Homemade Lace Appliqué Tank! (and more!)

I. love. lace. appliqués.

I want to use them on everything.

And I was thinking about it the other day, why not use the lace you have to make appliqués?

So I dug around in my stash, and found several options, and started snipping away, cutting out the flower shapes!

To make an appliqué out of one:

1) Cut out a square of Heat Bond, and a square of lace, large enough to cut around your flower.

2) Lay the lace face down, with the Heat Bond on top of it, paper side up. Press for 2 seconds on medium heat.

3) Cut around your flower shape, and then peel off the paper backing.

4) Lay the appliqué on your shirt, and press for 8-10 seconds.

That's all the directions call for, but I also like to give it a few hand stitches for security.

Then you're done!

I love the possibilities of this!

I'd love to see a shirt with lots of different lace flowers appliquéd on! (Why didn't I think of that before writing this post....)

Of course, you're certainly not limited to clothing. I had lots of fun with these! :o)

I stacked some different sized flowers on top of each other, and added a pearl, then I glued it to one of Paige's hairclips.....

I glued some tiny little lace flowers to earring posts....

And used a jumpring to attatch a large flower to a chain! (my favorite!)

And don't forget-you can paint them, too! I spray painted these, but for clothing you could use fabric paint, or dye!

I just love this discovery, because a yard of lace would give you sooo many appliqués! But if you only needed a few, you could just buy a couple of inches of lace, and it would be really inexpensive.

Yay for inexpensive! :o)