Felt Rose Tutorial

I have been on a major flower and scarf-making kick lately! I made a few flower scarves as {late} Christmas gifts and I've just been finding all kids of other things to embellish these pretty flowers with! They are so easy and so much fun to make! I have always been one to make flowers using my glue gun, but these are such a nice alternative! It is also nice not having to worry about getting burned with hot glue a dozen times while making one flower! 

Materials Needed:

Felt 

scissors

needle and thread

  First thing you need to do is cut 6 circles, descending in size, from your felt. My largest is about 5 inches and smallest is about 1.5 inches. If you are making more than one, you can stack your felt and cut several layers at once. This will save you a lot of time. Keep in mind, the circles do not have to be perfect by any means since you will be cutting on them a little more. 

  Next, cut scallops around the edges of the circles. You can make the scallops deeper of you can just barely cut into the circle. I did a little bit of both. 

  Now, stack your pieces, largest on the bottom and smallest at the very top, with the exception of the least smallest piece. Lay it to the side. You will use it in just a moment. 

 

  Take your needle and thread and come up through the stack of circles, slightly off center. 

  Using your needle and thread, go back down through the stack, about half an inch away, on the other side of the center. 

  Pull very tightly, this will gather the flower up. Repeat this a few times. 

 Now, create an X.  Go up through the circles just like you have been doing, only this time puck your needle through one of the unused sides, about a half inch from the center making a new stitch that will cross the previous one.  Repeat a few times. I like to fold mine when sewing these stitches.

  Before you finish, take your smallest circle (the one you put to the side earlier) and gather it together by folding in half, and then folding it in half again. 

  Stick in in the middle of the flower and sew up from the bottom and "grap" the point with your needle for your next several stitches. Continue this until you are sure it is securely in place and until the flower looks like you want it to look. You can actually "cross" the stitches you have already made and just play around with it until it looks how you want it to look. Trust me, once you start making it, you will understand. It is actually so very easy. 

  Finally, using the same piece of thread you started with, tightly sew a few small stitches to the back of the flower. This is to "close it off" so to speak to make sure your flower is securely stitched together and the thread wont start to come out. 

  There you have it. A pretty rose, just in time for Valentines day! You can use this to make a rose scarf, hair clips, brooches, just use your imagination! If you get addicted to making these, don't say I didn't warn you! ;)

{CHLOE}: EASY (No-Sew) Fabric Flowers

  There are a ton of ways to make pretty fabric flowers, but this is by far the easiest way I have found yet! You can make different variations of this flower by making your cuts different widths or using wider fabric. They are just so much fun! You can use them for brooches, barrettes, headbands, wreaths, etc. I have been making lots of wreaths lately and that is what I have been using them for. Since I have several different types of flowers I will be showing you in the coming weeks, I think each pretty flower needs a name. I will call this one Chloe. 


Here's what you do. Cut a strip of fabric. (Any fabric will work, but I used felt here) The one I used here is about 12in by 4in. 

Fold in half lengthwise and secure with a long strip of hot glue. Then cut almost to the edge down your length of fabric. The cuts I did here are a little over 1/4 of an inch. 

Add a little hot glue along the edge and begin rolling the fabric, adding a little hot glue as you go. 

Continue rolling and glue until it looks like this. Then cut a piece of felt slightly larger than the back of your flower.  

Add some hot glue to the back and place your square of felt there. 

After your glue dries trim around to remove the excess fabric so that it now looks like this.

And your flower is complete! 

You can even give your flower a different look by adding a fabric covered button or combining 2 smaller strips of coordinating fabric.

I have been making lots of flowers lately not only for wreaths, but also to use making Christmas gifts. I have lots more flower tutorials coming soon! 

Coming soon... Gracie! 

No-Sew Rosette~ Fabric Flower

   You will not believe how easy these little flowers are to make! The original tutorial came from sweet Bev over at Flamingo Toes and this is just my version...  You can put them on anything! Picture frames, shoes, scarves, hats, notebooks... the possibilities are endless!

          Start with a strip of fabric about 1 1/2″ to 2″ wide. Make a small knot in one end.

   Now, just hold the knot in your left hand and with your right hand, begin twisting the strip and wrapping it around around the knot.

   Continue wrapping and twisting, using your left hand to hold the rose in place as you go. Depending on the size of your flower, you may want to use a little fabric glue or your hot glue gun as you go, to hold it together a little better.

   Clip your fabric when you get the rose the size you want and tuck the end underneath. Glue the rose to a felt circle slightly smaller than the rose. This will hold all the folds in place.

You can leave them as-is, or you can dress them up a little with buttons or beads...