Home-made cloth napkins

Here's my first project with my recently acquired serger -- dinner napkins. I used three white fabrics that I had left over from other projects, and did a simple rolled edge using the serger, with a blue woolly nylon thread. Making 20 napkins took about 2 or 3 hours.

Here's a checklist for making your own napkins:

* Decide on the size: dinner napkins are typically 16-20 inches square. You can get four 17" or 18" square napkins from one yard of fabric 44" wide.

* If you're using a serger, you will want some Fray Block to secure the serged threads. Be sure to let it dry. (I hung them on a clothes rack and they dried quickly, within about 15 minutes)

* If you don't have a serger, there are other ways to finish the edges. A satin stitch edge is one option, or press the edges under at 1/4" twice, and sew.