Making Fabulous Fabric Flowers

Yesterday I worked on making fabric flowers for my youngest step daughter's upcoming wedding.   They're pretty easy to make & go fast once you get the hang of it.

 

You have to use synthetic fabric, so it curls when it's heated.  

 

Cut circles of fabric in various sizes & cut 4-5 slits around the edges to make the petals.

 

Heat the edges of the fabric over a candle to curl up the edges.  I caught a few on fire but we'll just say it "adds character" to the flowers.  (Clyde gets credit for these pics.  He says "I'll take some pictures so you can put it on your thing" )

 

After they're heated up & all curled.

 

Stack 'em on top of each other

 

And sew them together. 

 

My stitches aren't neat but they do the trick.

 

Then I used a hot glue gun to glue a little piece of sparkly ribbon to middle.  The only hard part is to not get strings of glue over everything...that stuff is messy! Or maybe it's just me.

 

One done!

 

 

And repeat....

 

 

Meanwhile our neighbor's dog came blowing through our cat door to come visit and play with the fabric scraps on the floor.  Say hi to Skookum.

 

 

The final pile of flowers.