How to Make Large Fabric Flowers With a Stem

Decorate your home with handmade flowers by using your favorite fabrics to make a flower bouquet. Start with a colorful piece of fabric for each flower that is assembled in a few simple steps and added to a long stem which may help you create a bouquet to place on a dining room table, countertop or outdoor table. Make a bouquet with one color of fabric flower or create a multicolored bouquet with coordinating colors and patterns.

Things You'll Need

• Fabric
• Measuring tape
• Scissors
• Sewing machine
• Wooden dowel or stick
• Hot glue gun
• Floral tape

Instructions

1. Cut a long strip of fabric that is about 5 inches wide and 45 inches long. Fold the strip of fabric in half to make a crease and unfold. Use your sewing machine to make stitches down the center of the fabric where it is creased and refold.

2. Cut a small slit on the open edges of the fabric at every 2.5 inches and use these slits to create scalloped edges. Sew the scalloped edges together at about an inch below the edge, leaving a thread tail of about 2 inches.

3. Wrap the end of fabric without the thread tail around the top of the dowel or stick to cover the top of the stick and create the middle of your rose; secure it with hot glue. Pull the thread tail at the other end of the fabric strip slightly until it begins to gather.

4. Begin wrapping the gathered fabric strip around the dowel to form your fabric flower, gluing it to the dowel after every few inches. Once the flower is formed, wrap the bottom of the flower with floral tape and continue wrapping the entire length of the "stem" with the floral tape.