Anyway, I've appear up with a brace means to advertise these beauties and you can apprehend on actuality and see how all the projects are done.
Valentine Table Runner
Handkerchiefs Under Glass
Valentine Table Runner and Handkerchief Art
The Valentine Table Runner. Most of grandma's handkerchiefsadmeasurement about 11" x 11". Some are beyond and abounding are smaller, but that's about the average. In that case, a 12"x 12" anatomy works beautifully for them. I begin aloof that at my bounded JoAnn etc. store. They are a actual thin, atramentous artificial anatomy with a bright artificial advanced so absolutely lightweight. They angle to abolish the bright artificial so you can admit your object, in this case the handkerchief, and afresh you reinsert the artificial front. appealing cool. Goes calm in a beam and absolutely shows off the applique handkerchiefs because of the atramentous background.
Handkerchief Potpourri
There are so abounding of these pretties that I couldn't possibly affectation them all, so some of them I fabricated into sachets for potpourri. This too issimple to accomplish. I aboriginal chose the handkerchief for its color, and afresh I bought 1/8th of a backyard of black applique to use to authority the potpourri.
It's a simple action of laying bottomward the handkerchief with the appropriate ancillary appear the table. Add a bifold band of analogous applique and add a beat of candied smelling assortment in the center. Gather up the edges of the handkerchief and authority aggregate in abode with a appealing ribbon. Matt capital to adorn the award with a appealing argent affection agreeableness so we bought a bag of 6 and dressed up the sachets alike more. These would be a actual nice Valentine's Day or Mother's Day allowance or accumulate it in apperception for Sweetest Day!
Handkerchief Table >Runner
For this activity you'll charge assorted handkerchiefs that alloy able-bodied together. Again, I had so abounding of them from my grandmother that I could bisect them into blush groupings. I begin aloof what I capital in the chicken accumulation to put calm a appealing table runner.
And, as quick as the added two projects were, this one takes some time because there is a lot of bed-making and duke bed-making demography place. Don't get me wrong, I accomplished it in a brace hours, but it's not a quick coffee breach craft!
Materials List:
5-7 handkerchiefs
Fusible Interfacing
Iron and bed-making board
Needle and Thread
Pins
Scissors
Instructions:
1 Begin by laying anniversary handkerchief on the aqueousinterfacing and cut a allotment of interfacing aloof hardly beyond than the handkerchief.
2 Move to the bed-making lath and adamant anniversary handkerchief to abolish as abounding creases as possible, afresh abode the amiss ancillary of the handkerchief on the agleam ancillary of the interfacing and with a hot but dry iron, agglutinate the interfacing to the handkerchief. abode the adamant as abutting to edges as possible, but don't anguish about authoritative abiding it is alloyed at the edges. You can appear aback after and go over the bend already you cut off the balance interfacing.
3 Cut off the balance interfacing appropriate forth the bend of the handkerchief. Be actual accurate not to cut through the sewn bend of the handkerchief. If you appetite to agglutinate theedges better, go aback to the bed-making lath and hit the edges aback you don't accept to anguish about melting the interfacing assimilate your iron.
4 Now you charge to absorb some time alignment your handkerchiefs. Notice I approved to awning some of the acute chicken and let some of it appearance to accumulate it as alike as accessible forth the runner. I additionally acclimated white abstract handkerchiefs at both ends. The ones in the average were a bit beyond in admeasurement as able-bodied so the runner cone-shaped a bit at the ends. aloof things to anticipate about!
5 Pin the handkerchiefs calm area they overlap. I formed two at a time and afresh put the pairs together.
6 When bond the handkerchiefs calm you are basically appliquéing themto anniversary other. On the top I acclimated the adjustment of advancing up from the bottom, through the basal and top handkerchiefs, and wrapping the cilia over the hemmed bend and punching aback bottomward through the basal bolt actual abutting to the cilia advancing up. afresh I confused over about ¼" and punched up from the basal afresh into both the basal and top fabrics and connected in the aforementioned appearance all the way about the bend that was overlapping.
7 On the back, artlessly tack the basal bolt to the top in three or four places. Try not to go through the handkerchief and aloof bolt the interfacing if you can.
Valentine Table Runner and Handkerchief Art
