Look at this!
LOOK
AT THIS!
Fabulous
right!? I remember my first time seeing one of these... Ahh.. good times.
Now you see.. a few months ago, it was
Ruffles! Ruffles! Ruffles! But let me tell you somethin.. Ruffles out! Chevron
in!!! I love love love lovvvve it! The pattern is everywhere! Including my Pinterest boards! {Funny... I'm POSITIVE I said this exact thing about a
month ago only I was talking about ruffles!!!}
So
here we go!!
First
we start with the flower. Which is made by cutting tonsss of petals out of
felt!
NEED:
Scissors
{Duh..}
Some
kinda fabric glue {I used hot glue, I think that's best because it will set
faster}
Felt
sheets {I used 4 per flower}
A
bit of thin cardboard {from like a cereal box or something}
To
start, cut your felt into strips {2.5 inch, 2, 1.75, 1.5, 1} Then cut your
strips into 2.5 inch, 2, 1.75, 1.5, 1 squares. After you got your squares start
making petals outta them. I wanted a bigger flower so I did 5 petal sizes, it
was about 8 inches in diameter.
To make the
petals cut each square into a rounded petal shape, with a wide base and a
pointed tip.
{I
made 'master copies' of each size because I wanted all of them to be the same
because I'm OCD.. And because I felt it would be easier because I was planning
on making three!}
So
after the petals cut a 4 1/2 inch circle outta cardboard then a felt circle a
bit bigger than the cardboard to cover it.
Start
gluing the petals on, starting with the largest.
Notice that
the space between the first and second row isn't a big one. You want to overlap
them as much as you can. You also want to make sure you have a good space in
the middle when you are all done.
It should
look somethin like this!
For the
center I used a rounded button.
I used a
12x12 piece of wood, you coulddd use a canvas.. but I figured a piece of wood
would be cheaper! It was love at first sight with this fabric! Isn't it a
beauty!? I just knew I wanted it in my house!
{Anyhow... I
basically just stapled the fabric on the back of the wood and hot glued the
flower in the center.}
{They make
me soooo happy!}
Now here comes
some creative geniusness! I used pop tops to hang them!
I screwed a
screw through the bottom hole and bent the top half for the nail to hang on.
There
is seriously nothing better than the feeling of being done with a project!
...except
it goes away quickly when you turn around and see the big mess you have to
clean up.
Anddd that's
it! I'm really happy with them! It didn't take me a long time so that is always
a plus {I usually spend months on a project} I've gotten a lot of complements
too, always rewarding(:
I love the
yellow one! It started a whole new color scheme in our living room/dinning room
area! We are starting to experiment with colors other than red! Which is
exciting!
