Lace Doily Embroidery Hoops

Good morning, friends πŸ™‚ Today I’m bringing you a super easy tutorial that will only take minutes but will leave you with an adorable collection of hangings for a gallery wall – lace doily embroidery hoops. Embroidery hoops are not just for needlework anymore and they’ve been popping up on the craft scene for the past couple years or so. I recently picked up a few at the craft store, but didn’t have any real plan for them. This past week I started cleaning and reorganizing my craft supplies, and in doing so, I came across some lace doilies that I had acquired along the way – from a thrift store, I think. Lightning bolt! Why not combine the hoops and the doilies and see how it looks?

Here’s where I started:

embroidery hoops

Then I just laid the doily on the top of the inner ring of the embroidery hoop

embroidery hoops

and pushed the top ring over the top and tightened the screw at the top.

embroidery hoops

And there you have it – EASIEST. TUTORIAL. EVER! πŸ˜‰

embroidery hoops

I repeated this with two other doilies and two other hoops. All the hoops are the same size, since that is all that I had on hand, but I think it would be even better to have different sizes for a more varied look. One of my doilies was too small to fit in the embroidery hoop, so I put some tulle in the hoop first and then attached the doily to the tulle with a couple dabs of hot glue. The other one was bigger than the hoop so the fringe of it stuck out behind the hoop – I kind of like how it looks, though!

I temporarily put them up in my bedroom above my gold-dipped vintage chair. I might move them once we redo the main office – we are going to tear out all the wallpaper and beadboard in there so there isn’t any point in putting up anything on the walls yet! I also definitely plan on adding more hoops and doilies of different sizes for bigger impact and a more put together look.

embroidery hoops

embroidery hoops

embroidery hoops

embroidery hoops

I think the lace doily embroidery hoops look quite sweet and add a nice vintage touch. This would be a great way to display some vintage pieces that have been passed down from a grandmother! I like the way the look near my wooden hanger necklace holder as well. ItΒ  makes the corner look a little more permanent!

embroidery hoops

What would you do with empty embroidery hoops? I plan on picking up some more soon and could use some fun ideas!

signout


subscription-2


 

14 Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *