Flower Petals
Tue, February 28, 2012 at 07:48AM Flowers!
Learn how to make leaves {flower petals} in the leafy scrap fabric buster tutorial.
free-motion stitched
This was inspired by seeing a bunch of art journal pages (various artists) where scrapbook paper was cut into petals and made collage flowers. I made a bed of burlap, heavy fusible interface (not ironed in) and felt and sewed it together around the edges just to hold it together. I used the interface to make it easier to move around without bending, and I added the felt because it provides a smooth first layer to slide around easily under the needle. The leaves and center were cut freehand with scissors. I used the darning foot, feed dogs down, stitched each petal separately. Great practice for freestyle, freehand, free motion (whatever you call it) stitching!
Find more photographs and ideas for leafy + petally + scrappy fabric projects here!
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These are great! And look like fun to make--gotta get me a sewing machine.... Thanks for sharing!
{Tammy}: Lorinda, Thank you for stopping by, and yes, sewing machines are full of wonder!
These are so happy! The bright colors, the stitching- I am smiling just looking at them!! Thanks for sharing!
{Tammy}: Carolyn, So happy I could bring you a colorful smile today. Thank you for saying hello!
Oh! I love those. I really really need to start to sew more again!
{Tammy}: Luthien, Go for it. You won't regret taking time to sew, it's a magic potion to create from paper and fabric.
What fun! They are so colorful. They remind me of the tags I did for the rainbow challenge - that I never made into anything. Ooops! Perhaps I need to revisit them. :)
{Tammy}: Kathleen, Yes - great idea, using your pretty rainbow tags in another piece of art, they would be cool fodder for collage as well. Thank you for saying hello today.
The petals look great - particularly the ones with more than one fabric! I might have a little play this afternoon and use my pinking shears for some!
{Tammy}: Wendy, I picked the fabric choices at random and it's always a fun surprise to see how the random matches work together. Can you believe I've never owned pinking shears?
I really LOVE all the different colors. I especially like the petals that use two or more different fabrics. Fun and pretty!
{Tammy}: Natalie, Thank you! I like the patchwork (?) petals best too, the random combinations, the funky way they turned out.
Tammy, these are so super cute! I just picked up a sewing machine (I've been without for the past 12 years or so) and I've been pondering what to try first...this is it!! Thanks for the idea and how-to, and most importantly, thanks for the inspiration!!
xoxo MotherDana
This is so good. I was scanning down your recent posts and thought these were cut up doodles... they are so colourful. I hope you don't mind me going off to have a go at using this concept as I have a ton of scraps that need a purpose in life. I'm thinking perhaps some leaves or wavy cutouts across a journal cover.
Thanks for dropping by my place :) and for your lovely comment. I hope you have some fun with the eco dying... I feel very uplifted to have inspired another to try something out! I love the changes that take place as a piece of fabric dries and the colour concentrates itself on the outer edges. The one with red cabbage was most dramatic in that respect, drying almost black in parts. I have more pictures showing some results which I really must get round to posting!!
Have a great week! :)
I love these. I am useless with my sewing machine, and only just realised why all my stitching was messy at the bottom, but I can see a whole blanket with those flowers. I will maybe start small though! :).
I love your fabric choices.