Twitterpated Fabric Flower

Hi all!  Just wanted to pop in with a quick post.  I wanted to share the fabric flower pins I made out of the Twitterpated fabric from the Occasions Mini.  These are really so much fun to make!  The tutorial instructions for making these fabric flower pins are on this post here.  I used the Flower Folds Bigz XL die to cut the flowers..so easy and cute to make!

Here's a look at the Twitterpated  fabric swatches and product deets:

So whaddaya think? Hope you like it! Have a great one!  I'll catch up with you guys soon.  Bye for now.



{yummy} Fabrics!

I just had to share the gorgeous Heather Bailey fabrics I got online. Aren't these such fun springy-vintage prints?! I love her website and all her fun fabrics. I'm hoping to make a rag purse and some more flowers...I'll definitely post them when I'm done! I know this is a short post, but I couldn't help myself - these fabrics really are so pretty in person!

Flower visors, anyone?

Hi all! The other day, I made my first fabric flower and got SO HOOKED on making these, that I made a few more, in different flower styles, even! I also had a bunch of visors that I had ordered from a friend years ago {circa 2006}, but never ended up doing anything with them. Well, lucky me - I rediscovered them and pinned the fabric flowers on them and they are JUST ADORABLE! Aren't these fun for the spring and summer? We've gotten quite a warm up in weather here in Southern CA - it was mid 70's yesterday - that these visors would be perfect to use out and about. How cute to have a visor for the beach, too, don't you think? Here's a close up of the flowers I made. I used the flower folds die for one of them, and for the other two, I created the flowers using the scallop circle #2 dies! Here are closeup's of the different flowers: This first flower is made the same way I created my first fabric flower post. The fabric is also part of that same pre-packaged quilting squares I used!
This flower is made using both scallops on the Scallop Circles #2 Bigz die. It's only 2 layers instead of 3, but you use the same method as the flower folds flower in putting it together.
This last flower also uses the Scallop Circles #2 Bigz die. The only difference is when I folded it in half, I actually offset the fold so it wasn't quite in half - that way, the reverse side would peak through and give it some extra dimension.

Now that I've made a few of these, I think I want to order some more visors! I've been doing some research and have found this site carries the Anvil visors, but haven't ordered from them before, so I may do some more research. They're a pretty good price though! Hope you enjoyed this! If you're local, you can come to my March Big Shot class, where we'll be making these. Sign up for my newsletter to get the details!

Have a great day!

making my first fabric flower pin

Good morning and Happy Saturday! I've been intrigued with the fabric flower pins that I've been seeing on blogs, stores, and magazines lately, so I thought it was time to deconstruct it and make my own! Luckily, there are lots of helpful tutorials on this, so it wasn't too difficult to figure it out. I found this video by Christie Daugherty to be super helpful! I thought I'd do a quick pictorial of the steps and components for this pretty flower pin. So here we go...
For the pin I made, I used the Flower folds die to create 3 flower layers. I've circled the flowers on the die cut that I used. You might be wondering what kind of fabric I used for this - well I just went to JoAnn's and bought a pack of pre-packaged quiltiing squares that are about 5" precut squares that happen to be sized perfectly for these flowers. They are just light-weight regular fabric, although I know that other folks have used heavier upholstery fabric as well. One 5" fabric square will cover the 2 smaller flowers, and you'll need another square to cover the bigger flower. Each flower uses 4 pieces of fabric, so I picked out 4 different patterns to create each petal. That means you'll need to stack your 4 fabric squares on top of the two smaller flowers on the die and the other 4 squares on the bigger flower. Once the pieces are positioned, you're ready to run it through your Big Shot. Next, you'll want to arrange your 3 flower layers like so: You'll fold each fabric flower in half and then create each flower by "weaving" the 4 flowers over each other. You'll end up with 3 flowers that have 4 heart petals in each of the different fabric prints, as you can see pictured above. You'll want to secure each of the layers with a glue gun (you should watch the video in the link above to see exactly how to do this). Once you have your flower all glued together, you can finish off the back with a pin and the felt scallop circle (again using the glue gun to adhere).
And here's a picture of the front, where I added the button to finish off my flower!
And...viola! Here's the finished flower pinned to the bag. So fun!

You gotta try it out! Fabric Flowers are all the rage these days. You can decorate your bags, shirts, sweaters, even make hair clips - whatever you want! Plus, they make great personalized gifts, too. Hope you enjoyed this! Now, go out and make your own flower pin ;)