Easy Fabric Flowers Tutorial

Fabric flowers are a great way to embellish woman's clothing. you can usually whip them up quickly, easily and from your scraps box ( don't tell me you don't have one! Everyone sewist has them)
There are dozens of ways to make them, here's one of the ways I use to make flowers. I'm sharing here because I haven't seen any other tutorial using this method. If you have already known about it or don't need it, feel free to skip.

Materials:

Knit scraps
Matching thread
Needle for hand sewing ( optional)

Construction:

1. Cut a knit strip 3 inches X 15 inches. This will make pretty big flowers of about 5 inches diameter. These are fine for adult clothing, but if you're sewing for kids keep the strip width between 1.5 inches - 2 inches.

2. Set your stitch length to longest and sew a seam along one longer side .

3. Pull the bobbin thread to gather the fabric tightly.  It will take the circular shape.

4. Sew the shorter sides with right sides together.

5. You can see that there is a ruffle in the center of the flower. Now place the flower wherever you want to sew it and sew a seam all around the ruffle in the center. The flower is actually ready at this point but below are a few optional steps and I tell you why I prefer to do them.

6. What I found is that if you leave the flowers after step 5, they will get crumpled in wash and then you have to iron them to get them back in the right shape. So I used the following method to keep them blooming.

7. Thread a needle with matching thread and sew small tacks along the circumference of the flowers.

Here's how it looked on the inside.

8. Enjoy the flower!

Here's a pointer to other kinds of flowers, just in case this one is not your type.

Not sure where to use these flowers? I think I can show you a couple of ways..wink, wink.