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Embellish With Doilies Use crocheted doilies as hip accents for clothes, custom tiles. From "B. Original" episode DBOR-117

If you thought old-fashioned crocheted doilies had no place in your creative lifestyle, think again: Michele Beschen has the tips you need to give these relics of a bygone age new life. The B. Original host shares her inspirations below; keep an eye out for ways you can use doilies to embellish your lifestyle.

Use doilies as a cool clothing embellishment...

Or part of an over-the-top tile treatment.

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	Figure A
	Figure B

Doily-Decorated Shirt

• Use a heavyweight shirt or a light knit top.

• Pin the doily in place an zig-zag stitch to attach, using
  a contrasting thread and a random stitch pattern. Hold
  the doily in place as you feed it through the machine (figure A).

• Add embroidery stitches in a contrasting thread. Sew on beads or sequins and paint with textile paints (figure B). Read the instructions on the textile paints—the colors may need to be set with heat.

• Ready, set, wear!

Doily Tile

• Glue a doily to a tile with decoupage medium or white glue, and seal with more decoupage medium or glue over the top.

• While the glue is still wet, sprinkle with seed beads or bits of polished glass.

• You also can use paint to embellish.