Dainty Doilies
Is it when you keeping making something you've got absolutely no use for? If so, I've got a serious problem. I told you a few posts back that I'd caught Doily Fever and as time went on it was clear to see that the symptoms were pretty bad:
✿ A compulsion to keep hunting for doily pattern, even when you've found more than you'll ever make.
✿ Making doily after doily when you've never needed a doily in your life.
✿ Making doilies even though you've no earthly idea where they will even go in your home.
✿ Spending money, buying cotton to make the doilies you don't need.
✿ Seeing the bewildered looks of those around you when you explain 'yes' it's going to be a doily'.
Yep, I had it bad alright.
But don't worry, it turns out ok in the end... I think.
I've stopped making doilies anyway. I don't know quite how I stopped but I guess the lunacy of it all sunk into even my dim brain in the end. But there's a part of me that's wants to keep going. They're kind of compelling somehow.
Still, one doily free day at a time.
I've managed, more or less successfully to distribute them around the homestead. One here on the side board, another there on the lamp table. A few lying, slightly pointlessly, on the hearth.
But should the need for a dainty ladies tea party arise, one of those with paper thin teacups and delicate sandwiches with the crusts cut off, then I'll be ready. Ready to spring into action with lacy sweet decorative doilies, to delight any innocent unmarried maidens that may turn up to sip a little tea whilst we work on our needlepoint together. Or something.
✿ Making doilies even though you've no earthly idea where they will even go in your home.
✿ Spending money, buying cotton to make the doilies you don't need.
✿ Seeing the bewildered looks of those around you when you explain 'yes' it's going to be a doily'.
But don't worry, it turns out ok in the end... I think.
I've stopped making doilies anyway. I don't know quite how I stopped but I guess the lunacy of it all sunk into even my dim brain in the end. But there's a part of me that's wants to keep going. They're kind of compelling somehow.
Still, one doily free day at a time.
Pattern: Sea Shell Ruffle
I've managed, more or less successfully to distribute them around the homestead. One here on the side board, another there on the lamp table. A few lying, slightly pointlessly, on the hearth.
But should the need for a dainty ladies tea party arise, one of those with paper thin teacups and delicate sandwiches with the crusts cut off, then I'll be ready. Ready to spring into action with lacy sweet decorative doilies, to delight any innocent unmarried maidens that may turn up to sip a little tea whilst we work on our needlepoint together. Or something.
Pattern: Mother and Daughter (Daughter)
Pattern: Enchanted castle
Pattern: Candy Dish
Pattern (Bottom right): Flower Chain
Just in case you should feel yourself coming down with the fever yourselves, I've added the pattern links beneath each picture for you and the details of the cotton I used is in my last doily post. You never know, you might even have a genuine use for yours!
One more sneaky little thing...
...new patterns coming this way very soon.
S x
