Simple Fabric Flower Crafts

An easy method of using your scrap fabric to make pretty fabric flowers that you can turn into broochs or use as embellishments on hats, bags and headbands.

Materials Needed: Scrap Fabric Flowers

– Scraps of fabric – Pinking Shears – Buttons – Scraps of Quilt Batting – Sewing Machine – Needle & Thread

Method 1: Easy Scrap Fabric Flowers

The flower above was made out of scraps of tweed, and some scraps of a man’s dress shirt.

STEP 1: MAKE YOUR SCRAP FABRIC “PETALS”

What shape you choose will most likely be determined by the shape of your scraps to be honest but either way just use your rotary cutter, fabric scissors or pinking shears to get them the shape you want.

Next I used a zigzag stitch around the edge of each of my petals. I used a shorter stitch for the thin men’s shirt cotton and a longer one for the tweed and quilted fabrics.

STEP 2: SEW THE EDGES OF YOUR PETALS

STEP 3: HAND SEW YOUR FLOWER TOGETHER

To assemble your scrap fabric flower, all you have to do is lay out your petals in the design you like and pick out a pretty button (or several) to finish it off.

STEP 4: ADD A BACKING (OPTIONAL)

Depending what you plan to do with your scrap fabric flowers you can choose to add a backing to finish it off.

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