{Flutterby Bakery} Another Little Project

I have another little project to share today that I worked on while watching the last part of the 10^th Kingdom mini-series I was watching yesterday while I made the fabric bunting (if you missed that post you can read it here).  I had mentioned in that post, I believe, about planning to do a doily bunting along with the fabric one, and I had intended to order doilies from Stewartdollhousecreations.com, because they have the most amazingly detailed tiny little doilies, but there were two issues with that... for one: they didn’t have the style doily I wanted in quite the right size and I wasn’t quite sure how a bigger size or different style doily would look and two: I am impatient, and would have had to wait until payday on Tuesday to order them and then wait for them to get here, so I decided to try my hand at making little doilies myself.  I had seen a tutorial on making dollhouse doilies on Pinterest a while ago, but they were making 1/12 scale doilies so I wasn’t sure how it would work for my 1/48 scale needs for this.  The basic idea was to punch the shape out with circle punch and then use a needle or pin to poke the holes for the design in it.   I tried it first with a plain round hole punch (because that was what I already had), and the punched design part looked promising, but overall I didn’t really like it, so off to Hobby Lobby I went to see if there was such a thing as a scalloped edge punch in that small of a size.  I think the one I found is meant to be a flower, and ideally for a doily it should probably have more bumps {?..... I’m not sure if that’s the right word…. Maybe it would be scallops…. But you get my meaning) that weren’t so deep {?again maybe not quite the right word, but I’m not sure how else to describe what I’m meaning lol), but I thought it would work for this well enough, and the punches were 40% off this week and I was sure I’d use it for something eventually if not for this, so I went ahead and got it (also this awesome pillow that I’ve been wanting since they first got it in -

  – IDK why there’s just something about it I love, I guess it reminds me of the woods and the mountains – and was now on clearance. Yay for still having money on my gift card I got for my Birthday! Lol.

   

 So I got it home and tried it out and, again not quite right probably for a doily if I was going to use it as a regular doily, but I really liked how it looked folded in half for bunting.  And if I need doilies to be used as doilies for something I would absolutely still get them from Stewart Dollhouse Creations.  I actually ended up being a pretty easy project (at least as easy as anything in this scale is lol), a bit tedious, especially since I probably could have put a little more effort into my tools and method, but really pretty easy.

  I started by punching the shapes out of paper….. I used a piece of notebook paper because it was what I could easily find, also it was nice and thin and at first I was just using it to test it out with since it was at hand, but I like the way it worked with that paper so I went with it.  Of course this meant having to try to carefully line the punch up on the paper so that none of the lines ended up on the doily, but that wasn’t a huge deal. {P.S. its a 1/4" punch.... approximately anyway so it would be a 12" doily in scale}

  Then I used a needle (because I couldn’t find my box of straight pins in like 30 seconds and the needles were sitting right out in the open….. like I said some of the tediousness of this probably could have been avoided/improved upon with a little more prep effort lol) to poke the pattern of holes.  I started by doing a circle around the middle and then mini “circles” (at least that was what I was aiming for) in each of the scallops/petals and a hole between each one.

(and yes..... again, with a little more effort I probably could have found something better to put them on to poke the holes.... and therefore probably ended up with more even holes..... but again, this was sitting right in front of me - it's a burlap canvas that had been a first attempt at strawberry handprint art with the little girl I babysit, and this one didn't turn out quite right so we did it over again, so this one was just extra at this point)

  Once all the holes were punched I laid it front side down on my finger and used a head pin (or a piece of wire would have been just as effective…. Probably could have even used the needle I used to punch the holes, but I was afraid I'd somehow manage to poke myself lol) to press across the middle to make a crease to fold the doily over the string, and folded it in half

  After I had several little doilies made and pre-folded I cut a piece of string (I used bakers twine again because it was sitting right in front of me- are you seeing a theme here? lol - , but just pulled apart one of the colored strands of it so that it was a thinner string), and put a dot of glue inside the folded doily and glued it together with the string in the crease, spacing them out appropriately for the scale.

  To put it on the wall I first laid it out to see where I wanted it to go and then, like with the fabric bunting, just put a dot of glue behind the doilies.  For this one I ended up doing every other doily instead of all of them, which I did on the fabric bunting….. with the way I had it laid out it was easier than trying to get to each one and keep it in place and it really only needed every other.

  I’m pretty sure this wall is still going to need a little something more on it, but I haven’t decided just what yet, and I may wait to decide until I see it with the back wall and the furniture in place…. I am going to do some looking on Pinterest though for possible ideas in the meantime. I mocked it up a little bit and took some pics to get a little better idea (for me and for you...)

I also have 2 doilies left on a bit of string, so I need to figure out how I can use them in the attic roombox….. perhaps hanging out of a box or trunk? Anyone have any other suggestions? If so feel free to leave them in the comments!!