Crafts: Lace Handkerchief Home: greenlightwrite.com featuring
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Crafts: Lace Handkerchief Home: greenlightwrite.com featuring
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Living - Victorian Life Carrying a pretty hankie is no longer a custom. For a special occasion, a wedding, a Christening, a theatre production, a ball, an anniversary or any where you might shed a few tears and need to dab your eyes, then a lace handkerchief is perfect and oh so feminine. You can purchase one, of course, or make your own. It's not difficult and will be treasured as an heirloom. If for a bride, it can easily be made into a baby bonnet for her first child. Enjoy, |
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Cut the lace into four 11 inch lengths. Wash and press the fabric square. Lay out the fabric square Center the flat side of an 11 inch length of lace on each edge of the square and pin in place. You want any scallops the lace might have to be on the outside edge, away from the cloth square. The ends of the lace pieces should overlap at right angles. With a tiny zigzag stitch, carefully sew the lace around all four edges of the hankie. With a tiny zigzag, carefully sew from each corner point of the cloth square out to the edge of the lace. When all four corners are sewn, carefully snip the overlapping lace off the corners close to the diagonal stitching and discard. The lace will be joined in a diagonal seam at each corner.
You may choose to embroider a few white on white or colored flowers and leaves in one or all the corners. You can even put the initials of the bride or baby or grandmother or godchild in one corner. I sewed a white shamrock on the handkerchiefs I made for the bridesmaids in my daughter Barbra's wedding.
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