Crafts with vintage ladies handkerchief?
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Vintage Hankies Have Found New Life as a Handmade Baby Quilt!
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I used fabric stiffener & mod podge and made a "plastic bowl".. I would love some more projects to use the ones I have as well.
I recently bought a clock (for the 'frame' and glass). I removed the clock mechanism. I glued cream burlap over the interior circle of cardboar. After this dried I placed hankies, lace and ribbon, as well as other decorative items, them put this back into the old clock...instant decor using sentimental items.
make hanky angels
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They can be lightly stitched together and put them over a curtain rod....in a powder room bath or in a kitchen window - depends on how many you have. Also, enclose a pressed handkerchief into an Easter card for a friend and tell your friend what the handkerchief means to you - she will save it hopefully. If you keep your Christmas tree up all year (as I do), you can 'theme' a season for the tree using your handkerchiefs tied to make a fluffy little gathering and hook it to a tree branch. Then add some strings of beads or pearls which you can obtain from the craft store or fabric store - all around the tree - like a garland approach. If you have some old tea cups, wire the handle and hang those on a few tree branches and VOILA - you have a pretty, vintage, ladies "tea tree".
My daughter made them into small cushions. And added buttons and ribbon to the front, then backed with contrasting material. Make nice ring cushion for weddings. I made bunting for an vintage tea party.
You can also cut them up to make unique covered buttons.
I used some to make memory boxes for relatives. Get some small sentimental items from the person you are making it for. Use the Hankie for the background and then add the items to your box. (a train ticket, a small makeup container...) You can get nice glass front boxes at Michaels. A friend used them to make a valance for the bathroom window by hanging them with safety pins pinned to the corner and strung across a wire.