How to Make Flowers from Silk Fabric
- 1). Cut out five pieces of silk, each 4 inches in diameter, in the desired petal shape.
- 2). Hand sew a 1/4-inch-wide circle of stitches in the middle of the first silk piece. Draw the stitches in so that the center of the fabric is gathered up and forms a pucker in the middle.
- 3). Sew the middle of the fabric piece to a piece of crinoline, with the puckered side of the silk facing up.
- 4). Hand stitch a 1/2-inch circle in the middle of the second piece of silk and gather it just like the first silk piece.
- 5). Sew the middle of the second silk piece (puckered side up) on top of the middle of the first silk piece, going all the way through to the crinoline.
- 6). Sew progressively larger circles in the middle of the third, fourth and fifth fabric circles (3/4 inch, 1 inch and 1-1/4 inches, respectively).
- 7). Gather the thread circles of the last three silk pieces and sew them on top of the other silk pieces, with the puckered sides up, going through all the layers of the fabric (crinoline included).
- 8). Cut off the excess crinoline around the stitches. Hot glue the bottom of the flower to one end of a piece of floral wire.
- 9). Wrap floral tape all around the stem of the flower.
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