To add elegance and environmental savvy to every meal, ditch your paper napkins in favor of pretty cloth napkins.
Ideal Bite has some resources for cloth napkins, or you can always
make your own.
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Over the weekend, I made a slightly more complicated version of our
DIY napkins, riffing on a pattern I adapted from
The Purl Bee. My sewing style is a little more fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants when it comes to more straight-forward sewing projects. For instance, I didn't pin anything on the project.
Tired of buying paper towels every week. Sick of all the extra paper waste you're generating. With some very basic sewing skills you can make a bunch of homemade cloth napkins out of extra sheets, bandannas, or other random fabric you have lying around.
Even some of my more grown-up friends are still using paper napkins (or — gasp — paper towels) for everyday dining. If you're among them, it's time to upgrade to some real table linens, which are both more sophisticated and better for the environment.
For weeknight dinners, don't worry about buying anything fancy.
