10 thoughts on “How To Get Cute Gingham Cloth Napkins for $1”

1. Nancy at

   I have used cloth napkins for years, and made many of them. When my kids were young I changed my tablecloth and napkins for the seasons or holidays. I have a small drop leaf table that uses a 52 inch table cloth. I have even made tablecloths for my table. That was back in the House of Fabric days and they’d have midnight madness sales. That was back in the hayday of my quilt, apron, tablecloth, napkin, doll clothes or anything else I could think of to make.

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   1. Texas Homesteader Post author at

      I don’t typically use a tablecloth, although we have one for special occasions. But cloth napkins are used every day. I can’t imagine how much I’ve save in disposables over the years (decades) Mother Earth thanks me! 🙂 ~TxH~

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2. Pat B. at

   Cloth napkins and dish towels take the place of paper napkins and paper towels but do you have an alternative for toilet paper?

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   1. Texas Homesteader Post author at

      Many use something called ‘family cloth’ which is just dedicated cloth for cleaning themselves after going to the bathroom. Some use it only for urine, others use it for all cleaning. RancherMan & I aren’t there though so I don’t have systems to recommend for storing/cleaning the cloths, etc. ~TxH~

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3. candace Ford at

   Update on the Orca. Not exactly homesteading but important to all of us who care about the environment and all the creatures in it. After swimming 1000 (one THOUSAND) miles and losing weight and falling behind the rest of the pod, which now numbers only 75, she let the dead baby go. She is ok and eating and with her group now. This is the 3rd baby she has lost and the scientists just think she was grieving. Isn’t that amazing and sad to realize that with all the destruction we have wreaked upon the earth many people just don’t GET IT!!! If she had not been able to reunite with the pod she would probably have been in worse danger due to malnutrition. I guess they herd schools of their food fish so that everyone can eat. SO REMEMBER it’s not just one more plastic bottle it’s rafts of them in the ocean.

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4. Evelyn Edgett at

   When my friend moved out of state, she blessed me with many things she didn’t want to haul around, including several boxes of high end linen table cloths and a big box of blue linen napkins. She used to give dinner parties and cater banquets. I blessed an organization with the tablecloths, and I still use the napkins at every meal with my family. I just realized that I also have a red checkered tablecloth that I got from one of my many ‘decluttering hauls’. I have never been sure how to use it, but now I’m thinking a set of gorgeous, gaudy reed and white checkered napkins would be great! Thanks for the idea.

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   1. Texas Homesteader Post author at

      I’m not gonna lie Evelyn, using these cheery country-patterned napkins makes me smile – I don’t find them gaudy at all. Not only do I think they’re gorgeous, but I love that they’re environmentally sound both in the fact that they’re cloth napkins instead of disposables as well as the fact that they were handmade from a very unloved tablecloth. We still have the old green napkins and use them when needed such as when company comes for supper or when weather keeps our laundry in backlog because we can’t hang it on the line. But most meals are enjoyed with these cute napkins these days. Love, love, LOVE ’em! ~TxH~

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5. candace Ford at

   I’ve always loved cloth napkins and seem to have acquired a zillion of them and have made some too. When we moved from work in Washington state back to Oregon My mother had a boatload of paper products and there is still 9/10s of a boatload of them left. Usually when a paper product gets used here it finds it final resting place in the compost bin or if not, in the fire place along with all the junk mail addresses, the rest of the junk mail gets recycled (pray that all the places that accept recycling keep doing so and that all the idiots stop putting disposable diapers in with the recyclables.
   Lastly, do you get the news about the Orcas (killer whales) in Puget Sound? They are a small pod, and they are in jeopardy, we’ve fowled up their food supply by fouling up the rivers with dams and stuff. One mother birthed a calf which was either still born or died shortly she has been keeping that dead baby with her for over 2 weeks now. They grieve and I can hardly stop crying about it. A 2nd calf that is ill has been swimming with it’s mother, but scientist recently were able to get close enough and smell it’s spout (or something like that) to make a determination and were able to administer an antibiotic or some med and were talking about trying to get live salmon to them. Every time I talk about this or even think about it I am in tears over it. One plastic bottle at a time!!!
   Sorry to have gone on and on and now I am crying. And I won’t even talk about forest fires stated by crazy people.

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   1. Texas Homesteader Post author at

      My sweet, tender-hearted friend… Don’t let the overwhelming events discourage you. Remember you cannot control what others do, but you have full control over what YOU do. And others can be led by your actions to be gentle to the earth. Don’t give up on what you do, and in letting others see you do it. Preaching won’t change them, but I firmly believe that our actions are like ripples on the pond – they reach further & further affecting the water around them until they reach the other side of the pond. Rest assured your ripples are affecting others around you, then their ripples can have an even bigger impact. XOX ~TxH~

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      1. Linda at

         Amen!!!!!!!

         Our individual steps – no matter how small – to reduce our environmental footprint add up.

         The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
         Aristotle.

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