How to Make Fabric Flower Blooms
Fabric flowers offer a variety of advantages over the real thing. They do not wilt -- even on the hottest days. Because they last indefinitely, you and your guests can take them home as treasured mementos of a special day. Unlike real flowers, fabric flowers can come in any color you wish, from traditional pinks, purples and blues to zebra stripes or polka dots. Use the fabric blooms you create to decorate for a special event, or simply to bring some permanent, undying color to your home.
Things You'll Need
- Light, cotton fabric
- Scissors
- Needle
- Thread
- Glue
- False stem (optional)
- Button (optional)
Instructions
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Tear the fabric across its width to form strips. These can be shorter and narrower for small, tight flowers or longer and wider for larger, droopier flowers. You may have to snip the edge of the fabric with scissors at the location where you wish to tear it. You need one strip for each flower you wish to create.
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Thread a needle. The thread you use need to correspond in color to the fabric. For all-pink fabric, for example, use pink thread. If you are using blue fabric with yellow polka dots, use blue thread. Knot the thread.
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Sew through one edge of one of your strips of fabric from one end to the other. Stay close to the edge. When you reach the other end of the strip, pull the thread slowly but firmly to gather the fabric on the thread.
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Fold the gathered strip of fabric in half, with the two ends touching face-to-face. Sew these ends together. You will have a scrunched loop of fabric. Trim off any excess fabric in the seam you just sewed, if necessary.
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Insert a fake stem into the middle of the fabric flower, if you wish, and glue it into place. Alternatively, finish the flower by gluing a decorative element like a button into the center.
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