fabric flowers

Last week I was just sitting here minding my own business. Getting some work done.  Painting some mason jar orders.  Making a few pillows.  Taking a break here and there to hop online.  Check things out.  Peruse Facebook. And Pinterest. And then it happened …

 

Bam!

 

I happen upon a picture … this picture … and I’m consumed.

 

I need to make them.  I need to figure out how to make them.  So I start experimenting.  Cutting up scraps of fabric this way and that way …

 

and I’m failing miserably.

 

Just when I was ready to throw in the towel, I happened upon this post.  Fabric pom poms.  And I start thinking about how those pom poms could also be fabric flowers.  Fabric mums, to be more precise …

 

So I grabbed some cardboard and some t-shirts and I get to work.  Starting with making my form …

 

 

The outer edge measures approximately 5 inches in diameter.

 

 

The inner circle measures approximately 1” in diameter.

 

 

And I made two.

 

 

Next I cut strips of fabric – using t-shirts – about 3/4” wide.

 

 

I placed one strip on the form.

 

 

And then sandwiched it between the other form.

 

 

Then I started wrapping the strips around the form.

 

After I wrapped the strips around for three full times, I lightly tied off the strips sandwiched between the two forms.

 

 

And then I cut …

 

And then I tied those two strings as tight as I can …

 

 

Before I removed the forms.

 

 

After which I trimmed.

 

 

Before adding a stem.

 

 

The end.

 

I wonder what will catch my attention – and obsession – this week?  It might be safer if I just stayed offline …

 

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