Just a quick little tutorial and then back to packing. I got this idea from a very dear friend Andy. I was at his house for a super fun farming, permaculture, hippie sleep over last winter and at dinner time I found a basket of these in his dining room.
His napkins caught my eye because he had used the same exact bed sheet design that I had on my bed growing up. Yep, my momma kept one set of bed sheets per bed. On laundry day, she stripped the bed, washed, hung them on the line and your sheets were back on your bed by bedtime. I do the same exact thing which has helped out since we have no linen closet to speak of.
Anyhoo, back to Andy’s sleepover, I picked up a napkin and smiled. So simple and smart, just like my friend Andy. They were just simple squares of fabric ripped from this one vintage bed sheet. I filed it in my mental “must make” file and it stayed there until this weekend when I felt we needed a pick me up in the napkin section of our life. I remembered that flowery bedsheet I had folded away for something like this. It is super old and oh so very soft and absolutely perfect for napkins.
You can make a few dozen from one top sheet and in 15 minutes that are folded in your napkin basket because all you do is snip a little cut in the edge and rip a whole strip from the sheet. Then just snip and rip the strip into smaller napkin sized squares. What takes the longest time in this project is pulling the hanging threads from the side which is quite fun and not very time consuming. When you wash them the first time, you will probably get a few more strings but no biggie. Simple and inexpensive, so now you have another use for that bed sheet you have been saving in your stash.
Thanks Andy!
