Repurpose project - Doily becomes a brooch

One of the great things about sharing your love for all things recycle/re-purpose/re-use with others, is that often, they will think of you when they come across something a little too special to throw out. So although they may no longer want or need the item, they think of you instead of just throwing it out.   Like this little doily that was given to me.

Supplies I used:

doily, scissors, thread,needle, random glass bead, felt scrap, brooch backing

I cut 2 pieces of felt from a scrappy piece. Using some embroidery thread I sewed on the brooch backing  to one piece then joined both pieces together with some decorative blanket stitching (which I am slowly getting better at)

I decided to sew a little glass bead I had in my jewelry stash to the centre of the doily.  This helped to hide all the stitching as well as give it some weight to help it look more like a flower.

Here is the finished product.   A fun project which even if you only have very basic sewing skills can be done in less than 30 minutes.  The doilies can be folded or scrolled or left flat even.  Your creation, your way.

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