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!

Wool Felt Headbands

Happy Monday! I had a great weekend and was able to get some crafting in too!

Have you ever worked with wool felt before? I kept seeing it online but never actually purchased any. But let me tell you-

I am LOVIN the 100% Wool Felt I bought the other day! L-O-V-E.IT. 

I bought a small amount just to see if I liked working with it, but I know I will be buying more, like today soon!

Isn't this headband to die for?!

Seriously cute, right?

And how precious is it on my little cutie?!

And this little beauty?

Yeah, I am in love with wool felt!

I have a bunch more half made, but my cuties decided to wake up from their naps in the middle of craft time {it always happens that way, huh? lol!} so I didn't get a chance to finish them all!

The hard part for me is going to be listing them in my Etsy store and not keeping them all for my kiddos! LOL!

And Pssst....... that first headband is already listed in my store if you love it as much as I do :)  I will be listing more soon! The link to my Etsy is over there on the right hand side {or just click HERE to be taken there}... go ahead, click on it! You know you want to! :)