I love learning how to crochet charming and stunning crochet doily patterns. They easily add texture to surfaces all over your home and can really protect your more expensive wooden surfaces from the bumps and bruises of glass tchotchkes or knick knacks. The problem is too many doilies on too many surfaces starts too look a bit like you’re living in an antique store. Now don’t get me wrong, I love some good doily on doily action, but there are even more exciting ways to use your crochet doily patterns and projects once you have finished them! For some ideas, the editors of FaveCrafts turned to our active Facebook audience for their suggestions. Check out what our friends had to say!
19 Ingenious Uses for Doilies
- Use doilies on mixed media projects like these stunning journals. –Johana Laskso
Image courtesy of Nooti
- Frame them with a contrasting background and hang as art. –Deborah C. Harding
- Rugs in doll’s houses. – Melanie Rayner
- Transform your finished crochet and lace doily patterns into delicate and decorative bowls. – Tiffany from Cool2Craft
- Put a doily at the center of a ring and hang it with feathers and beads to make a dream catcher. – Pamela Heath
- Use them on purses, towels, hats, and t-shirt! –Marie Rust
- I’ll put a doily half in and hanging out of a drawer. It’s a really pretty accent! Especially on dresser drawers. – Gloria Belanger Baker
- Attached to a piece of velvet and framed in an embroidery hoop makes a lovely wall hanging. – Waneta Snyder Miles
- String smaller crochet doily patterns onto a necklace for a soft and lacy accent for your wardrobe. – Maya Kuzman from thelittletreasures.blogspot.com
- Add them to lampshades by sewing them onto singlets and tops. – Myshelle Cole
- Attach to the bottom of a skirt as trim.– Myshelle Cole
- Hang them as wallhangings. – Myshelle Cole
- Combine doilies to make curtains. – Myshelle Cole
- Molded with fabric stiffener to make a doily bowl or made into a cake plate cover. – Gloria Belanger Baker
- Use them to add interest while quilting.-Judy Lunsford
- Combine multiple doily patterns to make a table runner. – Bernat Yarns
- Use smaller doily patterns as coasters for your home! – Morgan (our newsletter editor!)
- Use crochet doily projects as bunting. – Dawn Gardner
- Wrap them around your wrist to make a lovely DIY bracelet! – Debby from Arty Crafty
Crochet Doily Patterns We Love
If you are dying to try out one of the ideas above, check out these free crochet doily patterns over on FaveCrafts and AllFreeCrochet for inspiration.
- Lacy Doily T-Shirt Yarn Rug
- Pretty Doily Crochet Pattern
- Tulip Mandala Crochet Pattern
- Elegant Crochet Doily
- Pansy Doily
- Crown of Pineapples Doily
- Pinwheel Doily Pattern
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