DIY tutorial--fabric flower/fabric leaf

Nukke

Hey guys !  I know some of you wanted to see a tutorial for my DIY fabric flowers, and so I found this for you:

http://houseof3designdistrict.blogspot.com/2010/02/rolled-fabric-flower-tutorial-using.html

This tutorial is WAY easier than mine!  For example, I sewed the two cut edges of the fabric pieces together, pulling the thread through the fabric to force a little ruffle (know what I mean?).  And I sewed the fabric onto the felt as I rolled it.  After the sewing there was a lot of messy sewing thread on the back of the felt, so I cut another felt circle and just used some white elmers glue and glued a second piece over the original.  That made the felt thicker, sightlier, and stiffer (because of the glue).  If you're puting a pin on the back of the flower, that will keep it stiff enough (I attached mine with hot glue).  But if you're attaching the flower to a headband or something, you'll need that stiffer felt, so I encourage you to use that white glue method I did. 

Also, my felt circles were a lot smaller than hers.

Again, if I'd known about this fabric glue, I would have ditched the needle and thread!

I hope this helps!!

princess74

Whoohoo! Thanks, Eeva. I like yours way better!! I will have to try this tutorial with satin like your pretty rosettes.

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alyssa324

hey wheres the leaf tutorial?? LOL I have been waiting for it

Nukke

Oh sorry sorry sorry!

Ok I'll use some good old MS paint and make one best I can :P

Here you go....

1.  If you want a leaf size of about 2" (it will end up being slightly larger) then double that and cut a square of fabric accordingly (4").

2.  Fold the fabric in half into a triangle

3. Sew the two non-folded sides together (honestly, this isn't entirely necessary, but I just felt like my leaf was "safer" for having done this).

4.  Fold your triangle in half again, placing the two sewn sides together, making a smaller triangle (2" high).


5.  With a needle and thread, weave your thread 6 times through the bottom of the fabric triangle.  I've placed pink dots to show you where I did this.  Start with the needle at the back of the fabric, piercing up towards you, then down, then up just right of the middle, then down just left of the middle, and up again, and finally down again at the final corner. Depending on how many puckers you want in your leaf, you can sew as few as 4 and as many as 8 stitches, as long as the two corners and up being folded inward, face up (which is why you need an even number of stiches).  I think 6 looks the best.  You end up with two little puckers on either side of the middle.

6.  Pull the thread through, causing the triangle to pucker.  Sew a few simple stiches to join the two corners together, and sew them to the main leaf.  My corners usually end up being slightly below the triangle, which makes the leaf slightly longer than 2", and more of a diamond "leaf" shape.  






HTH!  any questions?