DIY: Fabric Flower Tutorial

Today I have a tutorial to share on how to make a different kind of fabric flower.

These are more like a tight rose (The one on the far right in the picture above)

This is a VERY poor picture of what the rosette looks like (without the beads and in VERY POOR LIGHTING!!)

What you will need is:

An embroidery hoop (as long as it's bigger than the diameter of your flowers, it's all good)

A pen

About 1/4 yard of fabric (silk taffeta, or any heavier fabric recommended)

Clear thread (or same color as fabric) and needle

Measuring tape and scissors.

Start by drawing a circle on the fabric as big as you want the flower to be. Proceed by putting enough fabric through the embroidery hoop  and tightening it!

With the remaining fabric cut a strip of fabric about 2" wide by 2" long (that is about what you need for a 1.5" flower). It is better to cut the strip too long than too short. You can always cut the excess, but is very difficult adding legth to it.

Proceed by making a 5 point "star" on your embroidery hoop with the clear thread.. Please refer to the picture below. The thread should meet in the middle and then go out in five different spots around the edge of the circle

Grab the long piece fabric and secure it to the middle with the thread and needle.

This is where the tricky part begins. Pul the fabric strip over one of the divisions of thread and then under the next one. Continue going over and under around the circle until you run out of fabric.

Once you are out of fabric, add random stitches all over the flower to keep it in place.. Cut around the circle and tuck the edges into the flower. I sometimes also add fabric glue in between the rosette and the fabric that was secured by the embroidery hoop.

And ta-dah!!

Click here to learn how to make the rest of the flowers and follow me to learn how to make the garter pictured above

Do you know how to make other fabric flowers?

Aranza

DIY: Wedding Day Garter Tutorial.

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Even though we are not tossing a garter at the reception, I still wanted to have one for Ace to take off later.

So, I decided to make one!

I had seen this picture on Pinterest and I really liked the fact that it was lace and not just elastic with satin fabric.

Via Pinterest

You will need:

Stretch lace trim (I got mine at hobby lobby).

Three fabric flowers and extra fabric that matches the flowers

Small beads

Clear/white/ivory thread (and needle)

To begin, measure your thigh and cut your lace trim 1" shorter than this.

Sew the edges together by overlapping 1" of the lace and doing a zig zag over the raw edges. Like so...

Now it's time for the fun part!

Gather your fabric flowers and decide how you want to arrange them. Learn how to make these fabric flowers here and here. I added gold beads to the center of my flowers. 

I took a picture of how I wanted to arrange them (I ended up changing the arrangement, but that helped me have an idea for when I sewed them on).

Pin the flowers in place and sew a couple of stitch to keep them in place.

Later on, I added a few fabric "petals" under one of the flowers. 

And more beads directly onto the lace in the shape of a leaf.

And tadah! You are done :)

If I were to throw my garter, I would probably make a second one, but without the bling; the bling was very time consuming

God bless,

Aranza