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Easy Paper Doily Flower Ornament

This Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Doily Flower Ornament looks pretty hanging on a tree. These were made using 6-inch diameter paper doilies, a few short pieces of ribbon and some yarn. Don’t they look delicate?

Four Paper Doily Flower Ornaments hanging on a tree

These pretty ornaments are easy to make and use only inexpensive materials and tools.

Here’s an up close view of the one we make in the instructions on the Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Doily Flower Ornament page.

An up close view of a finished paper doily flower ornament in our Easy Christmas Crafts series

These simple and pretty paper doily flower ornaments can also add decoration to a wrapped gift. They can also be a place card decoration with the simple addition of a name tag for a dinner party. Your guests could take their decoration home as a simple yet pretty ornament for their Christmas trees.

Use different ribbons to make a variety of these fun ornaments! Oh, for another variation, split the ribbons after they are curled.

You will find the step-by-step instructions accompanied by photographs on our Easy Christmas Crafts Paper Doily Flower Ornaments page.

Have fun!

Framed Doily

Do you have doilies that someone crocheted and shared with you but you don’t know what to do with them? Perhaps you think they’re pretty but you don’t want to use them as people used them in years past.

Your great grandma, your grandma or maybe even your mom used crocheted doilies as protection for the arms and backs of chairs and for placing under tchotchkes on end tables or coffee tables.

With today’s styles, what can you do with doilies?

A framed doily makes a beautiful, interesting and warm decoration for your home. You can use a favorite color or a color that coordinates with your decor as a contrasting background within the frame. Or, if you have several, framed doilies make beautiful gifts too.

Take a look at this example:

This one happens to be a gift to the person (my sister-in-law, Kee) who gave me the doily. She didn’t use the doily and thought I could find a purpose for it. This framed doily version incorporates her favorite and second favorite colors, ocean blue-green and crimson red, to contrast and highlight the beauty of the doily.

This framed doily will make a pretty addition to her home.

You can find the simple, easy and fast instructions here: Frugal Fun Crafts – Framed Doily.

Enjoy!

Doilies Offer Many Possibilities

A doily pillow represents just one way to highlight the beauty of the delicate and intricate work of the crocheted stitches.

Take a look at this pillow – one side shows multicolored green yarn and the other multicolored yellow yarn. Both sides highlight the artistry of the crocheted doilies:

Maybe you have a crocheter in your family and friends. Or, perhaps you purchased some doilies for their beauty then didn’t know what to do with them.

This easy-to-do doily pillow adds a beautiful accent to a group of pillows on a bed, a window seat or anywhere a soft pillow works in your decor.

Plus, the look varies by the choice of pillow fabric – light or dark, matching or contrasting – and the type of ribbon you use to weave the doilies together.

With just a few inexpensive tools and materials and a short amount of time, you can make a pillow today. And, when you want a different look, you can easily change the fabric and ribbon to make another pillow with the same doilies.

Take a look at the how to steps on our web site: funEZcrafts Doily Pillow.

Have fun!