Beaded Christmas Napkin Rings
| Materials needed |
- A 20"(50 cm) square piece of white cotton.
- A needle.
- A spool of thread.
- A piece of white linen (dimensions: 3" x 7").
- A piece of interfacing
(dimensions: 1¾" x 6").
- Metallic red beads - 27, medium-sized.
- Gold beads - 27, small-sized.
- Tracing paper.
- Stencil cardboard/plastic.
- Stencil brush.
- Green fabric stencil paint.
- Gold fabric stencil paint.
- Washable ink pen.
- Stencil template (provided here).
- Craft knife.
- A heated iron.
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| How to make |
- Turn over the white cotton square with right sides facing. Fold the piece diagonally in the middle to form a right-angled triangle.
- Stitch a seam at a right-angle to the fold 1" (2.5 cm) from the end to ¼" (5 mm) to the raw edge.
- Trim off the corner triangle. Do the same with the other three corners.
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- Turn the right side of the napkin out. Press the corners with a heated iron.
- Turn each edge ¼" under and slip-stitch all the way around.
- Iron the interfacing onto the white linen strip. Trim linen to ½" around the interfacing.
- Stitch the raw edges in a zig-zag fashion to keep them from fraying.
- Turn over the two long edges, slip-stich to keep in position and press.
- Beginning at one long edge of the fabric, push the needle ½" into the edge. Fix a red and a gold bead with a thread.
- Continue the process along the edges of the ring, weaving the beads ½" apart.
- Trace the stencil template design onto the stencil cardboard. Cut the design out with a craft knife.
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- Make two stencils, one for the ribbons and another for the bows.
- Place the bell stencil near the bottom of the napkin ring. Coat with gold stencil paint.
- Place the ribbon stencil on the napkin ring. Coat with green stencil paint.
- Using gold paint, provide a fine gold outline to the ribbons. Let dry for sometime.
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- When the ribbons have dried, slip-stitch the short ends together to form the ring.
- Repeat the stencil process on another corner of the napkin and add beads as shown in the diagram alongside.
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