Continue to do this until the entire hoop is done. Using the threaded needle, pull the thread to wind around the loop of the doily and then around the hoop. Now thread a needle with 3 threads of embroidery floss. The goal of this is to make the doily stay in place. Using 3 threads of embroidery floss together, tie the doily to the hoop in four different places, one at the top, one at the bottom and on each side. Use the hoop that does not have the clamp on it. You don’t even need a DIY doily pattern, though you’re certainly welcome to craft your own.įirst you will need to “break” apart the embroidery hoop. Dreamcatchers make lovely decorative items for kids or adults with boho style, and you can re-use lace doilies and embroidery hoops from other crafts for a simple, fun doily dreamcatcher. In my instance, I used a 8″ doily and an 8″ wood embroidery hoop for my daughter’s dream catcher.

You can also add other items like feathers and beads to dress up the dreamcatcher if you’d like! Even twine, burlap, yarn, or extra ribbons can act as extra vintage embellishments.

I thought you might enjoy learning how I made my daughter’s dream catcher.įor this craft, you will need a doily, an embroidery hoop, white embroidery floss and several lengths of coordinating ribbon. And if they wake up at night with a bad dream, I can point to the catcher and say everything will be okay, that the dreamcatcher will catch their bad dreams and that the bad dream will go away by morning. Now when I say good night, I can point to the dream catcher by their bed and say sweet dreams. Since then, I’ve always been intrigued by them.įast forward many, many years…now that I have kids, I thought it would be a great idea to create a dream catcher for each of my kids. So by hanging the dream catcher above your bed, only good dreams will come to it’s owner and bad dreams will disappear.

Good dreams are clear and will always find the way to the dreamer, however bad dreams will get confused and get caught in the web of the catcher. The thought behind them is that all dreams occur at night. She explained to me that dream catchers were originally created by Native Americans to catch bad dreams. Since I’ve never seen one before, I asked her what is was. When I was in college, my college roommate had a dream catcher by the head of her bed.

How to make the original dream catcher