Hankie crafts

Subject: Hankie crafts Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:48 pm

I absolutely adore vintage handkerchiefs. I have about 100, of which some are from ebay lots I bought, but most are my grandmother's and great-grandmothers. I came across a really cute website selling inexpensive hankie crafts today. It's got some great ideas, along with a book that some of us hankie lovers will want for sure.

http://www.thecalicocat.com/hankies.htm

Karla

Subject: Re: Hankie crafts Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:52 pm

What a cute site...I, too, love hankies.

Age : 41 Joined : 27 Feb 2007 Posts : 1 Name : Anita

Oh-Oh... How can I resist ordering from this site?!?

Some of my very first memories are of my Grandmother, and her hankies... My very first "hankie craft" was her showing me how to fold and roll a hankie into two babies in a blanket... :-)

Subject: Re: Hankie crafts Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:47 am

I folded some of my grandmother's embroidered hankies into four and ironed them; then you sew the edges together neatly, leaving a small gap. Then fill with dried herbs and petals and stitch the last bit and you have a really pretty sachet for scenting your clothes-drawers.

I spent a wonderful long weekend at a cottage I was house-sitting, with two very good friends who stood by me in a time of need. Later in the year I was back there again and collected herbs and flowers and dried them - I made three sachets from hankies and sent two of them to my friends so we all have a memento of the lovely "Time out" holiday we had together.

That inspired me to spend a cousin's wedding afternoon surreptitiously filling my pockets with rosemary leaves and rosepetals and lavender heads from the beautiful gardens where the reception was. I begged a rosebud from the bouquet from the bride's mother afterwards, and then embroidered the date onto a white silk square and made a sachet filled with my cousin's wedding-reception summer afternoon. She loved it, and it was so simple and easy - and made me really think about how the most-appreciated gifts are often the ones that cost least in money but more in thoughtfulness and love.

laura