Vintage Doily Banner

If you're like me, you just can't stay away from those boxes and bins of vintage doilies and linens at garage and estate sales.  Here's a fun, simple way to use them up!

For this banner I actually found 6 of these multi-color doilies and two of these medallion doilies but I plan to make more of these using vintage linens and mismatched doilies as well.

I cut these in 'half'. Because they had an uneven amount of 'points', one doily piece is large, the other small which works out great for this project.

The medallion doilies were cut apart creating these smaller pieces.

I have lots of these packages of old quilt binding but you of course could use new binding.  I used single-fold, wide and folded that in half and ironed it to create the 'pocket' for the doilies.

I pinned the doilies inside the binding, tucking all of the little frayed edges inside.

Then I just stitched the binding, catching in the edges.

Since there were so many little 'frayed' edges, I used a small zig-zag stitch as I felt that would catch all of those pieces neatly inside the binding.

 I thought this added a nice, summery look to our bedroom.

I simply tucked the ends behind the sconces and used a decorative tack to center it on the window frame.

So many possibilities with all of the vintage doilies and linens out there!  Also a great way to use linens that may have stains or other damage but still have beautiful embroidery or images on them.  
What creative uses have you found for vintage linens?