Flirty Fabric Flower Pin

Designer Silvia Dotto of Vancouver, Canada, demonstrates how to make an easy flower pin out of fabric remnants and beads.

Materials Needed:

• fabric remnants
• scissors
• pencil
• scrap paper
• different size paper flower patterns
• needle

• embroidery strands
• large safety pin
• beads
• wire
• wire cutters

Steps 1 and 2

Make three different paper flower petal patterns in assorted diameters and petal shapes.

Trace the patterns on the fabric remnants using a mix of patterns per color of fabric. Make a total of eight flower petals in three different colors.

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Steps 3 and 4

Cut out the flowers and stack by size, color and shape.

Stack the petals and hold them together with your fingers.

Step 5

Stitch through the center using embroidery strands.

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