Decorate your holiday table with appropriately shaped napkins. Most people will recognize the shape, but depending on your fabric selections, some may wonder “what were you thinking when you picked those fabrics?”

Materials:
– ½ yard of 2 different fabrics – will make 2 napkins
– template stock – poster board, cardboard, or heavy paper

Instructions:
1. Create a circular template by cutting a 17” diameter circle from the template material.
2. Place right-sides of the two fabrics together and pin.
3. Trace around the circle template with a fine-line fabric marker. Be sure to leave at least an inch between the two circles. You don’t have to make continuous lines. Dashed lines are fine. You will be able to make 2 circles on a ½ yard sandwich of 45 inch wide fabric. The black ‘worms’ are weights that hold the pattern down on the fabric stack. You don’t need to have pattern weight ‘worms’, but they are useful if you have some.
4. Do NOT cut on the line you just drew. Separate the circle sandwiches by cutting between them.

5. Sew on the traced outline around each circle. Leave a 2” opening for turning.
6. Trim the seam allowance 1/8” to 1/4” of stitching. Pinking shears work great for this.
7. Turn right-side out and press.
8. Edge stitch around the napkin, this will close the opening.
9. Fold the napkin roughly in half with a little of the contrasting fabric showing at the open end.

10. Locate a point on the straight fold that is 5 inches in from the circular edge. Measure along the curve about 3-1/4 inches and fold so the contrasting fabric stripe shows.

Make a reverse fold, aligning the new fold to the ‘loose’ edge.

Continue the alternating folds to make 5 pie-shaped wedges. Adjust the folds if needed to form the the tree shape.