Tutrial: How To Make Fabric Flowers

I have seen these tutorials for fabric flowers all over Blogland and have marked them as a "to make" item for what seems like forever now!

This weekend I finally gave it a go!

SO EASY!

Of course I took pics along the way to share with you in case you haven't seen this before!

Materials:

Fabric

Needle and thread

Button center
Scissors

First, take fabric and cut it into squares. I made mine 3 in x 3 in

** You want to IRON your squares... I was being super duper lazy did not and regretted it once it was done! So save yourself the regret- IRON!**

{I forgot to take a picture of the first square being added on... but it is the same for all of them}

You take your square and fold it in half

And then just use a long gather stitch and stitch all along the 2 edges {I would maybe make the stitches a little closer together than I did...}

And then you pull lightly on the stitch to gather your fabric

Pull it all the way and you have a petal!

 

Repeat the same process for all of your petals.   I made mine with 5 petals, but I am sure you could play around with it!

And then you add your button center {I hot glued mine in there but I am sure you can sew it. I am more of a glue girl than a sewing girl though! *wink}

I added a felt circle to the back {forgot to get a picture} and then attached it to an alligator clip. 

Now it can be clipped directly into your hair, or onto a headband!

You could even add a pin to the back instead and clip it to a belt, a purse... the options are endless!

LOVE it!

 I also plan on making one with each petal a different fabric, I think that would be cute as well!