Fleur'd

My sister was recently married and her friend made adorable headbands with fabric flowers for the bridesmaids. I decided it would be a fun activity to see if I could make them as well.

I found two tutorials on the internet that I decided to try--one for flat flowers and one for puffy flowers.


I honestly didn't have much faith in myself in the beginning--I am not the best at following instructions. However, I found that I as able to make them very easily. In fact I made my own video tutorial :

 Once I had finished the flowers I realized I had a problem: I had no real use for fabric flowers. After contemplating this obviously huge problem I decided to decorate a bulletin board with them. I simply covered a bulletin board with fabric using a staple gun. Voila! A use for my flowers.

My lovely flowers

I loved how the flowers turned out, but I'm not sure I loved making them. I had a few entertaining moments--I always love using a glue gun and a nail gun.

I now have this lovely anecdote: I needed to iron the fabric, but I was too lazy to bring up the iron and ironing board from the basement. I had the genius idea of using my old hair straightener as a substitute iron. As I was attempting to iron a large piece of fabric with a small flat iron, I realized I could just take the fabric to the basement and leave the iron where it was. At least I tried being resourceful.

Overall I think I will occasionally make fabric flowers and similar crafts. However I do not see this becoming a hobby. It was a bit boring, and I don't really enjoy having my fingers covered in glue, burned by a glue gun, or being near sharp objects.

Even though this won't be a longtime hobby, I'm glad I tried something new. I also have a great new bulletin board to hang on my wall.