Valentines Day Crafts – Table Runner & Vintage Dishes
What do you get when you cross some leftover zig-zag fabric, with a bunch of darling doilies and hankies? A sweet little table runner, of course!
We used it on our Valentines Day tablescape, but I wanted to photograph it without all the V-Day “stuff” on it for this post so you could really see what it looked like…
I got the hankies on Etsy (10 for $12)…
…and the doilies came from a local flea market for $1-$2 each.
I started by cutting the base of my runner out of a piece of leftover zig-zag fabric I had. The front side of the fabric was a little too dark…
…so I just flipped it over and used the muted side for my runner. After that, I played around with my hankies and doilies until I got an arrangement I liked, and then I used a teeny-tiny bit of hot glue on the edges of everything to secure it all to the zig-zag fabric.
I ran out of time before our V-Day shoot, but eventually, I’d like to sew everything together and back it with another piece of fabric, too.
It was a really fun project to play around with, and I’m sort of obsessed with putting doilies and hankies on everything now- ha!
And speaking of fun projects, while I was out doily shopping at one of our local flea markets (J&G), I also picked up some mismatched vintage dishes for our shoot…
I only paid a dollar or two for each piece, and I wanted to show that by just mixing in some whimsical/colorful pieces like these with your plain white dishes, you can create a really fun tablescape.
This $2 plate was my absolute favorite find of the day…
I used it underneath one of our plain white salad plates…
…and then to really mix things up, I used one more patterned vintage dinner plate/white salad plate combo across from that one- and then I used two plain white dinner plates, topped with two vintage/patterned salad plates, on the other two ends of the table. It made for a really fun, eclectic look!
EGC and I wanted to come up with craft projects/decorating ideas that were easy, inexpensive, and that could easily be altered to fit any other holiday, or any ol’ day of the year. We’ve got one more post to share before we wrap up our “EGC meets TLC” series, and I look forward to sharing it with you tomorrow!
tagged with: table runner, vintage dishes.
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37 Responses to Valentines Day Crafts – Table Runner & Vintage Dishes
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Myra @ My Blessed Life says:Feb 5, 2012 at 8:33 am
Oh my gracious! I’m in LOVE with vintage linens and your table knocks the ball out of the park! Completely swoony, my friend!
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Ellen says:Feb 5, 2012 at 8:42 am
I have several old suitcases absolutely full of all kinds of doilies, hankies, runners, mantel scarves, you name it…. I just love vintage linens and feel it’s my mission to save them from the landfill…
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jennnifer rizzo says:Feb 5, 2012 at 8:43 am
Very super cute project Layla! It looks really pretty all pieced together. None of my plates ,match at all. I think it’s so pretty to have them mixed and matched and it’s so much easier when the kids chip one
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shaunna says:Feb 5, 2012 at 9:08 am
lovely. Makes me wanna go handkerchief crazy in Ava’s room. Love it!
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DIY Show Off says:Feb 5, 2012 at 11:56 am
It’s beautiful, Layla. I love the mix of subtle modern with all of the vintage lovelies!
Roeshel
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Layla says:Feb 5, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Thank you, Roeshel! I love a good flashy/flea mix, too!
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Tanya @ Sunday Baker says:Feb 5, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Very pretty and I love that it’s thrifty too. Bright and spring-like, makes me smile
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Virginia says:Feb 5, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Love love love the chevron pattern combined with the lace & flowers! So gorgeous and super creative! Well done!
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Gale says:Feb 5, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Love love LOVE it all! (and the hot gluing made me laugh – I’ve been known to do that when I’m in a hurry!!)
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megan says:Feb 5, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Layla- I too love Vintagey things- is that a real word
? Love the runner- it is really sweet. I too have made many a runner in my day. I especially like how you embellished yours- GREAT JOB! -
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Jen says:Feb 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm
I absolutely love your blog! I can’t wait until I open my feed reader every morning to see if you have added a post
I am drooling over the place setting you did for this shoot (and cannot get over how creatively you used that gold edged plate). I am super jealous of the stack of cute dinnerware you got for this shoot, but where do you store it all? You get such beautiful items for your shoots, but do you really keep it all? I imagine a storage locker filled to the brim with cute plates and vases
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Brittany Lauren says:Feb 12, 2012 at 5:46 pm
That is so sweet! I love the 1963 plate – what a lovely vintage dish
You are the creative one! what a wonderful vision – and follow through. Good job!!! Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful Sunday