A doily is the circular piece of lace that your grandmother used to decorate her living room tables. She may have put them under candles to catch the wax drippings, or perhaps she stacked them for a multi-dimensional effect. Chances are, they didn’t really serve much of a purpose at all. She just liked them.
Today, the doily has many uses, thanks to the creative minds on Pinterest. You no longer need to take up valuable table real estate to decorate your home with doilies. Here are some creative ways you can use your free crochet pattern doilies to decorate all sorts of things.
Decorative Packaging:
Using doilies as stencils, you can create beautiful homemade packaging for gifts. Adorn brown paper packaging or an everyday gift bag by painting a doily and laying it strategically over the package. It makes a gorgeous and elegant looking pattern that you can use over and over again.
Lacy Envelope Liners:
Traditionally, wedding invitations come with envelope liners to protect the contents of the package. Delicate doilies are a unique and creative spin on the traditional envelope liner. It provides a bit of a personal touch to your invitations and makes the recipient feel special.
Vintage Doily Necklace
Whether you have one of your grandmother’s vintage doilies lying around or you choose to make your own, you can create a statement necklace that no one else can replicate. Attach a piece of string or a chain to your doily and drape it across your collarbone for an elegant piece of jewelry like none other.
Doily Candle Jars:
Using adhesive spray, adhere doilies to mason jars, making elegant and rustic luminaries for a lovely candlelit ambiance. Next to using them on your tables, it’s one of the easiest and most elegant DIY projects you can do with your doilies after you crochet them.
Doily String Lights:
For a festive spin on your Christmas decorations, try stringing your lights with doilies. It adds dimension to your light strands and creates a lovely look reminiscent of a snowy winter landscape. The uniqueness of your doilies is like the individuality of each snowflake.
Stenciled Pumpkin:
Similar to the way you decorated your packaging using doilies as a template, you can do the same with your Halloween decor. Create unique pumpkins using doilies as a stencil. Use outdoor paint so you can place them on your porch for the holiday.
Doily Runner:
Sure, you could just crochet a table runner, but it’s more fun to crochet a multitude of different doily patterns and then attach them in a seemingly random order, creating a beautiful and delicate table runner perfect for holidays or parties.
Doily Bunting:
Or you could create bunting out of your doilies. Bunting is the perfect last-minute decoration for any event, and you can create one-of-a-kind bunting for just about anything. It’s gorgeous and creates a wonderful backdrop for other party decorations.
Doily Notebooks:
Use your doilies to create notebook covers. Your daughter will go back to school with all of the pizzazz she needs to help her turn heads with her school supplies. You can use them as stencils or use a spray-on adhesive to attach them to the notebook itself.
The ideas are endless. Use any free crochet pattern for doilies to get your creative juices flowing. If you’ve been shying away from making doilies because you don’t know what to do with them, this should get you started. You may not be able to stop!
