Carotte & Lychee: brooch

mardi 4 janvier 2011

Delicate vintage-style brooch

Our traditional secret Santa / handmade gift exchange at the office came and went.. and so did 2010! Can you believe it? Oh well. In early December, we drew the name of our gift recipient from a tea cup, and off I ran to my little crafting room. Easily enough, just thinking about the person inspired me to pick out specific material from my boxes.

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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.