Serviettenapkin Folding Celebrate With Candles Food

SERVIETTE/NAPKIN FOLDING, A NECK TIE FOR DAD...

Steps:

• Lay your serviette out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Take your finger and place it half way between the West and South points, and about 1 inch toward the centre of the serviette. Next, Take the East point at bring it to the point where your finger is. Don't crease this fold (yet).
• Now take the West point of the serviette and bring it over to the East side so that both sides of this new diamons shape are even. Youmay have to adjust the first fold a little to get it looking good, once they are both ok, you can crease both the folds.
• You will have a very fat tie shape.
• Repeat the previous step again completely and you will have a smaller tie shape in front of you now.
• Take the top third of the tie (the narrowest bit) and fold it under and over itself horizontally (the end tip should be tucked undernieth) and the top should now look like the knot of a formal neck tie.
• Place on a plate and surprise the men in your life!

SERVIETTE/NAPKIN FOLDING, CELEBRATE WITH CANDLES!

Steps:

• Lay your serviette out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Take the corner at South and bring it up to meet the corner at North. You will have before you a triangle shape with the crease at the bottom.
• Take the two points at North and bend them forward South but only go one third of the way down the serviette. This will make a tiny triangle at the top that faces downwards.
• Fold the little triangle towards South again, only one third of the main serviette will be showing at the bottom now. Then fold the strip over again towards South so that the top now meets the bottom edge at South. (You should have folded the triangle downwards 3 times in all) This results in a long thin strip that has two little triangle points sticking out at each end.
• Take hold of the little triangle at the left end of the strip that you have and fold it under and backwards under itself so that the point sticks up (this will be your candle "flame").
• Now start to roll up the long strip, starting at the end where the left triangle has been folded backwards. Roll the strip up to the end, tucking the last part under and into the roll at the base of your candle.
• Voila ! a Candle serviette/ Napkin ! -- and how easy was that!

SERVIETTE/NAPKIN FOLDING, MARIE'S LILY PAD VARIATION, LOTUS

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you in a square shape.
• Take the top right corner and fold the point into the center point of the square. Repeat with the other 3 corners. You should have a diamond shape in front of you.
• Take the East point of this diamond and fold it into the center point, and repeat with the other 3 corners. The serviette will be square again and have gaps in the form of an X.
• Carefully turn the serviette over and fold each of the corners into the centerpoint again.
• Carefully turn it over and you will see 4 loose points on the underside.(this step is only to make the next step clearer).
• Turn back over to the previous side, lay the serviette down and press firmly on the center point where the 4 corners meet. Carefully reach undernieth with your other hand and grab one of the loose points on the underside and bring it to the outside of the corner that it belongs to. This creates the outer petal of that quarter of the flower.
• Repeat with the other 3 corners.
• At this point you have the napkin that I call Marie's Lily Pad Flower. but the Lotus calls for an extra step.
• Reach undernieth again and you will find a second layer of 4 flaps on the bottom, gently pull them out to the front side ( hold the centre points firmly so that everything stays intact) and you will have a fuller looking flower that has additional petals/ leaves at the sides, inbetween the main petals. This addition turns the napkin into a "Lotus".

SERVIETTE/NAPKIN FOLDING, TIED IN A LOOSE KNOT.

Steps:

• Lay your serviette square out flat before you in a diamond shape.
• Fold the North point of the diamond down to meet the South point of the diamond. You will now have a triangle shape that's pointing downwards.
• Take hold of the South points and start rolling them up towards the North point, stopping fractionally short of the crease at the top.
• Loop the right hand end over the left hand end, pull the right hand end though the resulting hole to form a loose knot.
• Don't pull the knot too tight, just enough to be pleasing and informal.