I have had this set of a dozen plain khaki napkins for years. Decades, probably. I bought them because they were on clearance and I thought I could embroider them with a dozen different, but thematically coordinating designs. I never could come up with such… until now.
Numbers! Not just 1 thru 12, even though I do love a numbered or labeled thing.
You see I had a road trip coming up where I thought I might want a way to keep my hands busy when it was my turn in the passenger seat and also in hotels. I did get about 3/5 of these done on that trip and the rest sitting on the sofa of an evening with streaming video.
So I picked numbers that are meaningful or enjoyable to us in some manner, including some dates. 11 of them are done in split stitch which was easy to do on the road, worked well for filling and curves, and looks pretty tidy on the back. I stuck to my guns on not bridging, too.
The 12th is done in back stitch, because the split stitch was giving me trouble. This is the ISBN for TheMisterT’s Audible Original, In Memory of the Girl in Green.
The back is also pretty tidy, all things considered, and I made myself not bridge here, even though it was a a slight pain.
I haven’t washed out the water soluble pen that I used to trace the numbers onto the napkins using a light table. I made a jpeg using Photoshop and various fonts to make the patterns.
While I initially thought of going with something colorful, but I couldn’t settle on anything from my stashed floss option. Then I realized that the khaki was a nice compliment to our new deck furniture, so the dark grey in my stash would tie them together even more. And my next big project is making a dining table and retrofitting out patio dining chairs for the deck I built last year. Now we have napkins especially for al fresco dining! I did have to buy a couple more skeins of the floss, but used almost all of it.
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