No-Sew Felt Christmas Napkin Rings for your Holiday Table
No-sew Felt Christmas Napkin Rings are the perfect finishing touch for your holiday table. Great activity for kids and family to do together while they wait for dinner!
Servings: 4 napkin rings
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Good Scissors
Ingredients
- Felt in red and green for poinsettia napkin rings (or the felt colors of your choice)
- Free pattern for No-Sew Felt Flower Napkin Rings (for poinsettia flower or a Rose/flower)
- Good scissors
- Christmas napkins
Instructions
- I’ve created a free template for you that has a pattern for a poinsettia as well as a regular flower. That means you could use these for spring or other times of the year too. Print off the free pattern that I’ve hand drawn just for you for these no sew felt Christmas napkin rings. You can find it at this link: No-Sew Felt Christmas Napkin Rings Free Pattern.Print off a copy and cut it out. Be sure to use the outside solid lines for the poinsettia flower napkin ring. The dotted lines are for a flower with more rounded petals like a rose.
- Use that as your pattern and draw around it to make as many of the napkin rings as you will need to set your table. You may want to cut the pattern out of card stock to make it have a little bit more stability for drawing around. I would use a ballpoint pen to do the tracing. You will be cutting one part out of green felt and if you’re making poinsettias, you will be cutting two parts out of red felt. If you choose to make the flower two tones, you will cut the long piece out of the lighter of your two colors. That will become the ring that goes around the napkin and the center of the flower.
- There are two pieces that have slits in the center. Carefully fold your felt fabric and cut that slit in it after you have cut it out of your felt. Cut the slit in the bottom piece of petal felt first. Then lay the second petal piece on top of that and cut the second slit so that the petals of the second top petals piece don’t lie exactly the same direction as the bottom ones. The petals of the second piece should fall in between the petals of the first piece. So you can see the end of the petals on both pieces. It will look a lot nicer that way. When you have your pieces cut out, you’ll take one of each of the three pieces and lay them in front of you on the table.Stack the top petal piece over the lower petal piece so the slits align.
- Take the long piece and use the knobs at the end of it to slide up and through the two slits in the petals. This will hold the napkin ring together and form the ring for the napkin fits through! An amazing minimalist ring construction- ha! You just repeat that until you are done with all of your napkin rings.
- Finally, roll up your paper napkins, cloth napkins, or linen napkins in a smaller size than the felt napkin ring and slip it through the ring. The napkin will kind of slide open to fit the size of the ring.
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Notes
Tip: Check the holiday aisle of your favorite stores for pretty holiday napkins in patterns and colors that match the poinsettia napkin rings.