Today, the editor of the production department will share with you a tutorial on hand-making fabric placemats. The fabric used in this tutorial is the simplest gray plaid system, which is a rustic and literary pastoral style placemat. If you feel that the visual effect is too bland and plain, you can choose a more colorful color according to your own preferences.
Handmade fabric placemat tutorial
- Prepare two pieces of fabric: overlap the front side fabric and the back side fabric. The back side fabric is slightly wider than the front side fabric by 1.5 cm to 1.8 cm.
- Aligning with the front, fold the edge of the fabric on the back.
- Make a triangle with the corners like the picture.
- Cut off the extra fabric.
- Fold and sew.
- The other three corners are made in the same way.
- Use a sewing machine to sew all sides (zigzag stitching). When sewing, turn the corner, using the sewing machines presser foot, change the direction 90 degrees, lower the presser foot and sew again.
- The back looks like this. The fabric placemats necessary for eating Western food are handmade.
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