redefiningmysanitys: Fabric Flower Tutorial

Monday, May 23, 2011

Fabric Flower Tutorial

I made up this cute flower pattern for headbands to match my girls Easter dresses. They turned out so cute that as promised I thought I would share them with you!

Start out by cutting your material into 2 inch strips, they need to be about 20 inches long. (you will need 1 strip per flower)

fold your material in half lengthwise placing wrong sides together and iron.

This flower is basically made by shaping your fabric into triangles.

Start out by folding the top over to make a dog ear out of the fabric then iron in place.

Fold fabric over to create a triangle shape and press with iron.

Next you are going to loop your fabric back

and tuck it in between your triangle.

Snug the fabric up into a triangle and press.

Again you are going to loop your fabric back around

this time tuck the fabric behind the triangle

Fold your fabric down and tuck under triangle.

Snug up triangle and press (sorry for the blurry picture)

Continue folding and pressing to make a triangle shape until you run out of fabric.

When you are done it should look something like this.

Take a needle and thread in a similar color to fabric and sew threw the center of the flower catching all the layers to secure them together.

Next take a small piece of felt and a clip and hot glue them to the underside of flower.

I always turn the clip upside down when gluing because when you turn the flower over it will be right side up.

Embellish your flower however you choose. For this flower I chose flat back gems and hot glued them into place.

Now you are done!

This flower has pearl beads sewn into it center.

For this headband I made 3 flower that were the same size. Then I glued them to a fabric headband that I had made. I also used a piece of feather boa behind the flowers to give it that finishing touch.