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How to Make a Tablecloth With Cutwork

Cutwork tablecloths help you give a special touch to your dinner parties. Make a white tablecloth with a poinsettia pattern for a formal Christmas dinner or one with a pattern of lilies for Easter breakfast. Floral patterns are traditional for cutwork, but it is a style of embroidery that can be made in many patterns. Embroider a harvest gold cloth with a pattern of falling leaves for Thanksgiving, or make a cloth with an abstract pattern that can be used for any occasion.

Things You'll Need

Fabric
Pattern (optional)
Pencil or tracing paper and wheel
Sewing machine
Machine embroidery thread
Small sharp scissors

Instructions

- 1
  Transfer the pattern to the cloth with tracing paper and a tracing wheel or draw it on freehand. To use tracing paper, place the fabric right side up on a hard surface. Place the tracing paper on the fabric with the ink side down. Place the pattern on top of the paper and trace over the lines on the pattern with a tracing wheel.
- 2
  Set the machine to sew a zigzag stitch with a medium width and a short stitch length.
- 3
  Sew along the lines on the fabric.
- 4
  Cut out the excess fabric with small, sharp scissors.

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