Hydrangea Wreath

Know what I love more than making beautiful things?

Making beautiful things for other people.

My inspiration came from my friend, Dara, of Teach. Craft. Love. who makes beautiful wreaths like these:

Aren't those awesome?! I couldn't help but copy her idea!

Since I've been on spring break this past week, I've actually been able to make a couple wreaths (I'll post one more later this week), do a little sewing, and visit friends and family. I just love being a teacher! 

I made the Hydrangea Wreath for my Granny.

I didn't do a tutorial on this one because it's crazy easy. You can do this with any kind of florals. Always wait to buy them when they are 50 % off though. 

I simply took off the long stems on the hydrangeas and wired the blooms onto the grapevine wreath. To get all the little sprigs, I take a big sprig apart (as you can see in the picture below) and glue them all around.

I placed them all around the wreath and hot glued them down inside the branches. I held the sprigs down against the branches with one of the hydrangea stems I'd removed. Then I hot glued the letter on. 

The colors are so sweet. I'm kinda lovin that peachy color for spring!

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Go ahead, click that button. Everyone needs to go check out the wonderful Easter projects going on at Kiki Creates from now through April 14th!
So I'm sure you all know about the fabulous Kiki on Kiki Creates.  sourceThere she is.She makes amazing things like this:Flower Pillow by Kiki Createsand this:

Wreath by Kiki Creates
And does fabulous tutorials on beautiful things like this:Ruffle Duvet Cover by Kiki CreatesYeah, my jaw dropped like yours when I saw that bed, too. Beautiful.
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Ooh! Don't You Look Just Like Spring?!

Oh hey....

Like my new spring pin? 

Me, too. I kind of love it. 

Here she is again. 

I made it just like this one:

I really liked the idea of that flower, and the blue was perfect for my Go Cats Wreath, but it was begging for some spring-y fabrics. 

I did everything the same in my tutorial, except instead of hot gluing the layers and the center, I hand-sewed them. I sewed the layers together first (lay them how you want them and then stitch up the center several times). Then I sewed the pearls to the middle of the ruffled center part and then sewed it to the layers. 

 I did hot glue the felt back. 

Love.

I hot glued that alligator clip on there too-just in case I wanted to do this.

Or this.

While, the idea to put it in my hair may have been a good one, I felt like I looked like a 2nd grader a little bit with a huge 80's style scrunci. A cute scrunchie, but that look should probably be avoided.

 In love with this fabric. 

It reminds me of vintage sheets. After I made this, I went and bought more.

It's Moda-Fig Tree. 

I'm on Spring Break this week! Too bad I have to spend most of tomorrow finishing that crazy research paper. Then I'll be visiting family and friends. I am working on some gifts that I'll show you later this week.

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Another Fabric Flower Tutorial

I wasn't sure what to name this flower. Any suggestions? 

This flower is really easy, but takes a little more time than others to create.  

I got the inspiration from this felt rose I made back at Valentine's Day for my Heart Wreath. 

To make the felt rose I used a tutorial at  The Purl Bee

To make the felt rose I used a tutorial at  The Purl Bee.

 I didn't want to use felt, though, so I came up with my own way to use cotton.

Step 1: Create your flower layers.

(Please excuse the bad quality of pictures here. My craft room is not well-lit at night.)

Now you have one flower layer. Make 3 or 4 more. I think I used 5.

Step 2: Create your ruffly center 

Take a strip of fabric about 3 inches wide, fold in half and press. Then do a basting stitch along the raw edges of the fabric. Pull one of the threads at then end to create the ruffle.

Fold down the end here to hide that raw edge of fabric.

Tip: Don't cut the thread you used to ruffle the strip of fabric until the very end of this step. If you cut it, too soon, the ruffle will start to un-ruffle. 

As you can see, this part does not have to be that pretty or perfect.

Now you can cut that thread coming out the back that was used to ruffle your strip of fabric.

Done with the center!

Step 3: Assemble your flower.

Your flower will still be flat here. In order to make it look a little more natural (because blue polka dot flowers are so natural-looking), you need to add a few dots of hot glue to the sides of the ruffled center and then fold the petals up around it and hold.

This will make the petals come up around the center better.

Done!

It might have looked better with the same color felt as the cotton behind it. I haven't found any royal blue felt though, and I had white on hand.

I wanted to make a few more in some different fabrics, but ran out of time this week. 

Research paper is due next week. After that I should be able to get more posts up. Yay.