I learned how to make these beautiful fabric flowers and now I'm obsessed!
These are burned-edge flowers and you can make them into pins or headbands or hair clips or purse clips or shoe clips or cards. The possibilities are endless!
The first step is cutting coordinating fabric circles of graduating sizes from 100% Polyester fabric. The polyester fabric singes well along the edges.Light a candle, and carefully singe the edge of a circle, while rotating it until the whole circle is singed. Trust me on this- it sounds scary, but it's not- just try it and you'll see that the edges will curl up pretty quickly. (I tried to get a picture, but burning flammable fabric with one hand and taking a picture with the other proved to be a really dumb thing to do:)
Your circles will look sort of like these.
Layer the circles together graduating from smallest to biggest. Find a pearl, charm, bead or button you like. Then, using a needle and thread, just sew the whole flower together in the center while attaching the bead.
I made most of mine into pins by hot-gluing craft pins (Michael's) to the back, but I have seen these types of flowers on headbands and hair clips too. Good luck and have fun!
3 comments:
Yay! I started following your blog when we did the puppet theatres. I am so happy that you did this post! I've been wanting to make some of these but didn't have a tutorial yet, so thank you:)
gorgeous! I was just looking at a headband with these on them the other day thinking about how to do this :)
I found your burned flowers and FELL IN LOVE. I featured them in my craft blog at imnomartha.blogspot.com. Thanks for such a GREAT idea.
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