How to Make a French Toile Tablecloth ~ Part 2

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Last time we left off at shiplap joining the middle seam

between the two halves of this tablecloth and today

we will work on finishing it!

🙂

How to Piece together Toile (cont.)

Once the seam is joined flip the fabric over to the

wrong side and press towards either the right or left.

Here I’ve pressed my seam left {very top of photo}.

*Here’s the link to Part 1.
🙂

Turn right side up and top stitch close to the main seam.

{Shown here on the right side of this photograph.}

Turn wrong side up again and *grade the seam allowance then roll the top piece of fabric underneath.

Press again.

{Lower part of the photo.}

🙂

*Grading a seam allowance takes out the bulk taking the bottom selvage piece

down to 3/8″ and the upper 5/8″ selvage can then wrap around it easily.

This creates nicely finished seams with no frayed edges showing.

Turn the fabric right side up one final time and topstitch

1/4″ from the first topstitching.

{Shown on the left side of the above photograph;

I was doing two things at once in these photos ~

hence why I’m sharing both pics twice.}

Sizing your tablecloth into a square

Take your cloth and lay on a table or on the floor right side up.

Fold the cloth horizontally and matching the sewn seam ~

making the uncut top and bottom pieces meet up

at the shorter lengths.

Here the fabric is folded horizontally matching the vertical seam stacked on top of each other ~
shown on the very left edge of the table above.

Now cut off the extra fabric that extends beyond like the

photograph below:

The extra fabric from the top and bottom are cut away {here folded over ready to cut away}.

Once the extra fabric is removed from the top and bottom

measure the height of the tablecloth.

This gives you your final measurement for what to cut

from the sides of the tablecloth.

You can cut this square two different ways

1) Measure from top to bottom ~ this is the measurement you

will divide and mark for the side seams beginning

horizontally from the center of the seam to each side.

Mark the measurements outward from the seam ~ one set at the

top and one at the bottom of the left and right halves

of the tablecloth.

On mine I measured 31″ on the left side and another 31″

on the right side.

Draw a line from top to bottom on the left and again on

the right sides and cut off this extra fabric.

2) A different and less measuring intensive way to do this

is by folding the fabric on top of a large table or the floor

into a large rectangle.

Do this by first folding horizontally aligning the vertical seam

as before when removing the extra top and bottom fabric.

Finger press the seam as the photograph shows above.

Then fold the fabric left side across to the right side ~ there

will be a little less on the top side with the fold

but then you’ll cut off a little more from the bottom piece

{as shown in the next photograph where the top piece

is lifted up}.

This creates “the square” as you can see in the above

photograph.

Now measure the amount need to cut off on the sides; remove.

This second way is really faster as the large mass of fabric

is in a smaller size and easier to deal with.

The resulting large piece is a nice square without

the hassle of laying out lines and possible mistakes.

🙂

My ruffle inspiration ~ this Shabby Chic tablecloth. I love the ruffles’ seam showing on the outside!

Making a Ruffle

If you’d like to create a ruffle for your French toile de Jouy tablecloth, begin with measuring the area of your “square.”

Mine at 62″ x 62″ square {31″ left and right halves plus the same vertically}:

Area = length x 4 or 62 + 62 + 62 + 62″ = 248″

Yours may be different.

Ruffles are usually 1.5x – 2x the area in length

so this tablecloth’s area doubled would be 496″.

When I went back to the store to buy more fabric there

was only 1.75 yards, so I divided 45″ width into 496″ and

this boiled down to a ruffle width of 5.75″ for each piece.

6 pieces could be cut out of 36″/1 yard of fabric.

I was able to cut 10 widths.

Seam these together at each end, all figures facing the correct

way and making one long piece.

Fold under the top 3/4″ and press along this top edge from

the wrong side of the fabric.

Double turn under the lower edge, press and sew this

bottom seam.

{I chose to do this later. I’m sorry I didn’t take any

photographs at this stage for you! 🙁 }

The ruffle is ready to pin onto the tablecloth edges.

Begin by figuring out how many pieces will fit on a side ~

mine with 10 pieces/4 sides = 2.5 pieces per side.

Pin one edge from the left corner and count the pieces and pin

to the next corner.

Pull the fabric from the very middle of the ruffle and pin

to the middle of this tablecloth edge.

Keep halving the pieces over and over until it is all pinned.

Move to the next side and repeat.

For more detailed photographs click here in the post

I wrote last summer when making our chair covers.

Here you can see the beginning of the pinning.

Sneak peek at an upcoming table setting post…

Sew the seam with the ruffle edge to the outside and pull

pins as you go.

This does take some time but once you get the first seam in

if you want to a second seam can be added like in

the inspiration piece.

And that’s it!

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How to Make a French Toile Tablecloth ~ Part 2

How to Piece together Toile (cont.)

Sizing your tablecloth into a square

You can cut this square two different ways

Making a Ruffle

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How to Piece together Toile (cont.)

Sizing your tablecloth into a square

You can cut this square two different ways

Making a Ruffle

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