Rache

Are you in London Nick? The Danish laundry off Marylebone laneboils and starches your linen to perfection even when child-ed.

I know that's not what you're asking..

Im not Rache, clearly but - did it come rolled up? if so try rolling it the other way so it flattens out a bit. Alternatively I have seen some clip/hook things with little weights at the end which keep picnic tablecloths from blowing away but might help straightening it out. you could try something like that?

give me some credit ?

yes, it came rolled up but its pretty pliable, and is lying flat already - thats not the issue. the problem is the corners, where it hangs down. they fold over themselves and show the underside. i ll have to take a pic to demonstrate if i m not being clear enough ?

Maybe a little stitch is the answer - or would that make the cloth vulnerable to tears with young feet kicking around?

Sorry for stating the bleedin obvious then ?

Im not quite sure what you mean, though. Maybe I should leave the thread, quietly. Useless. ?

Could you gather the corners and safety-pin them (from the inside/underneath) into the shape you want? Or use some double-sided tape to hold them in place?

Ok the chav in me thinks can you not do hospital corners on the table cloth then tape them underneath so the table is then wrapped like a gift. if you use micropore tape it wont mark the table cloth.

oh god i sound so classy.

Nick, I got a new one today and it's doing the same thing. My old one didn't, so I can only assume they droop in time.

Like many other things, I imagine ?

nah. it would cost me more than the price of one of these vinly things to get them cleaned. plus i d be stressed about it. also, the vinly thing doesnt look or even feel like vinly, which is a result. am not in london anyway. thanks though ?

I can't see the pic ?

what are hospital corners?

soph, i dont want to pierce it really. it looks like the kind of stuf that if you put a hole in it, next minute you have two cloths ?

DST might be the answer though.

Hm. Mine don't do this - maybe they did at the start but they don't any more. i would get the weights I think - you can get them in ironmongers or via Lakeland. They can be a bit twee but I'm guessing having a vinyl tablecloth is beyond twee in the first place.?

Wrong on all levels!? Well Fwiw I'd try a stitch. A really subtle one along the fold you'd like to make. I think tape would come apart.

We have one on our kitchen table and I pleat the corners sort of thing and use tit tape (glorified double sided tape but sticks better) from inside so that the corners look natural. I basically agree with Sophie?

it doesnt ?

...and people accuse hitched of being dull these days. NickJ is posting about vinyl table clothes, it doesn't get any better. ?

I would fold the corners inwards and either do a tiny stitch or go for the double-sided tape option. I'm guessing it's not going to become a family hierloom so it won't matter it's "personalised" for this use.

It is where you fold one side down then the other over it. like wrapping a gift.

Nick, imagine having a bit paper and you're holding it at both ends. When you push them together the middle of the paper is pused away from you and you could crease it in two places to make an almost triangular fold (with the pushed out bit being the tip of the triangle and the creases being the other two sides of the triangle), so it would stay like that. You can do the same with the table cloth, with the tip of the tringle being folded under so it sits flush with the table cloth or so it points inwards under under your table. You would pull the two creases together and that's where you could stitch or used double sided tape to hold them together or if the folded but is flush with the tablecloth, use normal tape.

Show me a picture ?

this is so rock n roll ?

<sigh>

Nick, what is happening is that the surplus fabric is sticking outwards from the corner, folding over and flopping sideways, exposing the reverse side, right?

So what you want to do is create an inwards-facing pleat down from the corner, so you end up with two even, smaller folds sticking out.

Or buy a round table ?

I can't picture what you mean as I have a round table so cornerage issues don't apply to me. But whenever I get a new one I use copious amounts of steam under it to get it to soften slightly so I can then get it to drape over the edge of the table properly.

Is it draping problems you're having?

Apols for the awful photos, I'm in a rush...

The same thing will work if you fold the ends of the table cloth, you'll just need to do it at an angle.

Can you leave it on the table until Christmas? Ours used to do this too but it's corrected itself from being on the table all the time.

Ok i get it now <dimwit icon>

thank you all.

perhaps i should delete all my posts on this thread? my reputation is in tatters ? (or folds ?)

? what im now wondering is who cares if the inside is showing if its just for the kids

And replace the thread title with a "." ?

The other thing you could do is just cut the tablecloth from each corner of the table to the corresponding corenr of the cloth so it would drape over itself.

Well, it would guarantee a lot of reads ?

I was just writing you an email about business mentoring .... rethink I think ...

You could just go Greek and have a bit of corded elastic round underneath. Now that would be classy.

Send away. i m not always so boring or inept ?

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