A Flag-Inspired Print
The pattern takes its cues from the flag: bands of red and white with a field of stars, printed edge to edge rather than crowded into a border. On a long table it holds together as a single sweep of color, so the plates and cups placed on top do not have to match it exactly. Watermelon rinds and paper napkins look less like clutter on a busy print.
Heat On The Driveway
PEVA is the reason these hold up on a hot afternoon. It stays flexible instead of going brittle in direct sun, has enough weight not to lift off the table with the first gust, and it is soft to the touch where a stiff plastic would crackle under every elbow. Condensation from a cooler drink runs off it rather than soaking down into the wood beneath.
One For Memorial Day
Patriotic tables come around more than once a year. With two covers in the pack, one can go out in May and the second waits, still folded, for the Fourth. Or both go down at the same event, one on the food table and one on the drinks, and the pair of them makes a long buffet look deliberate rather than assembled from what was in the garage.
Pinned To A Fence
Away from the table, one cover can be pinned along a fence rail or hung from a porch beam, where it turns a plain span of wood into a block of red and blue. It also lines the bed of a truck or the floor of a canopy for a picnic on grass. Clothespins hold it well enough, and the material is durable enough to take a pinched corner.
