Fabric Flowers

Fabric Flowers

At my Charmers Ladies Small Quilt Group in January, I brought a hand-work project to try making a fabric flower from 6 3-inch circles of fabric.  I used dental floss for the thread, because it needed to be strong.  It worked great!

It went so well, I should have brought a few more kits to make more flowers.

 

I can use up some of the buttons in my stash that I saved for journal closures. 

This is the tutorial I used for both pointy and round-petaled flowers.

 

I love the pearls and sparkle on this one, but I think it might be a little too big for this little flower?

 

 

Expect a few more of these ...   

This may be my contribution to the boutique for the Quilt Shows this year.  I

t's the kind of thing I would buy at a quilt show!

Quilted Feathers and Pearls Pillow Cover

Feathers and Pearls Wreath Pillow

I've been wanting to do this for a while now.  My biggest challenge was enlarging the pattern to the right size.  When I finally did that, and copied it onto the quilting paper that I could sew through, I was finally ready to begin stitching.

I used a lovely blue dyed fabric, with a piece of an old quilted mattress pad.  The fitted part (the part that keeps it on your mattress) often wears out before the padded part on top, and they make great battings for projects like this, or a wall hanging because they don't sag like cotton or natural fibers might.  And they give a lovely puff / loft to the quilting.  That's the waste-not/want not recycler in me determined to use it up before throwing something out.

 

Here it is from the back side / batting side. 
The design is Circle Wreath by Susan Mallet from 2008.