If you enjoyed doing the Napkin Corners embroidery collection by Anita Goodesign, you most likely will love their new collection called Corners and Borders.

The collection contains 15 different themes that can be used as ‘corners only’ for napkins or ‘corners combined with side borders’ for table runners and table cloths. The most exciting feature of these designs is how easy it is to get perfect placement. The Anita Goodesign tutorial takes you step-by-step through the process to do this easy technique.

Extract of Directions from Anita Goodesign Tutorial:
1. Hoop a piece of medium weight stabilizer.

2. Stitch the first step of the corner design. This is the placement line for the corner of your fabric.

3. Place the corner of your table cloth or napkin so that it is along the placement line.
4. Tape the fabric in place. I used blue painter’s masking tape.

5. The next step will secure the fabric to the stabilizer.
6. The following steps will vary depending on the design you are doing and the number of thread color changes.

7. When the corner design is finished, remove the tape.
8. Remove as much stabilizer as possible without disturbing the basting stitch.
9. If you are doing a napkin corner, then you are finished and you can remove the basting stitch and all the stabilizer. If you doing a tablecloth corner you are ready to add a border.
10. Hoop a piece of medium weight stabilizer.

11. The placement line will be L shaped.

12. Line up the extension line sewn on the corner of the fabric with the upright line in the placement stitch on the stabilizer and the edge of the tablecloth with the long placement line on the stabilizer.
13. Tape the fabric to hold it in place.

14. The next stitching step will secure the fabric to the stabilizer. The basting lines should line up with each other as close as possible. If they don’t, remove the basting stitch and reposition the fabric. (If your embroidery machine has a scan feature, it is even easier to get perfect placement.)
15. The following thread color changes will vary depending on the design you are stitching.

16. Remove as much stabilizer as possible without disturbing the basting stitch.
17. Repeat this process again for the border design on the other side of the corner.
18. Remove basting stitches and stabilizer. Repeat the same technique for the other corners of the tablecloth.