DIY Napkin Ring : 2 easy Tutorials with fabric and yarn

Setting the table for a meal, after you have made those scrumptious dishes, and got your best tableware and cutlery out, is not complete without arranging the napkins attractively.

A napkin ring is a simple, effective and beautiful way to do this – a real time saver. It saves you the trouble of folding the napkins into intricate patterns each time you have guests coming over. The decorative element of your DIY napkin ring will be enough to impress them.

Here are some simple ways to make napkin rings, other than those store-bought ones, in metal, wood, and what-have-you.

How to make Napkin rings

Simple fabric napkin rings

This is a very simple method of making napkin rings.

Cut out a fabric piece and a stiff interfacing piece of this dimension – 5 1/2 inches by 2 inches.

Cut out a strip of fabric 2 inches wide and 5.5 inches and also interfacing for this

Adhere the interfacing to the back of your fabric.

Embellish the fabric the way you want – whatever you do, ensure that there are some stitches or some trim along the long edges of your fabric.

Here I have made some decorative scallop stitches on the edge – with the decorative stitch option on my sewing machine. Most sewing machines have them – but we seldom use them. Now is your time.

Macrame napkin ring

Macrame is all about tying simple knots with threads and it is very easy to make a napkin ring with macramé. You will need a wooden ring and some cotton macramé cord, that is all. And some time

In this project we will use 4 mm single cord and a 5 mm diameter wooden ring.

This napkin ring can be made out of the most basic knots of macrame – Lark’s head stitch, Square knot and Double half hitch knots. If you do not know how to make these knots, go and learn at these pages.

Materials required for making one such napkin ring:

Wooden ring
4 mm thick single macrame cord – 5 Nos. in 70cm length (You can make it with twisted or three ply macramé cord also).
Scissors
Measuring Tape
Comb

Step 1 : First step is to fold each thread or cord into half and attach them to the wooden ring using Lark’s head knot.

Step 2 : Leave the two end cords and tie two square knot with remaining 8 cords.

make square knots with the rest of the thread

Step 3 :Leave three cords each on both ends. Take the four cords in the middle and tie a square knot.

This is your alternate square knot.

Step 4 :Next step is making diagonal half hitch knots from both sides to make a V shape.

Divide the cords into sets of five. From the left hand five cords, take the left extreme end cord and place it diagonally over the remaining four cords.

the left side cord placed diagonally over the other cords

Step 5 :Repeat the double half hitch knots till you complete the fourth cord on the left side.

Step 6 :Now let us make double half hitches with the cords on the right hand side doing the same steps. This makes a V shape.

make half hotch knots from the other side as well

Step 7 :Let us repeat one more set of double half hitches to make a second V.

Step 8 :Now, trim the ends to make all cords equal in length.

Step 9 :Now that our knots are complete and ends are trimmed , it is time to fringe the ends. Use a comb to separate the strands. Be careful not to comb the knots above.

Once they are fringed, give it a final trim with the scissors if necessary.