DIY Fabric Flowers – Pretty flowers to make

DIY Fabric flowers have so many uses. Attach them to hair clips, brooch backs and even necklaces. These round petal DIY fabric flowers will only take you a few minutes to make and are easy for even beginners. Best of all, if you make lots of them, they may even make a dent in your scrap fabric collection.

DIY Fabric Flowers

These DIY fabric flowers use circles of fabric to give the nice rounded petals. They also curve up at the ends so have a quite 3-dimensional look which is nice. Fabric flowers are surprisingly quick and simple to make and don’t need a sewing machine. Just your scrap, a needle and thread!

If you are looking for more shapes of flowers here are two more tutorials

• How to Make Fabric Yo Yos – These flowers are made from gathered circles.
• Cloth Flower Making – These are a similar flower with pointed ends.

DIY Fabric Flowers – The Video

Please watch this 2-minute video on making these DIY fabric flowers. You will see just how easy it is!

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DIY Fabric Flowers – Supplies

• FABRIC – 6 circles of fabric. As a general rule, the flowers end up the same finished diameter as your circles. So a 3 inch (7.5cm) diameter circle will result in a 3 inch finished flower. You can make the flowers as small or large as you like! I have used the 3 inch size. Fabrics with a tight weave work best as they have some thickness and body and won’t fray too much. Try using all your quilting fabric scraps.
• NEEDLE AND THREAD -Thick thread and a hand needle. I like to use upholstery thread. If you have trouble threading thick threads, use a needle threader.
• OPTIONAL – Buttons or beads to decorate. These can be any size. The advantage of using a button is that it covers the center raw edges.
• FELT – 1 inch diameter felt or fabric circle for the back.
• GLUE – Hot glue gun to attach the felt and buttons.

DIY Fabric Flowers – Instructions

Here are the instructions for the DIY fabric flowers. Scroll down to see some photos of my sample being made.

Step 1 – Press

You should have 6 circles of fabric. Press your circles in half with the WRONG sides together.

Step 2 – Stitch

Using a small running stitch (up and down stitch), sew around the curved raw edges of your semi-circle. Go through both layers of fabric. The stitches should be quite small. See if you can stitch 1/8-1/4 inch (3-6mm) stitches.

Step 3 – Pull

Pull the thread through and gather up the petal. Be gentle! Leave a 3 inch (7.5cm) tail of thread that you can use later to knot off.

Step 4 – Repeat 

Repeat for the other petals. If your fabric is really thick you may find that you only need 5 petals instead of the 6. For thin fabric, you may need an extra petal. Play around a bit and see what you like the look of.

Step 5 -Tie

Pull tight and tie the ends of the thread in a double knot. Knot again just to doubly make sure it won’t come undone. If your flowers are going to be subject to a lot of wear and tear, you can even put a drop of glue on the knot.

Step 6 – Glue

Glue your felt circle on the back of the flower to hide the messy center.

Step 7 – Finish

Glue a bead or button to the front of the flower. Buttons with a shank work well as you can nestle it in the hole in the middle.

Here are the steps photographed for you.

DIY Fabric Flowers – In Conclusion

Enjoy your DIY fabric flowers. You can now glue your flower or sew your flower to necklaces, clothing, hair accessories, brooches and anything else you can think of.

Thanks for reading 🙂

More DIY Flowers and Bows

Here are some links to other styles of DIY flowers and bows. Use up scrap fabric to create hair accessories and jewelry.

• Cloth Flower Making
• How to Make Fabric Yo yos
• How to Make Pom Poms
• DIY Felt Hair Bows