Vintage Hankies...

This bag of vintage handkerchief's I have been collecting for about 10 years now and some are from my late Grandmother, some from Mic's late Grandmother, some from antique stores and markets etc...basically when I seen some, I bought them. Now the plan originally was to make a quilt out of these vintage hankies for our bed and something to pass on to our boys and their families. Well, the main criteria for these hankies was that they had to be white and preferably have white embroidery on them, but beggars can't be choosers and some I have found are coloured etc, but most of them are white.

They have been tucked away in my fabric closet for some time and I found them again recently and thought it was silly to not do something with them, so.....
I thought I would make some cushion covers for our sofa and still have some of this wonderful herringbone wool left from Christmas time and the white looks so fresh with this grey...great for our cooler weather at present.
I thought I would use this one which has an N embroidered on it first, only problem being, they are so thin I had to back it with some white linen to give it strength first.
The detailing is just beautiful!

I also had to sew right near the edge so I wouldn't loose the pattern on the very end of the hankie.
This is the finished product.

I am so happy with how it turned out as I had no creative inspiration this weekend. I am extremely sore from a hard workout on Saturday and we have just been spending time with the boys and each other which has been lovely. I did start some panels for the folding screen I mentioned a while back, but as I said before, I am just not inspired at the moment.

So this is about it at the moment. I like it though and it is nice to see our families linens being shown.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday.

Ness xx