When setting a festive table, napkin decoration plays an important role. Regular paper ones, bought in a store and laid out near each plate, look boring and uninteresting. Fabric items are elegant and noble, but they get dirty easily and require thorough washing.
“Kill two birds with one stone”: you can decorate the table, giving it an original look, and not spend a lot of money and effort by making a charming napkin holder in the shape of a lotus with your own hands.
Content
Materials and tools for decoration
To start making a flower, you need to prepare the necessary tools and materials.
To work you will need:
- Thick napkins, it is better if they are three-layer and large in format;
- Stationery knife and scissors;
- A nice and thick needle with a large eye;
- Thick threads or floss.
Additional information. A mandatory condition for making a decoration from napkin paper is the availability of green material - for the base. The petal part can be solved in any color scheme - at the discretion of the craftswoman.
How to make a lotus from napkins with your own hands
A lotus flower made of napkins on the table is a smart and attractive element of decoration. It is no coincidence that many home craftswomen want to know how to make a lotus from napkins.
Making a napkin holder will require patience and attention, and you will have to start with acquiring the skill of folding the material for the base. You will need twelve elements. The base will be green.
- They need to be folded diagonally very carefully. After that, both edges are folded towards the middle.
- Turn the product over and fold the corners up. Fold again to form a triangle.
- After all the edges are hidden, we turn the workpiece inside out. We get a kind of shuttle or boat. There should be twelve such parts.
- The prepared elements are pulled together into a flower stand. To do this, each element needs to be pierced with an awl, and then threaded with a needle.
To make the petals, you will also need 12 blanks for each level. To make the napkin holder from napkins lush and beautiful, you need to make at least eight rows.
The petal part is folded in the same way as the leaves of the stand. Each element must be done with extreme care and precision. To "tuck in" all the corners, you can correct them with a stationery knife.
Important! At the base of the flower, the "boats" should be turned upside down, and the petals should be directed upwards.
Without some skill, inserting the petal element into the stand will not be easy. Therefore, it is better to practice before putting the decoration on the table.
To ensure that the structure holds tighter, the work must be done very carefully, adjusting it with a stationery knife, fork or tweezers.
Attention! It is not advisable to use your fingers to adjust the parts: you can crush the components, and the napkin lotus will look sloppy, and the connection will not be strong, and the flower may fall apart.
Each petal should be secured to the “ridges” of the stand that connect the two elements.
After installing the first row, you can move on to the next one. And so on - all eight levels, each of which, moving towards the middle, increasingly "covers" the flower. As a result, the lotus flower from napkins will become a wonderful decoration for the festive table.
Creativity, an extraordinary approach to any business allow you to make original, pleasant things from the simplest ordinary material, which attract attention. One of such original elements is a lotus from napkins, which you can make with your own hands. You can find out how to make it by watching master classes posted on the Internet.
VIDEO: Lotus flower from napkins.
DIY Napkin Lotus – 50 Photos:
