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Upcycled Pretty Purple Placemat
"You can take simple, affordable paper doilies purchased at a craft store and add crochet around them to turn them into one-of-a-kind special handmade placemats for the home. They work up quickly, so these paper and crochet placemats are not only great as projects for your own home, but are also perfect to work up as gifts for others."
Project TypeMake a Project
Time to CompleteUnder an hour
Sewn byHand
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Tricia108
Oct 15, 2017
I can see using cheap cotton doilies from the dollar store and crocheting around them but paper? How do you wash them? That would not work for me. Like many people I am allergic to dust so they have to be washed. The paper would not last.
Weberme
Oct 16, 2017
Tricia108 I agree with you. Although they are pretty if you can not wash them that would be hard and you have all that crochet in them for the placemats to be ruined. I would cry. It is a good idea if you do not plan on washing them.
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