How to Make Fabric Hydrangea Flowers

Making fabric hydrangea flowers is simple once you get the hang of the technique. Fabric hydrangea flowers can be used for many things, from hair findings to clothing embellishment. Fabric hydrangea flowers can also be used in home decoration and as table centerpieces. Making hydrangea flowers yourself is often less expensive than buying them and many find making fabric flowers relieves a bit of stress in their lives.

Things You'll Need

• Paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• 1 rectangle green felt, 9"x12"
• 1 rectangle pink, white or blue felt, 9"x12"
• Needle
• Coordinating thread

Instructions

1. On your piece of paper, draw a tear-drop shape, approximately one inch tall and one-half-inch wide. This will be your pattern for your hydrangea petals. Draw a leaf approximately two inches tall and one inch wide. This will be the pattern for your leaves. Cut both patterns out.

2. For each flower you will make, cut six to seven petals. Depending on how many flowers you want in each hydrangea bunch, multiply the number of flowers by the number of petals. Using your petal pattern, cut that number of petals.

3. Each flower will also need at least one leaf. Using your leaf pattern, cut one leaf for each flower in the hydrangea bunch.

4. Lay your petals side by side on a flat surface, with all of the bottoms (wide ends) lined up touching. Using your threaded needle, sew once in and once out each petal at the wide end, so the petals are all strung together on the thread. Pull the thread taut, gathering the flower petals together. Tie a knot at the end, so the petals form a flower. Cut thread.

5. Using coordinating thread, take one leaf and sew it to the bottom of the flower. Tie a knot. Your first flower is done.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each flower in the bunch.

7. Using coordinating thread to match leaves, sew your finished flowers together forming a snowball shaped bunch. This is a completed hydrangea flower bunch.

Tips & Warnings

• If you do not want hydrangea flower bunches but would rather use single flowers, you are done after step 6.

• You can add as many as three leaves to each hydrangea flower, depending on your taste. Simply use the same pattern as the first leaf and sew the leaves on each flower separately.