There are several ways to sew tablecloths, because the corners and side edges of the tissue may be treated with po-differently. In this material we described the traditional and basic way, having mastered that you can sew with your own hands not only festive or everyday tablecloths, but also kitchen napkins, towels and runners with neat corners and edges.
To sew a tablecloth with your own hands you will need:
- Cutting a suitable fabric you need size( from which material it is better to sew a tablecloth in the article “Choosing a tablecloth in 6 steps”; in this master class, the tablecloth was sewn from flax);
- Threads in tone of fabric and decorative finishing;
- Sewing machine;
- Sewing accessories: tailor scissors, ruler, measuring tape, pins, thimble, needle threader, crayon or marker;
- Decor if desired( it can be: sewing, border, fringe, lace, braid, etc.);
- Iron.
Step 1. Calculate the consumption of fabric
- Measure the length and width of the table top;
- Determine the desired length of the overhang of the fabric, that is, the distance from the edge of the table top to the edge of the future tablecloth.
- The fabric overhang can be 20-40 cm or have a floor length. The longer the overhang, the more elegant the tablecloth will turn out, but the more inconvenient it is to use, therefore the length of the overhang is 20-30 cm;
- When determining the length of the overhang, take into account the percentage of shrinkage of the fabric after washing - for cotton linen and burlap, add 10 cm to the desired length of the overhang, for linen, 10-15 cm. You can go the other way - prewash, and then carefully iron the fabric.
- Now take the paper and pen and calculate the fabric consumption using the following simple formula:
- Note that this formula contains a 5 cm hem allowance, and the hem itself will be only 4 cm wide.
Step 2. Cut the fabric
Smooth the fabric,if necessary, then lay it on the work surface, make notes using a ruler and a pencil, and then cut off the excess, the patterns for a simple rectangular or square tablecloth are not needed.
- The best way to chart a cutting line is to pull a thread out of the fabric. To do this, make a small incision in the right place, pull and gently pull the thread, which will be your guideline.
Step 3. Processing the corners
Now we need to arrange the corners so that they look beautiful even from the inside. For this:
- Put the fabric on the table "face" down, bend its edges 1 cm on the wrong side, fix the bends with pins( if necessary, mark out) and iron around the entire perimeter of the fabric.
- Next, in both directions from the corner, we measure segments twice as large as the hemming width you planned( in this master class, the width of the hemming is planned - 4 cm, therefore, a distance of 8 cm is measured from the corner).Then both marks should be connected with a ruler and a pencil.
- Fold the fabric in the corner( with the wrong side out) along so that the marks coincide and fix the place of the fold with pins. Then we scribe a corner by marking.
- Cut off the excess in the corner, leaving only 5 mm of the seam allowance from the seam. Also trim the edge of the remaining allowance at the bend of the diagonals as shown in the photo below. This should be done to ensure that the corner of the tablecloth is twisted smoothly.
- Turning the corner, correct and iron. Next, we process the remaining 3 corners of the tablecloth. This is what you should have.
Step 4. We open the
And finally, we begin to process the sides: ironing the folds of the entire tablecloth, fix them with pins and stitch( on the inside out) on a typewriter or in a hand-made invisible stitch at a distance of 1 mm from the bend.
Step 5. Decorate the tablecloth
If you wish, you can decorate the resulting product with lace, appliqués, fringe, frill and ruffles, and embroider monograms and patterns. All the same article “Choosing a tablecloth in 6 steps” will help you to see beautiful tablecloths with original decor in a different style from Provence to classic and inspired by creativity.
Provence-style tablecloth: a cotton tablecloth decorated with gathered stripes of burlap.
In the next video tutorial you will be able to see not only the complete process of sewing a tablecloth, but also decorating it.
In our master class, we considered only the method of sewing a rectangular or square tablecloth, but how to sew a decoration for a round table? We offer you to familiarize yourself with the video lesson about how you can easily cut the fabric for a round tablecloth without using a pattern and treat its cuts with a bias or adhesive web.
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