started making your fabric
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first thing you're going to need to do
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is choose your fabric and then you're
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going to cut it out the size you want
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now you can make your napkins lots of
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different sizes it's entirely up to you
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i'm going to make mine 16 inches square
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so i'm cutting my fabric out 17 inches
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and using a half inch seam allowance
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you can see i'm using a self-healing mat
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and a rotary cutter to get really good
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squares there's nothing wrong with using
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a ruler and scissors just take your time
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measure accurately and get good squares
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so that they line up well
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and you get the napkins with the
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professional finish you're hoping for
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so as you can see i'm lining up to get
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my 17 inches the other way
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so it's a perfect square and then you
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need to repeat so that you've got two of
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so we're going to sew those together to
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make the double-sided napkins
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as you can see making sure it's lined up
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and get your two squares and that's it
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that's everything you need to cut out
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that's all the fabric you need
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two squares so the next thing you need
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is look at your two squares and make
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sure you're going to show them the right
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as you can see mine has got a pattern so
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there is a right and the wrong way up
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so just check you get the patterns the
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or the opposite way if you want to be
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exciting but just make sure you're
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getting them how you want them
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and then place your two squares together
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line them up so that they're exactly
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matching and then either pin
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or clip them together so just work your
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way around making sure it still lies
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and you're going to end up with a nice
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flat napkin at the end
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once you've got all the way around you
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need to think about the fact that when
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we need to turn this out so we need to
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leave a gap on one side so you want to
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mark that in some way
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i'm going to use the larger clip so it's
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obvious which part i'm going to leave
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you could use your pins in a different
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direction or mark it with a little
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but that gap i am not going to sew so
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then it's over to your sewing machine
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or if you're sewing by hand just set off
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get to one of your markers that you're
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and set off make sure you've got your
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seam allowance set to the right position
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and then sew a little way do a reverse
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so that your stitches don't come undone
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and then set off along that side you'll
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see that i've used the middle of one
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side it's the best place to turn it
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so keep working your way along until you
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get right to the corner
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when you get to the corner make sure
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your needles properly in through the
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and then lift your foot and turn through
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put the foot down and set off again
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and you're going to do that at each
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corner as you come to it
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and then you're just going to work your
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way all the way around
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make sure you keep that seam allowance
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make sure you turn well at each corner
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so you get a nice corner on your napkin
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keep going until you get back round
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to the other marker for the little bit
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just come up to the last corner here
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and then right round to that other
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and sew up to it and then do a little
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so that the stitches don't come undone
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check that gap's wide enough don't make
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it so tight you can't turn your napkin
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through there's no benefit to that
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and then once you're happy and you've
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done your little reverse
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you're going to take it away from the
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and back over to your table
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so before you think about turning it out
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go to each corner in turn
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and clip the corner off this removes
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some of the bulk to give you a better
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be careful to go quite near the stitches
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that you cut the stitches otherwise
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you're going to end up with a hole in
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so just take care do all four
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and then it's time to turn it through so
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you've got your hole there
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just turn it all through you can see i'm
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just pushing it all through
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once you've got it all through it's time
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to think about the corners
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and you're going to want something to
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poke in there that's not too sharp
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but will give you a nice corner i tend
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and you're just going to ease it gently
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into the corner don't be too rough
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because you could rip your stitches
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sometimes rubbing it between your
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fingers also helps it to just flatten
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out and get into that corner
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so repeat that for all your corners
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and then you're going to be ready to
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your napkin before you think about top
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which is also incidentally going to
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close that hole that you left
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you need to press your napkin so i'm
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going to show you why
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you're going to work along each edge and
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you're going to realize that it doesn't
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naturally open up to the seam so you
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just need to keep going and
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pull everything back pull that seam out
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and press it flat and work your way
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around the entire napkin like that so
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straight square edges like you were
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means you'll end up with a more
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professional napkin at the end
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and then give the whole thing a quick
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press and you're ready to sew
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just going to sew a top stitch all the
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so it's back to the machine pick part
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put your foot down and set off we don't
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need to reverse because we're going to
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all the way around and come back to here
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it's up to you how close to the edge you
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do top stitch lots of people have
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different opinions some people do two
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i tend to line mine up with the edge of
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the zipper foot and it
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keeps it nice and easy to keep straight
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as before when you get to the corner
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needle down lift the zipper foot turn it
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zip your foot back down and away you go
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if you want to do two rows that's up to
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you you just repeat this process
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i'm just doing one row of top stitching
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it fastens up that hole i left and it
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gives a nice professional finish
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so when you get back to where you
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started make sure you sew over where you
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started to secure those stitches
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and do a little reverse
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and then that's it your napkin is
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finished you simply press it
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and then it's ready for you to use
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so how about thinking how you're going
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to present your napkins
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what you can do is simply fold them and
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place them on the table
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or how about a bit of napkin folding as
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you can see here there's one
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shaped like an arrowhead and one like a
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and if you look at the videos on the
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screen now they will show you how to do
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both of those and they're really quick
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