Napkins, Little Napkins

As you are about to see, I'm not the best sewer.

I love to sew, especially when all I have to do is, well, sew. I hate patterns and ironing, so I seek out projects that require neither. This project technically called for ironing, but I conveniently skipped over that step, and it turned out fine.

Anyway, I'm home alone tonight (Ike is working on the house) and after cooking some homemade tomato soup and pear cobbler for dinner tomorrow night (aren't you proud of me for not doing this post on food!!) while watching "Halloween" (I mentioned I was home alone right? Oh, and I've been reading Stephen King's "Carrie" all day!). Well, by the time "Halloween" ended and the soup had simmered, I decided to tackle this project....I'm making my own napkins.

Ike and I try to be as environmentally friendly as we can, recycling, not using a dryer (we hang our clothes to dry year round), reusing what we can (paper, zip lock bags, etc), trying to use the A/C and heater as little as possible, you get the point. So, when I saw a DIY project on how to make napkins out of old sheets and pillowcases I was super jazzed.

So, I got on Etsy.com, found a ton of sheet scraps, ordered them and tonight I put my (lacking) sewing skills to the test.

Ike has this great old sewing machine that belonged to his grandmother (mine is in storage, along with about everything I own expect my couch and clothes and a few odds and ends). I managed to figure it out, and after many broken threads (and Wilco & Co on Pandora as my soundtrack), this is what I came up with....

.....Tiny napkins (don't they look more like coasters?!). I think they are really cute (pay no attention to the crooked seams!), but I think I might need to rip apart some more sheets and make napkins (BIGGER napkins) that we can use with a little bit more ease.

So, when I invite you over to the new house for a dinner party, please be patient with my tiny, tiny napkins!