When Valentine's Day or Birthday comes around, there is a desire to do something special for a loved one. To make a festive lunch or dinner look truly romantic, you can fold hearts out of napkins. Nicely folded napkins have another advantage. At the start of a cocktail party or lunch, you will have something to talk about with your guests. At the same time, you will teach them this simple and charming art.
You will need
-paper or cloth napkin;
-flat surface;
-iron;
-ironing board.
Easy way to fold a napkin
Take a napkin and place it on a flat surface. Fold it horizontally, joining the bottom edge to the top. If the napkin is fabric, press the fold with an iron. If it is made of paper, carefully smooth the bottom edge with your hand.
Fold the napkin in half and horizontally again. Iron or press firmly on the edge of the fold. This will make a long, narrow rectangle. Fold the napkin in half from right to left. Now lay out the napkin. You will have a vertical fold in the middle.
Using the vertical fold line as a guide, fold the left edge towards the middle so that it is perpendicular to the right edge. You will get a corner at the base of the napkin. Now fold the right side in the same way. The napkin will resemble an inverted "house".
Flip the napkin over. There will be a triangular pocket at the base of the napkin. Fold the top ends of the turrets horizontally so that their edges line up with the top edge of the triangle pocket. Now unfold them. You will mark the fold on each tower. Bend the corner to the left and right downward at each end so that it touches the fold line. Press the corners or iron with an iron. Turn the napkin over. The heart is ready.
Before folding the cloth napkin, iron it thoroughly with an iron.
The best color for a napkin heart is red or pink. Hearts of white, blue, yellow and green colors will also look interesting.
Place a folded heart-shaped napkin in the middle of the plate. On top of it, you can put a wine glass, a small gift, a flower or a card with wishes for Valentine's Day.
The paper napkin is usually small and already folded in four. Before folding the paper napkin, it is better to straighten it.
The tricky way to fold napkins
This method is suitable for cloth napkins. With this addition, the festive table will look like in a restaurant.
If the napkins are large, it is more difficult to fold them so that they hold their shape. A large napkin can be made smaller by folding it into a square first. To do this, each end of the napkin must be folded towards the middle.
Now you can start folding the heart. To get a long rectangle, as in the first example, bend the bottom edge upward, slightly short of the middle of the square. Fold the top edge in the same way. You can now fold the napkin in half, placing the bottom over the top.
After that, you can repeat all the steps from the first example. It is not necessary to use an iron to prevent the top edges of the heart from falling apart. You can simply nest the corners of the turrets inside the triangular pocket. To do this, you must first bend the edges from the inside of the "towers". There will be two more pockets inside each "tower". They can be used to wrap the outer edges of the napkin. Then she will keep her shape and will not straighten.
To keep the hearts made of cloth napkins well, you can make them in advance, a day before the holiday.
