Very, very easy DIY center squares

Very, very easy DIY center squares

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• 7.25.2011

You know how when you get something catered or use a venue they do standard square tablecloths on round tables and square contrast napkins in the center?  You choose the colors and even if you want round or long skinny tables, but that's all the decorating the venue does for you (which makes sense).

Which is fine for a corporate picnic or even high school reunion, but for our wedding I want to try a little harder.  People do all kinds of great center pieces (SO many ideas!), but we're doing white milk glass vases on the tables, two or three per, plus the table number, and I wanted something under them.  I didn't really want the polyester catering napkin to go with my simple additions.

But it is a pretty simple tablescape.  So I used some yellow seersucker and print that we had left over from other wedding projects, and made one purple one for our table.  I used the pinking blade for the rotary cutter and cut 20" squares.  No need to hem them since the edges are all pinked, and if I want to re-use the fabric in the future, I still have pretty big pieces to work with!

Here they are at the wedding!

Photos by Studio 623 Photography

(If you did any DIYs for your wedding or the wedding of a friend or loved one, I'd love for you to share them in the Adventures in Dressmaking DIY Weddings Flickr group!!)