Yesterday we interviewed Deborah Moebes about her new sewing book, Stitch by Stitch: Learning to Sew One Project at a Time. Today we’re excited to offer a free PDF project from the book for a Fancy Napkin with Mitered Corners. As Deborah writes in the book, this project will help you make the “neatest, tidiest corners!”
Download the Fancy Napkin with Mitered Corners PDF project today! It gives you a good glimpse into the step-by-step instructions and photos in the book, as well as Deborah’s friendly, clear teaching style.
Remember, you can purchase Stitch by Stitch: Learning to Sew One Project at a Time through this link with a 10% discount for Sew,Mama,Sew! readers (Coupon Code: SEWMAMA10, expires 10/1). You can also comment to win on today’s post or yesterday’s interview for your chance to win one of two copies of Stitch by Stitch!
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Can I just say what a relief to find someone who actually knows what theyre talking about on the internet.
Definitely a great find, since I’m a new sewer.
This is great! I am returning to the little bit of sewing I learnt as a child and I really like the look of this book!
Thank you for the tutorial! As a self-taught sewer who often makes things up as I go along,I like how the book clearly explains and shows how to do basic steps.
Found this just in time to make some Christmas napkins. Saw some great fabric at Spotlight now I have an excuse to buy it!
Thanks
What a well written tutorial. If the rest of the book follows suit, I’m sold. Thanks for the sampling and op to win!
thank you! i can use this technique for another projects with corners…
I love the clear pictures. I’ve been wanting to make some small napkins to pack with lunches.
Great tutorial–love the step by step directions and all the pictures!
Would love the book.
Perhaps in the step-by-step part the red thread is used so we can see the zig zag stitches, and in the final picture a coordinating thread was used?
I think the tutorial is very well done; super pictures, very clear instructions. I’m quite interested in picking up the book, even if we are all a bit perplexed about the last picture not matching what we see above =)
Please enter me! I can use all the help I can get with my sewing skills!
What a great tutorial–I think I definitely want this book!
I have a stack of “scraps” I’ve been wanting to make napkins with… I have this dream of having napkins for every season. Maybe now I’ll get started…?
Like the tutorial, but like others, I was thrown off for a minute by the last pic, which shows the edges double-folded under rather than zig-zagged. How would one do the mitered corners with the folded edge?
Wait!!! I don’t get it. In the last frame, it looks like perhaps the seam was folded under because I don’t see the zig zag at all and there is no rough edge. I’m missing the magic trick for that.
Yep. Definitely would love to own this book now!! It looks perfect for learning a whole lot of stuff that I don’t know about sewing!!
Great tutorial! Thanks!
I loved the tutorial on mitered corners. It finally clicked!
oh, please! I never win anything! Maybe this time???
I love the clear pictures with the instructions — I’d love to have the book and learn more different sewing techniques!
After looking at how the PDF is done, I know I want this book!
Fabric napkins are a wonderful addition to the household and this looks like a great pattern!
so despite my confusion on the lack of exposed edging in the finished product, i’m really interested in reading through this book and making some of the projects.
How did you know I have been putting off making new napkins and that I have been looking for a mitered corner tutorial?! Thank you!
What a great tutorial!
Yay! I would love to make some fancy napkins! Thanks for the free pattern.
I was just looking for a good napkin tutorial, but the ones I was finding didn’t address the corners. This is fantastic! Thank you.
Great tutorial, I was just getting ready to do some napkins for a housewarming gift.
Love this–thanks!
Great tutorial. I think I need to sew some napkins for daily use!
If I may offer an extremely humble and uneducated opinion regarding the different fabrics in the pictures: I think the plain fabric was chosen in the “find the grainline steps” because it may show up better in the photography. It could perhaps be more difficult to demonstrate these steps with a print, so that’s why it was used- for clarity.
I just love mitered edges! Great share – and Thanks for chance to win her book!
This book looks fantastic! Will have to run to Borders to get a copy if I’m not one to the lucky ones! ;P
Ooooh! This book looks so great!!!
I love cloth napkins and will definitely check this out!
Very clear tutorial. Would love to own the book.
Wonderful tut!
I have a friend in mind that this would be a great gift for!!!
Two out of two posts are telling me I have to have this book! I think it was created with me in mind, but in reality I think many of us out in the real world are eager to become better at sewing. We just need a bit of direction. Thanks so much for the clear, detailed directions. I have many napkins ahead of me!
thanks for the pdf- i have a spectrum FQ pack waiting to be made into napkins
Thanks so much for the pattern!!!
I’m with Aditi and Cricket. The last picture (and the first one for that matter) does not match up with the instructions. I would really like to see the instructions for what’s pictured. I’d love to know how to do a mitered corner that’s also a folded hem instead of the zig-zag edge. Maybe I’ll win the book and find out if those instructions are included on a later page.
Thanks for the tutorial. Just what I needed as I keep trying to weed out those paper napkins. Also thanks for the giveaway.
Ah ha! Mitered corners. It all makes sense now.
