All the doilies were there, and the magnificent lace centerpiece which Mrs. Rossiter had at various times called on me to admire.
In a small home, where no great formality is observed, well chosen doilies may be used on all occasions, instead of table cloths.
By this expedient you suppress one large item on the laundry bill, the care of the doilies in such cases falling to the waitress.
When this style of table is used, the wood instead of a cloth, is our background, and a "runner" with doilies of old Italian lace takes the place of linen.
A girl who fed doilies into a mangle complained that constantly watching a moving apron made her eyes 'sore,' so that she could not see distinctly and sometimes fed in several doilies at a time without noticing it.
As will be noted, doilies have been used in place of a table cloth for this luncheon.
A table cloth, as will be noted, is used, for a cloth is always preferable to doilies for dinner.
The small plates on which the frappe glasses are served should be piled on the table with doilies (linen always) between the plates.
Unless you are entertaining guests to the number of a hundred or more, never use paper doilies at a formal afternoon tea!
The plate doilies indicate the covers when a bare table is laid.
Use doilies in preference to a cloth, and a centrepiece of lace, or embroidered linen and lace.
Put the central vase on a lace centrepiece laid over pink silk, and if your doilies are of lace they, too, may be lined with pink for this one occasion.
Illustration] Lay the table with lace doilies over pink silk; have several vases of pink roses on the table, and have all the sandwiches, cakes, and ices in heart shapes.
Myra Gillis had thirty-seven doilies when she was married and I'm determined I shall have as many as she had.
But I'm going to begin crocheting doilies tomorrow.
The tables were snowily linened, there were doilies in blue and white, and the centrepiece on each table was a glass dish filled with small bunches of splendid blue and white grapes.
If possible use orange crepe paper for doilies and mats.
Have smaller wreaths around the bonbon and nut dishes, and mats of leaves laid under the plates and dishes and used for doilies under the finger bowls.
In the dining room the polished table is daintily set withdoilies under the olive and almond dishes, and under the plates and glasses.
The table was laid with the doilies and fern dish of every day, but a festive look was given to it when yellow sprays of genesta were stuck among the ferns.
For the meal, the strawberries were laid on small plates on paper doiliesin a circle, with the hulls turned in; in the middle lay a little heap of powdered sugar.
I don't know why it is, but lay a table with pretty white doilies and put on violets, and somehow it has a most gorgeous appearance.
You lay the table in the same way as for breakfast and luncheon, with doilies instead of a tablecloth; suppers are really the very same thing as luncheons, you have the same things to eat.
Just such a shawl my maiden aunts wore in Connecticut, just such doilies were on their rocking chairs, just such flowered carpets were in their parlours.
Insertions and borders of torchon or other heavy lace make a breakfast cloth suitable for the most elaborate occasion, and separate doilies may easily be made to match.
The small doiliesare easily washed, and fresh ones are possible every morning--an assured gain in the way of daintiness.
See that centerpiece and doilies are laid at even distance.
The word beautiful in 1905 is no longer shut in with its ancient rim of hills, or with a show of sunsets, or with bouquets and doilies and songs of birds.
Let it be shut in with its rim of hills--the word beautiful--its show of sunsets and its bouquets and its doilies and its songs of birds.
But ribbon on sandwiches is an anachronism--so is all the flummery of silk and laces, doilies and doo-dads that so often bewilder us.
Serve in tall footed glasses, set on your finestdoilies in your prettiest plates.
The doilies were in a smaller drawer, all in piles, too, and the pretty centrepieces were fastened around stiff paper made into rolls.
Three of these doilies are designed so that the decoration will show even should a tumbler or a finger bowl be placed upon them, and if six or a larger number of doilies are desired for a set, repeat these three patterns.
Corticelli Filo Silk alone should be used in the figures of the doilieseven for the cross-barring, though the scallops and black lines should be of the Etching Silk.
Doilies pinned to a board or frame may be dried in a minute by holding them in front of a register, and thus treated they should need no pressing with an iron.
If desired the entire work on the centerpiece may be done with Corticelli Etching Silk, and the effect will be really very beautiful, and novel as well, but the figures of the doilies are too small for such treatment.
Persian Floss is used extensively for the buttonhole edges of doilies and centerpieces, first padding the scallops with a few stitches as shown in Fig.
Every needleworker usually has several choice doilies that when not in use should be kept in some clean place where they will remain smooth and flat.
These fringed doilies are imported goods of fine quality.
The centerpiece and doilies may be embroidered with good effect in simple outline or rows of outline, known as the "Bulgarian stitch.
Heavy colorings are more and more to be urged for centerpieces and doilieswhich are to be placed under gas light.
Needlework was not a passion with her, but it was understood in the Carling household that in course of time a set of table doilies of elaborate devices in colored silks would be forthcoming.
They were sitting as described on a former occasion, and the young woman was engaged upon the second (perhaps the third, or even the fourth) of the set of doilies to which she had committed herself.
The circles can be tied together with ribbon and the doilies lie flat between.
For formal luncheon or dinner, finger bowls on doilies and plates are brought in, one at a time, when removing the main dish of the dessert.
The finger bowls and doilies are then set aside and the plate used for bonbons and nuts, which are passed on a tray.
An informal way is to pass finger bowls on plates and doilies before the dessert course.
Doilies with pads underneath them, lunch or breakfast cloths, or table runners (see Figure 33) may be used instead of the table-cloth.
The center with doilies to match is pretty and desirable.
And then there must be some doiliesto overlay the Canton-flannel-covered asbestos mats for use under hot dishes.
Small, fringed napkins ordoilies on and overhanging the shelves help to impart an air of daintiness and make a pretty setting for the dishes.
Centers and largedoilies are best disposed of by rolling over a round stick well padded.
The plate doilies should be at least 9 inches wide, with smaller corresponding ones on which to set the glass of water or the hot cup, and an extra one or two for small dishes for relishes and the like that may be kept on the table, etc.
The table is laid the same, except that linen doilies are used in preference to table-cloths.
ABOUT THE TABLE Often the informal luncheon is served on the bare table, making use of numerous lace or linen doilies instead of the usual table-cloth.
If tea tables are not available, one large table may serve the purpose, but it also must be covered with small doilies at each cover instead of one large table-cloth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doilies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
