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colorful crochet doily bowls sitting on a table

Lace doilies are nice to have around to protect your table from water stains, but what do you do with them when you have too many, you don't really like them, or it's time to toss them out?

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an orange pair of scissors sitting on top of a doily

Would you believe that this decoration took less than 5 minutes to make??? I promise you, it did! You'll need an old doily, scissors, PVA glue and a piece of string for hanging: So I started with this old doily which had a small tear in it. It could probably have been mended, but I wasn't going to use it anyway. First you cut out your motif. I felt positively evil doing this... it just felt SO WRONG to cut into a piece of crochet like that! At any moment I expected my first grade teacher to…

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there are five pictures with different things in them and the words 5 amazing new uses for old doilies

The ABC Crafts Series: D is for...Doilies Welcome to this week's edition of the ABC Crafts Series. We have finally reached D, to show you some wonderful uses for old doilies. I have many of these at home, made by my grandmother and some even by my great-grandmother. I rarely use them, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them, not only because they enclose a lot of memories but also because of the amount of work that was put into them a long time ago and that would be wasted otherwise. So…

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a woman holding up a large quilt with many different designs on it

What's a doily? What were they used for? And most importantly, what do you do with all of grandmother's old doilies? Here's a brief doily history and what you can do with all your grandmother's old doilies.

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