If I had my druthers, I’d be making us cloth napkins all the dang time. Soooo, several years ago, I cut myself off from purchasing fabric for napkins and let us get by with our hoard of existing cloth napkins. Ahem. Well, a lot of them were finally were just too worn to feel good about setting the table with, especially for guests. YEY! So I set about trying really hard to make a bunch of unmatching, double-sided napkins to burn through some stash, use favorite prints, etc.
For a total of 19 “scrapkins”! I think I like reserving “Scrap Naps” for the sets with (mostly) one side in common. I kind of like that the total was an odd number, too. It’s scrappier that way!
They’re all about 8.75" square, which is a little smaller than I truly like, but… I have a 9.5" square acrylic ruler that makes it super fast and easy to cut a lot of these quickly. And it means I could use smaller remnants from projects - particularly what is left from cutting boxer shorts for TheMisterT, of which I make A LOT.
Thank you! I love that cat print, too! I used the blue for pillowcases and then picked up the orange on clearance for boxers several months later. It’s going to be fun to have special Halloween-y napkins for the season.
Such fun prints! Is it quilting cotton? I think I’ve always had in my head that cloth napkins needed to be linen or some kind of particularly absorbent cotton? (Definitely doubting it as I type it, but I must have gotten the idea from somewhere…)
@fishstix43 You know, I think I had the idea that they had to be the heavier cotton of a restaurant cloth napkin, too, until I didn’t. But yes, these are quilting cotton as are many of the other napkins I have made over the year and we’ve never had an issue with absorbency. I do imagine that they get a little more so after a few washes. I will add that I’ve always used them in adult-only households, so maybe with younger kids they would be less suitable?
@AIMR As I age, I am realizing the truth of having only one life and I like too many things to commit to just one print for napkins! I mean, I’m not all willy nilly on big things, like our sectional, but I am putting whatever throw pillow strikes my fancy on it!
