Cloth Napkins

Step 3 Ironing the Edges

When deciding how to do the edges of the napkins I had three options.

The first was to just iron the edges over by a quarter of an inch, and then iron them over a second time by a quarter of an inch, then sew a zig zag stitch.

The second was to use a little roll over seam foot for my sewing machine that a friend of mine (Hi Ashcake!) lent me. I tested it, and found it was fiddly, and irritating. More irritating than ironing.

The third option was to get the husband to agree that I needed a serger, and serge the edges.

It turns out the husband was not quite enamored of a new sewing machine quite yet, and the borrowed foot was more irritating than the cat. That leaves me with my first option of ironing. I am still working on the serger, but the husband has to graduate from his university first. I have made a note to try and get rid of that nagging bit of common sense, so as to get a new serger faster.