Spice Up a Tablecloth with Ribbon

Hi, I'm Evette Rios here on eHow.com and I wanted to share with you a really simple way that you can dress up your holiday table using just ribbon and double stick tape. So this is super easy, start out with a solid color tablecloth. You could frankly do a pattern but it's going to be a little busy with the technique I'm going to show you but you basically just start out wit a tablecloth, just kind of lay it out on your table and then I got ribbon here. What you're going to need for this project is some ribbon and some double stick tape. This is a giant industrial roll that happen to have but you can use any old double stick tape. You're not going to need too much of it and then you're going to cut your ribbon so that it is the length of your table and I kind of like it when it's a little bit jagged at the end so you can always cut one of them a little bit longer than the other one so that one is about right right there and I'm going to make sure that it's nice and straight. So I've got my double stick tape already cut and I'm just going to take some tape and just tape it right down to the back of the table like that and then you're just going to peel off the backing and what's great about the double stick tape is it's not going to damage your tablecloth and it's also not going to damage your ribbon so you could always reuse this ribbon and frankly use any left over ribbon you have from packing holiday gifts or you know any ribbon you happen to have. And you don't need to use expensive stuff, trust me. So I'm going to stick that down there and then I'm going to come over here and I'm going to sort of weave it. So I've got one done on the other side so I'm going to go under and then I'm going to go over like that and I'm just going to put a little bit of tape here. This is just to hold it in place. I'm going to peel off the backing like that, just make sure that it's nice and straight. That looks pretty good like that and then I'm going to do one more. Now I'm going to make this one maybe a little bit longer than the other one and you want to cut your edges also so that they are kind of in a slanted form like that and I'm going to cut this one maybe a little bit shorter than the other one and then I'm going to weave it. I did this one over so I'm going to put the next one under. So I'm going to go like this. You kind of get it, it's like weaving a basket, super easy. Now I'm going to grab my double stick tape again and I'm going to stick it right under there and peel off the top, put that like that and then I'm going to grab another one and do the back end and you can always add if you wanted to add like an accent ribbon to this to make it a little bit more dressy, I've got a little piece right here that you can always add to it for instance I could stick it right in here just to kind of dress it up a little bit and then stick it down right there and let it hang and there you go. That's a simple way to zuzh up your holiday tablecloth using just ribbon and a little bit of tape. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Evette Rios here on eHow.com and from all of us happy holidays.