Sewing Napkins

When Shirley and I get together we always have some project that we want to do. We laugh about her keeping all of us busy with various things, but we love all that we do with her. She just doesn't like to sit and do nothing. Over the last year she has made cloth napkins for family members and friends as gifts and so I thought it would be a good idea to make some cloth napkins when she came since they would be here a whole week.

I have a friend that has apple decorations in her kitchen and dining area. I asked Shirley to see if she could find some apple material for us to make some napkins for Cindy (lives in Goulais River, Ont.) She found the material and brought it. She actually found two different prints of apples and brought them both, plus she also found a piece of material that had fall leaves on it that would make beautiful napkins.

Shirley got us organized. She cut the material to the proper size, Bobbie and Virginia pressed the edges of the material and then I did the sewing. We didn't do it all in one day, but spread it out over three days, I think. There were 14 napkins of each of the apple material and 12 napkins of the leaves. The leave napkins Shirley gave to Virginia.

One thing that turned out great was that my friend, Cindy, and her husband and son actually were coming for a visit two days after Shirley and the girls left on Friday. I was excited to be able to give her the napkins so soon. Cindy loved the napkins. She and Ron left this morning to go back up north. I'll include a picture of Cindy in this blog.

Another thing Shirley likes to do is bake. We had some bananas that were getting old so she baked some banana bread. The recipe has cream cheese in it and is very delicious.