Wednesday, January 18, 2012

How-to: SEW lonchera cloth diapers for waste-free picnic bags

a lunchbox-sized cloth napkin for out and aboutOf all my friends mother with children attending schools, does not know any of them have their children buy school lunch. They say that it is quite expensive, on the one hand and is certainly not nutritionally superior or better tasting brought food from home, and so my friends Pack lunches for their children.

Even my small gang of girls student have their own lunch packages, and although not eat in a cafeteria of the school every day, eat a packaged meals several times a week-breakfast at the public library of one day, lunch in the stream, another day, dinner in the car's road to gymnastics Thursday, etc..

We have been here in CAGW, sew our own cloth napkins dinner for a while (see tutorial diaper Becky DIY fabric for a good example). Really don't need a full-size napkin dinner in your toddler bento box lunch, however. Instead, review how to sew cloth diapers size lonchera which fit very well into my children packed lunches. And, as a bonus, sewing my napkins with a double thickness, so that they have extra absorbency for Trapeado up to spills…not that their children are messy, of course.

cut the fabric out 1/2" larger than the finished dimensionsThe most important (and fun) part of any project of Couture, for me, is the choice of my fabric. If you're looking for your fabric stash, choose two pieces of cotton fabric that are on the square of 9. 5?, but especially with the children and especially picky children, sometimes a special fabric can make all the difference in an eaten lunch and a used napkin. Although the dimensions will work to be slightly different, really to make these two fat quarters Lunchbox cloth napkins, so if you know of a store that sells copies of cotton novelty chopped into quarters fat, then sorry free to seize his son and head in envelope.

Its structure of iron, and then set both pieces outside the table of court, right sides together. If you use two fat quarters, cut all the edges with the rotating cutting tool squaring them, then, cut their fat rooms right in the middle of the length and width, so that it has four identical pairs. Remember, you'll be rectangles and the dimensions will not be 9. 5? square, but it will still be a large and four of them-one will have more and you're good for a week!

If you are using fabric stash, you have more size options and you may want to sew their napkins a custom size to fit perfectly into your bento box, but it seems a 9? square napkin is a good size, larger than a paper napkin but small enough to be manageable for a child.

Cut 1/2 more napkin everywhere that the dimensions finishes, to accommodate hemming and turning.

sew around the perimeter of your cloth napkinWith right sides together, NIP your napkin two pieces around all the way, but use chalk to mark in a length of 3.5 in the middle of a hand that I leave unsewn.

Starting at one end of the 3.5 length, sewing around the entire perimeter of his napkin. Stop when you get around all the way to the other side of that length 3.5.

top stitch the cloth napkinsThe four corners of the napkin of clip and then turn right side exit. Use a gray pencil or a toothpick to put the crisp and pleasant corners.

The napkin of iron which is straight and the hems are nice, double this length 5? bass and iron the wrinkles.

Select a thread that looks good with its fabric and higher stitch all the way around the perimeter of the napkin, that length of 3.5 sewing closed with Haute Couture as you go.

Are they looking at the rubber band in my sewing machine? My seven-year-old daughter is helping me to sew these napkins, and put a rubber band around the sewing machine serves as a guide of cloth to help maintain proper seam allowance.

quilt the cloth napkinNow, I know you don't want to have these napkins, iron, so the last thing you do is you woven a bit, so it won't be all wonky in the washing machine. You can do this simply by above just seams a pair of horizontal and vertical lines through each napkin, but it is also fun to use printing on one side of the napkin as a guide-I had padded this napkin of Tiger-print following the curves of the tiger stripes to the foot of quilting on my sewing machine sewing loops around another napkin mushrooms.

And when you are finished with that, go to eat food!


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