I finally finished the napkin project I started in July! One batch I embroidered already back then. The other batch I intended to decorate with prints. I ordered a nice stamp from Etsy. And then I waited. I think it took over two months for it to arrive by snail mail from somewhere Russia. In September I was busy with other things so I put the stamp away and then more or less forgot about it until now.

Now I realized that it’s time to finish the work if I want them for Christmas and New Year’s dinners. So I finally did the stamping, and then spent the rest of the evening ironing the napkins to fix the paint.

The instructions for the textile paint said to iron the fabric for 5 minutes with the iron set to “cotton”, so that’s what I did. But afterwards the fabric was yellowish where I had ironed it. (You can’t see it here because I took the photo before ironing.)

I can’t use any bleaching agents on these and the textile paint can only be washed in 40°C so I really hope the yellow goes away with just a gentle wash… Otherwise I guess we’ll call it a halo or something. A feature, not a bug.