Fabric Flowers

Dr. Maris of Philippine Heart Center gives her fedora a twist by pinning rose fabric brooches.

Flowers are a common subject for our pieces. Aside from bead embroidery, we also explore other materials in making them, such as fabrics. We collect and use them in making flower accessories such as; brooches, necklaces, and bracelets. You can also use them as accents or components to other projects, and in this case we used them as hat fascinators. Here are some photos of the flowers we made using different fabrics and techniques. You can also visit Skip to my Lou to check out how to make different kinds of fabric flowers.

We use different fabrics from laces to denim to make these flowers.

FABRIC FLOWER 1: 

Kanzashi Flowers: Each petal is folded individually and sewn together to resemble a flower. We added, as a personal touch, buttons and beads on the middle to represent the pistil

"Kanzashi (簪) are hair ornaments used in traditional Japanese hairstyles.

In the English-speaking world, the term "kanzashi" is occasionaly applied to the folded cloth flowers that traditionally adorned tsumami kanzashi, the technique used to make those flowers."

With a use of a long sash, you can pin the Kanzashi brooches and make them as part of the design of your hairpiece.

They make great "Thank You" tokens.

Our Kanzashi Flowers can be used as a decorative accent to a plain necklace.

FABRIC FLOWER 2: 

Lace flowers: Instead of using pre-made ribbons, we used lace as our choice to make these flowers. Sometimes, fabrics such as charmeuse, georgette, or satin are used in place of the laces. This technique is the simplest form since you only have to use a running stitch for the flower's base, then the end of the thread is pulled to make the petals. 

Lace flowers made into necklaces

Fabric Flower Rings

 

With our Aging Winter Collection, we combined velvet flowers and bead embroidery.

 

FABRIC FLOWER 3:

Rose Flowers: It's very easy to make rose fabrics. You can refer to this blog Billie Monster for the tutorial. 

You can use the rose fabric flowers as accents to your projects.

We made these Boho Bands for Maita's Entourage.

FABRIC FLOWER 4

Distressed Flowers: The fun part with making the distressed fabric flowers is that you can use "retaso" (scrap fabric) to make the details. These fabrics give these flowers quirkiness and edge. 

We used distressed flowers as the main design to our denim bracelets.

The "retaso" fabrics make the flowers more interesting.