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\nIt’s summer and the weather is lovely, and do I use this opportunity to do things in the garden? No, I’m on a crafting spree and the garden is borderline neglected. Some other day.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s summer and the weather is lovely, and do I use this opportunity to do things in the garden? No, I’m on a crafting spree and the garden is borderline neglected. Some other day.<\/p>\n
Next up on the list of “someday” projects: semi-fancy cloth napkins. Every Christmas and New Year’s and other festive opportunity when I cook semi-fancy food and we bring out the linen tablecloths, we have napkin problems.<\/p>\n
Store-bought linen napkins are nice but feel a tad too stiff – formal rather than festive. They’re often too large, more for show than for use. I find them intimidating.<\/p>\n
Plain paper napkins are the opposite – too plain.<\/p>\n
Printed paper napkins, which at first glance look like the perfect compromise, suck in reality. They can look good but most are unusable: the surface is so slick that when you try to actually wipe your mouth (or fingers, if the semi-fancy meal includes finger food) then they don’t absorb anything.<\/p>\n
Today I bought two old linen tablecloths from a second-hand store (Stadsmissionen in Bromma). I’m going to cut them into squares and turn them into napkins. They’ll be homey and invitingly soft and conveniently small.<\/p>\n
In fact now that I look more closely at one of the tablecloths I bought, I see it’s made of two large napkins with a strip of lace in between. Looks like they’re mismatched – I didn’t see that until I took this photo. And they’re huge! Each one will be turned into four napkins of more sensible size.<\/p>\n
This will be the third incarnation for these napkins – from napkin to tablecloth and then to napkin again (but smaller). What shall I call this, then? Re-upcycling? Up-and-down-cycling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s summer and the weather is lovely, and do I use this opportunity to do things in the garden? No, I’m on a crafting spree and the garden is borderline neglected. Some other day. Next up on the list of “someday” projects: semi-fancy cloth napkins. Every Christmas and New Year’s and other festive opportunity when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768,785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13123,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114\/revisions\/13123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}