![]() I plan to make small gifts of brooch pins at least, but I can think of lots of other ways to use these for holiday decorations and gifts, and I think I’ll be making a lot more of these fabric flowers in red. These will be useful during the holiday season. You can sew both flower layers from red fabric and make these into poinsettias. Small brooch pins work best, in my opinion, as these can then easily pin across a ponytail elastic or even a small barrette, not to mention on bags, lapels, hats, and etc. Then sew the whole thing to a brooch pin, hair elastic, bag, or anything else. ![]() Image shows a person with cut-out templates and fabric for a sewing project. Sew the button down through both layers of fabric flower. Keeping fabric pieces together and in place after cutting for pressing. Sew the leaves onto the back of the bottom flower layer.Ĭhoose a matching or contrasting button or use a bit of embroidery for the flower center. Serger thread is made differently, it’s purposely fuzzier, and will not work. DON’T use serger thread in your regular sewing machine. Then I sewed them with less gathers than the flower petals. Stashbusting: if you have a lot of weird bits of fabric you want to use up, pick an easy pattern, cut and sew them all at once. Many machines sew knit fabrics just fine with all purpose thread, for example, but it can be fun to try woolly nylon thread to hem knits if you want to play with some professional hemming techniques. Instead of folding the green circles into quarter circles, I folded the circles in half, and then thirds. I made my leaves slightly differently than the flower petals. If you’d like to add one or a couple leaves, do that now. Once you have both, sew them together with the smaller flower on top. Now sew another flower, perhaps using a different sized circle. Do this on both sides, then tie and cut your thread. Sew the last petal to the first, then neaten center.Ĭontinue to sew the raw centers of the petals tightly to each other, to tighten and neaten the inner edge of the flower center. You can cut your circles using an Accuquilt Go, a compass, or with the help of an Olfa circle rotary cutter. If you would like to make leaves, cut these from slightly larger circles than you used for your largest flower petals. You may choose to cut seven rather than five for the bottom layer these will be the larger circles if you are using two sizes. You may cut five circles each of two different sized circles, or you can use all same sized circles. To make these double flowers, you need ten or twelve circles of fabric, a strong hand needle, thread, and a button for the flower center. While these aren’t the real thing, I sure felt happy while creating these fabric flowers and thinking of this old song and Grandmother Lucy. Of all the songs she taught us, my favorite was always this one: While making these, I had a sweet memory of my great grandmother, Lucy, who was a Sunday school teacher and loved nothing more than hearing children sing. You could sew these directly onto a ponytail elastic, barrette, headband, clip, clothing, or bag, but I opted to make them more versatile by sewing them onto small brooch pins, which I can then pin on my hair elastic, hat, or bag. I kept my favorite of the bunch for my hair, and the rest are for gifts. And that’s why, when I loved the flower I made for her bag, I kept going and made a bunch of these pretty flowers. ![]() Yes, I’m getting a head start on my Christmas making now. ![]()
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