Fun Puffy Flowers
Make a fun flower for mom this Mother's day. Follow this cute tutorial to make the perfect gift. She can decorate the house with these flowers. They're great conversation pieces.
Materials:
- Fabric
- Template/shape to trace around (or freehand cuts the mustard too)
- Pen
- 3/16 Dowel
- Fiberfill
- Scissors/pinking shears
Note:Jo-Ann's has a large selection of dowels, but any hardware store should as well. You can see the diameter and length of the ones I bought. For the vases I had, it worked perfectly to just saw them in half, but you'll be able to gauge what height will look best in your creation.
Steps:
- Trace around your template/shape. I added an extra inch all the way around just by eyeballing it.
- Cut out 2 shapes for each flower (front and back). I used a pinking shears to give it a little more character.
- Place 2 pieces, wrong sides together and simply sew around the petals leaving about a 1/4" seam. I used a sewing machine, but you could certainly do a running stitch by hand. Leave a 1" hole in between 2 petals for stuffing.
- Push fiberfill into each formed flower, using the dowel to distribute it into each petal.
- Saw dowel to desired length and place it far enough in to establish stability.
- You can hand sew this open part closed, but I actually didn't. The type and print of fabric I used was very forgiving.
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