My great-grandmother used to sit and crochet doilies for hours. I would watch as the thread moved across her fingers and hooks. She wouldn't even have to look down at what she was doing. It amazed me because I don't have great finger dexterity. I knew I wanted to incorporate one of her doilies into a handmade dream-catcher to hang in my bedroom.
I gathered a ton of supplies for this project because I wasn't sure the direction I wanted to go until I got started. I had a 14" doily and 6" doily. I bought a variety of sizes of embroidery hoops to use for the circle of the dream-catcher, various beads, yarn, jute, leather cord, cord end clamps, and ribbon.
To start, I wrapped the inner circle of the embroidery hoop with the turquoise yarn.
Next, I threaded each point of the doily to the hoop- spacing evenly as I work around the hoop.
Then, I wrapped 3 of the 4" hoops with more yarn in the color scheme of my bedding.
I found some video tutorials on making a dreamcatcher to figure out the threading of the web.
The web was quite a bit easier than I had anticipated. I spaced the outer loops around the hoop at 1.5" apart on the 4" hoops and then thread through the center until making my way to the middle. If you want to add beads, add before each loop around the center (as shown below).
Using leather cording, I attached beads and feathers to the ends of the hoops. Cord end crimps were the perfect part for attaching the feathers to the leather cord.
Leather cord and wooden beads attached the dream-catchers to create one large piece. The feathers I used are feathers we have gathered on hikes, so they hold a lot of meaning to me.
I really love how the dreamcatcher turned out and that I made it using my great-grandmother's doily as the focus.
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