Linen Ring Pillow

It’s only fitting to present the symbols of a new union on a beautiful “something old”: a pillow embellished with an heirloom handkerchief or another vintage linen. A few stitches keep everything in place and can be snipped later. If you don’t have a vintage piece, you can find one at a flea market. Ring-Pillow How-To For a square handkerchief (ours is ten inches), you’ll need a square pillow, just big enough for the handkerchief’s corners to slightly overlap at the center (the one above is six inches). Place pillow on wrong side of linen as shown; fold corners in, overlapping them. Hand-sew middle of a satin ribbon to pillow center, sewing through linen’s corners and pillow; use two or three stitches (when ready to remove linen, cut the thread). A few stitches in the center will also secure a small doily (4) or cocktail napkin (6) to the pillow’s top. Or you can make the pillow itself from vintage fabric (3). To attach rings, thread onto ribbon and tie a bow.
Vintage linens come in many styles:
1 handkerchief with openwork
2 floral-print handkerchief
3 embroidered fabric
4 doily with openwork
5 monogrammed handkerchief
6 embroidered cocktail napkin