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DIY Cocktail Napkins

August 30, 2015~ Cocktails, DIY and craft projects

Have you ever gone to cocktail hour at a swanky hotel bar, or at a friend’s place had them hand you some cute linen napkins with tongue-in-cheek stitching or wording? What about an adorable chinoiserie design, or even a monogram? Would you DIY Cocktail Napkins yourself?

image from horchow.com

image from horchow.com

image from anthropology.com

image from anthropology.com

Adorable online boutiques are full of adorable little collections of napkins, but the price tags can be a turn off. If you’re in the market to buy some, Waiting on Martha has the cutest ones by far, otherwise some really cute ones on Etsy can be customized.

I spent a little bit of time at our local fabric store over the weekend and fell in love with some beautiful and colourful trim. But what to use it on?! I couldn’t just line our curtains with it! It was too expensive to buy 20 meters of it (to do 2 sides of the curtains in the dining and siting room). After stumbling across some purple gingham in the bulk fabric section, it hit me – DIY cocktail napkins! I could make them to get exactly what I wanted, I could use the funky trim, and I could save myself a couple of bucks.

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Most cocktail napkins are a 6″ square, and I wanted to add the fun coloured trim along two sides of each napkin. I was having a hard time deciding between blue, yellow/gold, red and purple for the trim, but with purple gingham I decided the blue and yellow/gold would be perfect for continued use into the fall and winter.

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Because the fabric I was using would fray at the ends if left un-hemmed, I started by cutting an 8″ square and then folding in an inch around the entire edge. I then pinned it before sewing it with a machine.

To keep the look common and avoid the fraying, I sewed each side closest to the lip, that way I would have a nice stitch line one inch into the square. See that nice little white stitch?

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Because of the delicate trim, I had to hand sew it but I think it was well worth it. The final product is just what I wanted, and will be put to good use very soon.

Who’s coming for a cocktail this week? I’ve got the bar and the diy cocktail napkins, you have to bring an app!

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  1. swell conditions says

    August 31, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Your napkins look great Ariel, so pretty!!

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    • Ariel says

      September 1, 2015 at 10:13 pm

      Thanks Heather 🙂

      Reply
  2. Sheila Zeller says

    September 1, 2015 at 11:16 am

    I’ll be right over! What a great little tutorial and such a fun idea ~ now, to mix and match a little of Audrey Would!’s barware and we’re all set!! 🙂

    Reply
    • Ariel says

      September 1, 2015 at 10:12 pm

      Thanks Sheila! Drinks are at 6 😉

      Reply

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    October 31, 2016 at 2:48 pm

    […] done cocktail napkins in the past, and you can see those gingham and gold ones // here // but for this month’s challenge I’m going to make them from thrifted napkins and […]

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