Flower power @ Craft Club

Here's something to make with the ribbons you've collected from gifts, stashed away in a drawer.


This project is from a book called Fabric Flowers by Kate Haxell. Cutting, twisting and stitching. Rather sweet, we think. Mr J come along and made a flower! 

Flowers or birds?

I found this link to a beautiful felt flower ages ago and have just got round to making it. The link to this lovely project is here at the Megan Reardon tutorial, or link to her blog Not Martha


Extra tips are:


1) Stitch each petal rather than gluing, less fiddly & saves time 
2) Rather than glue the main disc to the card, sew a running stitch around the edge of the disc and then pull tight to fix it over the card backing. See pic below...

I'm going to experiment with other colours and shapes and I'll let you know how things go...


Happy stitching
Alli
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Textile Jewellery Course

I went on a textile jewellery course in Bristol last week, run by Julie Roberts (this link takes you to her courses/website) at her studio in Easton and here's what I made..

Flower brooches

Covered Button in the middle of this one

Close up

We used Suffolk Puffs to make brooches - 

layering up the fabric creates

different effects

Stitch on a button

Add some random embroidery stitches

I can now turn a length of ribbon

into a rose or two

Julie Roberts' courses  are run at her studio in Easton and she runs a variety of craft classes/day courses at The Bristol Folk House.


As a child I remember making suffolk puffs (large ones) and stitching them together to make a sausage dog draft excluder - a way of using odd fabric and keeping the drafts away - these were the days before central heating and double glazing!


There are lots of tutorials and images using suffolk Puffs online.


Here http://lifeatrosemaryhill.blogspot.com/2009/08/sewing-saturday.html they have been used to make a garland.

http://lifeatrosemaryhill.blogspot.com/2009/08/sewing-saturday.html

Here another blogger http://www.monpolkadotcheri.co.uk/2010/07/homage-to-suffolk-puff.html who shows how potty she is about these cute fabric puffs!

http://www.monpolkadotcheri.co.uk/2010/07/homage-to-suffolk-puff.html

Keeeep sewing!