Wednesday, May 9, 2012

☩DIY☩ Doily Dreamcatcher

Things you will need for this DIY:
✝ a doily
✝ sticks
✝ light and dark colored embroidery floss
✝ scissors
✝ cruelty-free feathers


Total time:
1 hour

Total cost:
Check your attic and local park before you buy anything.

One of my favorite things I've inherited from both Rubin's late grandmother and mine are beautiful hand made doilies like this one. I'm not really stoked on putting them on armrests so I am always looking for ways to display and appreciate them. I have a few ideas, here is one...


I took a stroll in the park and collected these twigs.


First tie the sticks together to make a large loop.

Make sure the loop is larger than the doily.


Tie one scallop of the doily to the loop.

Then tie the opposite scallop. Work all the way around, alternating opposite sides. This will keep it circular.

Done!

Then wrap the feathers in thread and attach.

Voila! Hang above your bed to catch all the bad dreams. In our case, the guest bed.

6 comments:

  1. I love this! It's very free-people-ish, especially in front of the flag! Great diy!

    Gwen
    http://under-a-bridge.blogspot.com/

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  2. Love it! I'll do it soon, it's so perfect and cheap!

    xoxo
    http://colorfulpaillettes.blogspot.com.es/

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  3. Just lovely! Thanks for sharing.

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  4. As a Native American (NDN), Family doilies, handmade family items, often used to decorate around food and sustenance, being reused, this is beautiful, it is within the true spirit of a beautiful dream catcher concept!!

    Photography in front of an American Flag? Yeah, well...guess perhaps you don't know much about our history to do that. Really killed my joy and interest in sharing. Also just generally inappropriate.

    I would ask you to use NO FLAG, no flag, in the dream catcher concept photo, use anything but a flag, regardless of country/location of origin. Then you might begin to understand what a DREAM CATCHER is, not just commercialized etsy/pinterest photography. When you understand what you just made, you'd never consider that photo as appropriate.

    Thanks...

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  5. i love this reinterpretation of a dream catcher, its so pretty x

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  6. i really like this. check out my blog please prettymarshmallow.blogspot.com

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