Clever with a Needle

Hooray for the inspirational blogging world!  It’s amazing when something that seems perfectly obvious just never occurs to you.  So it was until I read this post.  Any reader of my blog(s) will know that I love vintage embroidery and old linens, and so I have a nice little collection of doileys and tablecloths.  Amelia has given me the idea to make a quilt out of some of my doiley collection – that is, the ones that are stained in places, the ones that are a bit shabby and uninteresting, but not my absolute favourites that are currently in use under my bric-a-brac and thingymajigs.  It does seem a shame to cut them up, but I plan to trim as little as possible off them (but I am trimming off the lacey edges) and stitch them together so they’re all gorgeous and on display.

So that’s my new quilt project…now if I could just finish the other two I’ve got on the go…