hey my sewers welcome back Lisa here and we have done all sorts of sewing for fashion but you know what we haven't done is sewing for your home that is actually a huge part of the sewing world that we just barely gotten started with and you know it's actually a bit simpler than sewing profession why is that because if you think about it most sewing for your home is rectangular curtains or rectangular bed sheets or rectangular towels or rectangular pretty simple stuff because all you have to do is straight lines and corners which I will explain to you in just a moment we have a few little tutorials prepared for you right now with our home sewing mini course I will show you how to do your own at table linens your own curtains and I've got a bonus for you so first up your basic table linens we're gonna I'm just gonna show you how to do a napkin so we have this napkin and since it's just a scrap of fabric the dimensions don't have to be perfect but I do want it to be a perfect square so I'm going to make sure that my dimensions are 14 by 14 and now as you know everything varies just depending on what it is or where it's from so your table can be any size and your napkins can be any size you know some of them and you can fold up and they're really cool and they're huge they're probably like an entire yard which is three feet by three feet I fold it together we just want this one to be small but I do like working with squares because this is this is a fun fact a lot of origami comes in squares so if you have square napkins more you can make more cool origami shapes when you're throwing dinner parties try that at home alright so we've got our square here and now all you got to do is nope we want our right side down as you can sell this is a bit darker so that's going to be facing the table and then we're just going to fold under every single side just a quarter of an inch and do that twice so that the raw edges are covered up and all we have to do to finish this napkin is top stitch all of those edges so I'm going to fold them under press them so that they stay flat pin them so that they stay in place and then put them under the sewing machine that'll just take a few minutes per napkin so I've got my napkin all pinned up now I'm just gonna place it into the machine whatever my top stitch I always make sure that the right side is up and that's just because I can trust my top stitching more than my bobbin stitching so if the bobbin thread that you can't really see while you sew ever it gets weird or tingly it's gonna be hidden with the final result see typically rule of thumb top stitch with right side up now folks would since we're doing a rectangle I hope you remember how to turn corners if you don't remember here's how to turn your corner it lifts up the presser foot but make sure that the needle is still down in the machine then you just rotate it 90 degrees put that presser foot back down and continue sewing got stuck I'm just gonna help that out a little there we go now this might be a good time for you to add that decorative stitch tier to your linen cuz I know you've been eyeing those settings on your machine I used to have this one machine that had few little tulips and ducks as a decorative stitch and those were always so fun that could be a good stitch to add to any spring napkins but right now I'm just using the nice basic straight stitch because I want it to have a clean finish you so that is your basic napkin good to go I'm just gonna clean it up a little as we always do when we finished sewing and then you can just go ahead and fold that any way you want get ready to entertain those guests you can use the same technique for the whole entire tablecloth or essentially anything where you really like the fabric but you want to seal away that raw edge and then you will have so many things that you can wear and decorate your home with so many people hang their curtains the wrong way and it ends up closing the space now I've taken a few interior design classes myself have a degree in it and let me tell you there is a right way and a wrong way to hang a curtain