Welcome! Velkomin! Wilkommen! Bienvenue!





Friday, January 6, 2012

DIY: how to make a lace doily lantern

I must admit, I have a thing for lace-doilies... when I go to thriftstores I always keep my eyes open for them and often they follow me home, even if I don´t know what I´m going to do with them. They just look too pretty to leave them there!
Last winter I went to a kind of fabric-factory-outlet and found some really pretty ones and I decided I wanted to make some lanterns with them... well... one year later I finally did it! And that´s what I did:

You need:
1. Lace doilies...
I used those:



2. Hot glue:

3. Jars:

What to do:
This is so simple everyone can do this... you should try it with your kids!!! Well, after you´ve cut the doilies to the right size, you hot glue it to the jar. It´s enough to put only 1 vertical line of glue on the jar to make the ends stick to the glass...


1 doily was so thin I had to use 2 strings of it to cover the glass... I made it stick with 2 lines of glue... a horizontal around the glass and 1 vertical line:



This is the result: we love, love, love it...




6 comments:

  1. What a great idea, and the lanterns are lovely!!
    Thanks for the instructions on how to make them :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Flottar krukkur.
    Er einmitt alltaf að svipast um sjálf eftir dúllum og dúkum þegar ég fer á nytjamarkaði en það gengur voða hægt hjá mér.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Geggjað :) Svo er líka hægt að kaupa blúndu-borða í Rúmfó, ekki dýrir.

    *knúsar

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hilde: thank you! :-)
    ElínEllan: takk fyrir... ég er sammála Dossu... mér hefur fundist auðveldast að kaupa blúnuborða í Rúmfó eða einhverjum efnabúðum - hinsvegar þarf dálitla þolinmæði og reglulegar heimsóknir í nytjamarkaðina til að finna gamla blúndudúka/dúllur...
    Dossa: takk fyrir! Þetta var svo skemmtó... núna fá allir vinir sem bjóða mér í kaffi einhvernvegin kósíkerti sem þakklætisvott!

    ReplyDelete
  5. uh..die sind hübsch..ich habe nur leider keine Spitze zur Hand...dafür sammle ich aber schon Konservengläser und Breigläschen, die man sicher dafür hervorragend benutzen kann! :)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Vielen herzlichen Dank!!! Konservengläser und Breigläschen kann man doch immer gut gebrauchen, oder?

    ReplyDelete