It's been ages since I posted a tutorial! I love how this turned out, I just had to share! I made this HUGE fabric flower today to perk up my outfit for our upcoming family portraits. It turned out to be a huge lotus looking flower. Well, my edges are little more rounded than a lotus, but it was the first thing that popped into my head looking at it. I went around the house sticking them on everything.
Make a bold statement by adding it to a scarf...
I even put one on the wreath of my front door....
Materials
1/4 yard of georgette fabric
basic sewing supplies (sewing machine, thread)
hot glue/hot glue gun
Optional: broach pin, hair pin
Tutorial
Start with about 1/4 yard of georgette type fabric. It's a sheer light weight fabric with a dull finish.
Measure out 3 inches on the selvage edge and make a small cut.
Rip the fabric the rest of the way. You will end up with a long strip.
Fold fabric over itself with a 2 inch width.
Continue to fold all the fabric till the end.
Round off the top by starting the bottom of your cut 1 1/2 inches down. Unroll your fabric.
Set your sewing machine to the tightest tension, and the longest stitch length.
Sew 1/4 inch from the straight edge. Your fabric will start to produce a tight ruffle. I think it's a good idea to backstitch at the beginning an when you get to the end so none of your ruffle comes loose.
Add a dab of hot glue to the beginning of your ruffle, and start rolling, gluing as you go.
Try to keep the edges as even as possible when wrapping.
The bottom of your flower should look like this when you done gluing.
Glue or sew the backing of your choice!
YOUR DONE!
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16 comments:
soo pretty! I would love for you to come link up to Craft Couture Monday! :)
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Have a great day!
looks absolutely lovely - off to find some georgette - I love that word...
very pretty! thanks for sharing.
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [05 Apr 01:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria
Very cute and so easy to do! I hopped here from Craft Couture and am following now :) Stop by sometime... Sophie @ http://babesandsages.blogspot.com
Lovely! I linked to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-make-a-fabric-lotus-flower/2011/04/04/
--Anne
Beautiful! I love how delicate and airy this turned out--gorgeous!
YAY!! I love it! So glad to see you here! I think I might do one of these for my cute sundress I made last summer! OR even make some new dresses this Spring! Actually wanted to make a few more dresses again from your tutorial...LOVE how mine came out!! xoxox Nicole!! Hope your photography is doing well!!
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Thank you so much! Just Beautiful!
very cute and easy to do fantastic tutorial.
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Outstanding stuff. I am always looking for new ideas for artificial flowers. This is beautiful and unique.Thanks for explaining it step by step.
SOOOO beautiful and what a gorgeous image, LOVE your ideas!!!!!
thanks for the tutorial. beautiful flower xxx
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