A little fabric can go a long way. In fact, during my new Sewing With Nancy mini-series, my guest Amy Barickman and I give you great reasons to keep even small pieces of fabric, because they are ideal candidates to create stunning fabric flowers.
This week, Fabric Flowers part one is the featured Sewing With Nancy online video. You can watch the entire program online, or of course, on your local PBS station. (Schedules and topics vary with each PBS station.) During this first episode, you’ll see five great fabric flower options that really can be stitched in short order, plus they look dynamic!
Five Great Fabric Flowers—Make One This Evening!
Click here to watch online. Then, let me know which is your favorite option!
Passion Poppy
Wool felt is the base for the Passion Poppy with highlights of roving added. It’s a striking adornment that’s easy to create.
Select a small piece of felt, we used wool felt, and add the roving highlights. On TV we show how to use Baby Lock’s Embellisher, or choose Clover’s Needle Felting Tools. This fabric flower accessory is a show stopper!
Rounded Rosettes
Roses, nothing but roses—that’s what this next fabric flower technique is all about. Amy’s rounded rosettes are equally as charming as the botanical kind with the advantage of extended longevity! Learn another felting technique, and you too can create a single rose or bouquet of roses.
Pretty Petals
Take your felting venture one step further by creating individual petals and dimensional petals! Our Pretty Petal accessory combines texture, fibers, dimension, and shaping for a dramatic accessory.
I know you’ll enjoy the process of stacking the petals after adding touches of roving. No two fabric flowers will look the same!
Bias Blooms
Mix and match cotton prints to create your own variety of Bias Blooms. No degree in horticulture is needed, just an eye for color and a little sewing savvy!
There are three elements to this fabric flower. Amy gives the pattern details in her new book.
Budding Yo-Yos
Fabric Yo-Yos were the inspiration for Amy’s Budding Yo-Yo accessory. Smidgens of silk, cotton, and wool turn into dimensional circles that are stacked and embellished. It’s a classic look from a homespun origin.
There are 52 programs to watch online, on PBS or on your iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone.
All the details are in one easy-to-follow book!
During the 2-part series, Amy and I only had time to feature 10 easy-to-make flower blooms. In her book, Indygo Junction’s Fabric Flowers, you’ll find 25 options!
Do you have a favorite?
You’ve just seen a preview of the first episode of Fabric Flowers. Let me know which design or process is your favorite? Please post below. Next week you’ll have five more fabric flower options! (You can vote this week and next week!) We’ll post the random winner on October 18. Amy Barickman has graciously offered to send a copy of Indygo Junction’s Fabric Flowers to the winner. Stay tuned!
Bye for now,
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I love the poppy, I am making one tomorrow to go on a headband. I am also thinking of using the idea to make holiday flowers for the headband as well.
Does anyone know if the base felt has to be 100% wool? I’m having a hard time finding it!
Misty, by all means, you could use other felt. The advantage of wool is that it is more pliable. I’m sure you’ll have positive results with the more readily available felt.
LOVE the bias flower on the cover…can just imagine one on my winter coat!!
I especially like the Bias Blooms and the Budding YoYos. They will be nice on my young neices garments.
I like the Bias Blooms and the Budding YoYos. These will be sew cute on my young neices garments.
Not easy to choose a favorite. I like them all but will go with Budding yo-yos.
All are beautiful; love the rosebud arrangement bu the coil flower on the cover is very interesting
I am really partial to the poppy Poppy design … just love it!
I have been looking for some kind off flower to put on a purse that I started. What great ideas! Gonna be hard to choose.
I like the bias blooms. I have many scraps of fabrics and can see these being used on presents as well as other items.
I like the yo-yo ones — but they are all nice to look at!
Pretty Petals are my absolute faborites, the combinations are endless!
I love the yo yo’s so my favorite would have to be the yo yo flowers
LOVE them all but especially fond of the Passion Poppy!
Haven’t tried the needle felting as yet , but I can see it will be in my near furture… they are very pretty. But I like the YO-YO’s with the beads on them. That is what I would try first. I have worked with them before and they are fun. This pin is very stylish. Can’t wait to see part two!
I would have to choose the Poppies they are just awesome. Thanks for sharing!
I love Amy’s work!! Favorite is the Passion Poppy!!
They are all such an inspiration for everyone to create and if I really have to choose just one it would be PRETTY PETALS. Love to needlefelt.
The Bias Blooms are too cute! I’ve been looking for a book like this. Thanks for the opportunity to win this book!
I love the Passion Poppy and the Budding Yo-Yos. What a great idea for quick gifts or to add as a decoration to a package for the receipent to use as an adornment on their hair, blouse or purse. I think I might need to make a bunch of these.
Great ideas for embellishments. I would like to try the Budding Yo-Yos first. Then do some felted ones.
I love the beautiful poppy, maybe because the colors were so striking. I can just see some of these in my nearly 4-year-old granddaughter’s hair, on a headband or a clip. She is becoming super particular about her hairdo and her clothes.
Yo-yo’s! All gorgeous, but that’s my favorite!
Love all of them!! Have been going flower crazy, so great to have a wonderful selection to add to them!!
They are all so pretty and different. I like the light and springy fabric one a lot.
Its so difficult to choose. But I do have a love of yo-yo’s. The Budding Yo-Yo’s.
Rounded rosettes used to make a bouquet would be my choice for a project. I know a little girl who plays “bride” all the time and I suspect that this would make a great addition to her play time.
Love the pretty pedals….my favorite
Love the pretty petals! I love the pretty necklace. I think it would be great to make for my granddaughters.
So much loveliness here! I think I’d pick the Bias Bloom as my favorite because it puts a nice new spin on a yo-yo. Thanks!
I Loved the pretty petals and the roses are beautiful! I loved them all and plan to make some on my next sleepover with my granddaughter,she is going to be so excited,thank you so much.
So hard to choose ,but the poppy one is very elegant !
What a great way to dress up an outfit!
Thanks Nancy & Amy
Love the details from the Poppy design. So much texture and color to replicate this beautiful flower! Ilene
I like the single petal pin the best. Maybe a hand felting tool would be a next project for me even though the machine would be great. I would like to try the cotton fabric one since there seems to be an over abundance of it in the sewing room.
It’s close – they’re all stunning! But I think I would have to say I like the Bias Blooms best.
Pretty “Pretty Petals”!
I would have to say the bias is the favorite for me .. The granddaughters like the others, cannot wat to see more.