Fabric Flower Favor Bouquet

As I was getting ready for the Avant Garde Craft Show in Westlake, I came up with an additional way to display my flower clips. I made them into a favor bouquet. What is special about the bouquet is that it can be dismantled at the end of a special event and each flower can be given away as a favor to attending guests. The flower clips are attached to ribbons which crisscross a styrofoam sphere. Green silk leaves mounted on wires fill in the spaces in between the flowers. It was really a fun thing to make. It could easily morph into a pomander or handheld bouquet.

Hand Dyed Silk Flower

Barb Bloom of Images in Bloom was a vendor at Vermilion in Bloom's Gardeners Fair. She asked me to make something out of one of her hand dyed scarves. I made two orgami petal flowers.

Dress Hem Turned Fabric Flower

This flower came from a hem remnant. It was a woven textual purple black fabric. Again thick, so it will turn into a pin rather than a hair clip.

Skirt Hem Repurposed into a Flower Pin

A client asked for a rush on 5 lined skirt hems. I said yes, and was able to salvage enough scrap from one of the hems to make a flower pin. The fabric was a textured woven blue with a bit of irridecences. It was a thicker and heavier flower and rather than adding a hair clip, I added a pin back. The customer decided to buy it when she picked up her hemmed garments. Success!

Converted Wedding Dress Pillow

A client asked me to make a decorative pillow and garter out of her wedding dress. She was married in the 1970s and her dress was modestly beaded and simple. Her daughter is getting married and she plans to use the pillow in the ceremony to hold the rings. The pillow features the bodice front. I padded out the bust slightly to give it extra contour. The pillow has a cotton foundation,an invisible zipper, and down filled pillow form. The garter is made from the gowns bottom edge and the lace was taken from the veil. The fabric flower in the picture is my own additional embellishment.

fabric flowers designs

Here are a few new fabric flower designs. Two of which have a second fabric contrasting and accenting the petals. Each petal requires an orgami folding technique.

New Fabric Flower Designs

I am now experimenting with kanzashi fabric flower designs. It is similar to orgami paper folding but with fabric. All of these flowers will be affixed with an alligator clip on the back. They can be worn on a jacket, shirt, or in the hair. Lovely!

Fabric Flowers Embellish Prom Heels

Thank you Kristen Baker for modeling fabric flowers on your lovely bright purple prom dress heels.

Shoe Embellishment

Shoes with flower clips.

White Satin Fabric Flowers

These flowers were made from a wedding dress. They will receive alligator clips on their backs for easy embellishment.

Bridesmaid Dress Makeover

Spring cleaning gleaned several bridesmaid dresses found. I can place each dress with a particular wedding except a blue satin dress from the 90s. As a way to try and remember, I decided to cut it up and make it into something else. The blue dress is turning into lovely fabric flower clips.

A Beautiful Flower

A beautiful flower accessory modeled by Eileen Costello.

Flower on the Lapel

Thank you to Pastor Mark Bogen for wearing one of my flowers on his lapel.

Hair Clip-Neckline

These lovely flowers can easily adorn a neckline. Thank you Morgan Walker for modeling!

Hair Clip Style

For my second picture, we have the traditional hair clip look. Enjoy!

Flower Hair Clip

I am trying to come up with different ways to display the flower hair clips I've been making. I am creating a pictorial slide show on my Ipad for an up coming craft show. The slide show will run as a visual display on my table. Any ideas? I'll be posting what I come up with. These flowers have an alligator clip on the back and can be used in many ways. Thanks for any feed back.

Fabric Flower Hair Clips

As I prepare for an upcoming craft show, I have added a new product to my line. I discovered a vendor on etsy who makes partially completed fabric flowers at a reasonable price. They come as two parts, the petals and the covered button. Then I hand stitch these parts together to form the flower and add a clip finding. I just received a hundred pieces parts and am starting to assemble. To learn more about my sewing visit my website, www.sewingbymaudy.com and thanks for looking.