Classic Table Linens: Mastering Miters

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Turn a stunning corner in your sewing as you create tasteful table linens with professional-quality details and crisply mitered corners!

Hemstitched Napkins

Meet your instructor, interior designer and renowned sewist Linda Lee, as you discover the wide range of techniques and projects you’ll make throughout the class. Linda explains what a miter is and how it can provide a welcoming aesthetic in your table decor. Next, she shows you how to make a napkin, adding a hem-stitched detail.

Ribbon Frame Placemat

Dive into your next project: a clean-finished, lined placemat. Linda helps you select fabric and interline the placemat, demonstrating hand-sewing techniques that sewists of all experience levels will love. Next, you’ll apply a gorgeous ribbon frame with neatly mitered corners.

Table Runner: Assembly

Start your third project: a beautiful pointed table runner that incorporates several angled miters. Learn how to cut and angle the runner’s ends, insert flat piping into a seam to add definition, and add decorative bands that add a lovely colorful contrast to the runner.

Table Runner: Miters & Hemming

Cast your fears of unique miters aside as Linda shares easy tips for creating 45-degree angles and other miters that don’t meet at a typical 90-degree angle. You’ll be amazed that you won’t need math to create them! Next, apply Linda’s methods for using templates to achieve double-fold hems, finishing the edges and completing your runner.

Table Topper

Construct a square or rectangular table topper with a wide binding using Linda’s professional tips to guide you. Learn how to work with a binding that’s wider than the seam allowance and cleverly hide seams within the miters for a crisp finish. Linda shares the best ways to calculate the yardage you’ll need and offers additional troubleshooting tips for cutting, sewing and pressing.

Paneled Tablecloth: Figuring Cuts

Put your new mitering skills to work as you start the construction of a round tablecloth with side panels that offer a sophisticated pop of contrasting trim. Linda shows you how to successfully measure your table and calculate the yardage, select the best fabric for your project, and prepare the binding strips that will be sewn around the edges of the panels.

Paneled Tablecloth: Construction

Construct the tablecloth you started in Lesson 6, applying Linda’s expert sewing and pressing methods to create a professional-level project. Learn how to attach the binding, create beautiful mitered corners on your sewing machine and attach the panels to the round top of the tablecloth. You’ll leave the class with the ability to hand- or machine-sew miters on any project you can dream up!