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mardi 24 février 2009

How to : Delicate Fabric Flower brooch


I just love those fabrics flowers. So delicate with a touch of vintage!

To make this project you will need:

- Fabric (I decided to go with cream colored linen)
- A needle and some nylon string
- A pair of scissors
- A pinback
- Some feathers (if you like them :))

1- Download the template on Carotte & Lychee Flickr here for the small and large petal.


2- Cut 9 large petals and 11 small ones.


3- Take one petal and put a little piece of string as shown on the picture.


4- Pull the string to squeeze the fabric. Hold the tip and solidify it by making an other point with your needle and string.


5- You petal should now look like something like this!


6- Repeat steps 3-4-5 on all large the petals.


7- Take four of them and sew them together.


8- It should now look like this.


9- Now, sew 3 petals together.


10- Sew together the group of four and the group of three petals.


11- Finally sew the two remaining large petals together.


12- Sew them on top of the other large petals.


13- Repeat steps 3-4-5 on all small petals.

14- Sew them together adding each petal below the other so the middle of the flower will be nice and clean.


15- You now have two parts of the flower.

16- Sew them together.


17- Voilà!

18- You can now sew some feathers on the back if you like.

19- Sew a pin on the back

20- Your flower is now ready to be worn :)

lundi 2 février 2009

Linen flower brooch


One night last week, I was bored. I decided to make a brooch in the shape of a flower in linen. I wore it at the office the next morning and got a lot of really good comments on it.

UPDATE : The "How-to" is now online for this project! Hurray :D

vendredi 30 janvier 2009

A glimpse of spring

Somebody gave me, as an hostess gift for our family New Year's party, an Amaryllis bulb. I thought it was a creative gift idea instead of the usual bottle or wine or box of chocolate. The flower just arrived this week. With all the snow falling on Montreal, it’s nice to have a glimpse of spring in my kitchen!