Instillation

The day to install our napkin display came. The other members of the group and I all brought our napkins. We had our labels made, our fabric and pins and were ready to go.

We started by laying out all the napkins alphabetically with the labels. We ended up having 53 different drinks, but got rid of three to make an even 50. That way we could do five rows of ten napkins. The fabric was a little long and frayed on the ends so we had to cut the length and the ends off to try and make it look more smooth. Once that was done it was ready to pin up in the display case. That part was pretty easy. Next we began to space out the napkins and pin them up on the fabric. We put the first row up and it looked good, so we did the second, third, fourth and finally fifth. The pins hurt pretty bad to stick into the board so it was a relief when they were all pinned. (We had to pin two corners of each napkin also). We used a ruler to try and line the rows up straight and even with each other to try and make it look as professional as we could. Next we added the labels below the napkins with double-sided tape. It worked pretty well. Once everything was up we had to make a few adjustments. Leah decided to pin all four corners of the napkins, which was a good idea because they kind of floated out from the fabric before. So that wasn't fun pinning more napkins down.

Once we thought we were completely done and ready to go, we were told that we should probably fix the rows. About half-way through they got kind of sloppy and drooped down. The labels were also uneven throughout the display. So we decided we should fix the problem, and fix the labels. Once we did that, we were DONE. We were satisfied with how it turned out and called it compete.

I really like how it ended up. I wasn't expecting us to have that many napkins, but i'm glad we did. I think the more variety we had, the better. The different rings and colors really showed up against the black background. So overall I think it turned out just as we thought and were very happy with it.