This is a great little project. I always wanted to have napkins like these, and now I can!
Super cute! Thank you!
Oh, how much fun! I love cloth napkins, and think they’re great gifts for everyone this year!
I’m trying to switch to all cloth napkins and this will help!
thankyou! i have 20 squares of upcycled bed sheet waiting for me to beautify into family napkins. perfect!
I am a novice who is itching for something to sew, and have some fabric just waiting to become napkins– with this wonderfully easy to follow tutorial, I now have no excuse. Thank you!
These are really great instructions. If they make sense to me, anybody will be able to do it!!
Awesome! I want to make napkins now!
I’m intrigued!
Great! Hope I am one of the lucky one’s
I’m impressed by your easy to follow instructions. I love that you include multiple methods. Thanks!
Very nice tutorial. Extremely thorough! Thanks!
thank you so much for the free project! i love cloth napkins, and usually snag them from thrifts, but i’ve been meaning to make a “fancy” set with more modern fabric. now i know exactly how to go about it!
This project is just in time for Christmas – thank you so much for sharing! I’m excited to try mitering corners, I’ve never tried it but I think I’m going to go for it.
Would love to win this book to increase my sewing skills as well as be able to teach my darling daughter to sew.
Nice! Mitering looks scary to a beginner like me, but apparently not so rough! Thanks so much…
This is a great place to start. Maybe for a more advanced sewer this is not a light bulb moment but for me, I never thought of overcasting pattern pieces before I sewed them together. Very well done!
Thanks for sharing a great tutorial. I look forward to seeing your book!
Ooh lovely!
Genevieve
Thanks for the napkin pattern! Can’t wait to get a good look at the book.
I absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on this book!! I’ve been waiting a long time for an instructional with both fun AND inspired projects. Really love the fabrics used! Awesome.
I love the approach taken by this book, thanks for the free pdf!
Love this! I am making napkins and placemats for Christmas and this came just in time!
Great tutorial. Thanks
Wow, that is a really detailed book. I was completely sold until I got to the bottom and the pictured napkins were different from the ones in the tutorial (which had the red zig-zags). I read and re-read the directions, trying to figure out the reason for the discrepancy, until I finally figured that maybe those are the suitable-for-company napkins she refers to and that technique is taught on future pages? If so, then I am very tempted to get a copy. Not just for the napkins, but because I love to learn sewing skills and it seems like she might just have some good ones to share.
Thank you so much! This is such a great tute!
Thank-You I just love the great photography and the feeling that this book is a real teacher!
I love the way this is written. So conversational & easy to understand. I’ll be the book is fabulous!
I love making napkins, but I’ve just never been successful at mitering. I hope this helps.
Thanks for the tutorial. Just what I need!
Thanks for sharing this great tutorial. I love knowing why things are done a certain way or why one way is better than another. This tutorial was done so well that I wasn’t left with any questions. Thanks!!!
Wonderful! Thanks!
Thanks so much for sharing this. This pdf provides the easiest/clearest explanation of mitering I’ve read yet!
Love the napkins!!!
Thanks for the pdf! I’m so excited about the book – it looks awesome!!
omg! i never win anything in my life and with my birthday this friday, i gotta win, right?????
Thank-you for the wonderful tutorial. I love Deborah’s style and would love to own her new book!
I think this is a great book from the sample download I love how it shows you what skills you will acquire from doing the project. I hate sewing books that seem to leave out what details they feel are mundane but her book has nice photos of every single step I’d love to be the winner of a copy of this book
Thanks ~ I see some great Christmas presents for my friends ! Napkins galore!
I would love to win this book! Thanks for the free PDF!
What a great idea! And that book looks awesome.
The book looks great, and thanks for the PDF!
thanks, my household is tissue free as ahile pack i sewed a pile of hankies. I was thinking it was about time to switch to cloth napkins, thanks for the great pdf file!
Thank you for posting the free project. New napkins are in order with the changing season and I think it will be much more satisfying to make my own with the help of Deborah’s PDF. Thanks again!
You can never have too many cloth napkins. Thanks!
can’t wait to try this, thanks so much! p.s. – Deborah is as lovely in person as she is in her interview. you should check out her wonderful shop Whipstitch in Atlanta!
Can’t wait to try this! Our family is really trying to get away from using so many paper products, so this is perfecting timing.
Eureka! It makes total sense! Thanks for the tutorial. I will be doing this.
Thanks for the free project!
I am a sewer at about intermediate level. Deborah’s free PDF is a great refresher even for me. I would have LOVED this project when learning to sew. Great step by step instructions!
Yea! I use cloth napkins everyday!
I love this! Thank you so much! I’ll be doing this project with my daughters, they can make napkin sets as teacher gifts for Christmas.
Funny how the instructions do not actually produce the type of seams shown in the finished item on the last page of the pdf!
Awesome! Thanks for the PDF pattern!
Thank you for the project! Great directions and pictures!
the mitering technique is so easy– didn’t realize it was so simple. now i want to make a bunch of napkins!
great tutorial – thanks so much