Today was your lucky day :D:D:D

Do a search! There was a gorgeous hankie quilt on here a couple of weeks ago. If I find it, I'll repost with the link.

Elenor Burns from Quilt in a Day. com has a whole show on this. Lovely. So did Sewing with Nancy .com shows.

Ohhhhh how wonderful. You can made some pretty quilts using those old hankies and decorative cloths. I'd take the hankies and applique them onto a solid background square and then put them altogether.Maybe even add a little sashing around each one. Gorgeous! My sister collects those kinds of things. It's her weakness, she says. You've got a treasure.

Oh My!! I am drooling. Cindy Brick has a book out called "Hanky Panky" with lots of small quilt patterns and easy instructions. (www.cindybrick.com) Check her web site out. Have fun. :thumbup:

you can go here and it will give you ideas to make things with these. They are all beautiful by the way!

http://antiques.about.com/cs/quiltte.../aa053003.html

Oh my... I have been everywhere looking for old hankies.... I have paid up to 5.00 each for some. Going to make a hankie quilt. You will have a great time finding stuff to make with them. I took one and folded it like an envelope stuffed batting in it and added scent, sewed together and put in closet for nice scent. It was so cute.
Have fun!

I have a bunch of beautiful old hankies also.

One thing I did with mine is I made kitchen curtains out of beautiful all white, embroidered hankies. The curtains are light and breazy and pretty.

I made the lower half of the window curtains by just whip stitching them together by hand and hung them with clip curtain rings. Then I made valences for the top of the windows with hankies that had just an embroidered or lacy section in the corner and folded these in half diagonally so the fancy section shows. I overlapped these over the top curtain rod.

They look so cool and very different.

I adore vintage tablecloths. You are a lucky duck!

Hanky Panky is the book for you............My quilt guild just had our christmas party last thursday, and my secret pal got me a couple dozen hankies, and a few other surprise gifters' gave me a couple as a "going away present". So I too have several. But you have a "STASH".