What do you do with a bunch of doilies?

I have been collecting doilies...

a lot of doilies...

a whole big bunch doilies...I enlisted friends and family in this search...

An older lady at one of the thrift stores I stop in a couple times a month while on my  search  calls me her "doily lady". She would ask me how many I had found...I have no clue, I had never counted. I just knew I was going to need a lot for all the project ideas I had. 

I finally got the time to work on a banner/garland for my Darling Daughter...

I hung the doily banner on the front window at my house to take these photos. The window in her house is much larger than mine, so I draped the ends on either side of my window, then pulled up on parts of it to create some swags.

I created scrunchy bows out of crinkled seem binding ribbon and placed one between each doily on the banner...

DD hung her  banner up on her window, looks pretty good. Now I need t come up with some other creative ideas for all those doilies...yes, I'm still collecting.

Hand Dyed

I have been playing with color washes, dyes and ink...

and what a great time I have been having creating "HAND DYED" Crinkle Seam Binding...

Red, Green, Blue, Yellow and a  vintage  Rose

As you can see from the photo I was even able to teach them how to line up all in a row...

I placed these  colorful bundles in the Boutique at Scrapbook Barn, and they sold out fast...I "cooked" up another batch and the last time I looked there were only a few left.

It's time to make more...my nail tech is going to love me!