How to Make Fabric Flowers – 10+ Fun Ways To Use Your Scraps
It’s easy to make fabric flowers using the variety of fun methods in this post – we’ve found over 10 different ways to make them!
You can add flowers to clothes, headbands, and bags, use them as decorations around the house, or use them instead of a bow when gift wrapping.
You could even make a whole bunch of them to gift – an ever-lasting bunch of flowers to a special someone on Valentine’s Day.
You’ll find no-sew flowers, intricate, colorful designs, and big, bold flowerheads.
Whatever type of flower project you’re looking for, each fabric flower tutorial is simple to follow and easy to make, so you’ll have your own fabric flowers in no time!
And it’s a great way to use up all those small fabric scraps!
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How To Make Fabric Flowers
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Fun Fabric Flower Patterns
I love receiving bunches of fresh flowers, but they inevitably wilt and die after a week or so.
That's why I love fabric flowers so much - they'll look exactly the same years after making them as they did on their first day!
They make lovely gifts and can be used to accessorize almost anything you want to add a floral touch to!
You can make these flowers out of any leftover material you have laying around. Many fabric flowers are made from one piece of fabric, but I especially like this method because it's a way to use up all your tiny scraps as you make each of the flower petals individually.
I like to choose color-coordinating different fabrics and then either matching or complimentary buttons. You can hand stitch each raw edge or use a sewing machine.
I love how realistic this flower brooch looks once finished. You'll need to choose a fabric with a high synthetic fiber count that will melt easily when you melt it to create the curled petals.
This flower has beads in the center, and a pin on the back to allow you to wear it on your clothes as a broach, or add it to something else you want to make pretty - like a bag!
How adorable are these bright yellow daffodils? Even if it's not spring outdoors yet, you can bring a bit of new life into your home by whipping up these simple yet very sweet-looking flowers.
Make a whole bunch of these daffodils to display as a bunch in your home. All you'll need is a few yellow fabric squares and yellow fabric strips.
This is such a clever idea! If you're looking for a project to gift to someone special in your life, then this plant pot of flowers might be just the thing!
The tutorial calls for a Cricut machine, but that's only to speed the process up, so if you don't have one, you can just cut the fabric the good old-fashioned way - with scissors or a rotary cutter.
Can you imagine being able to keep your wedding bouquet forever and perhaps even pass it down through the family as future generations tie the knot?
You could mix and match all your favorite colors and even make matching flowers to use as buttonholes.
If you are interested in more upcycled wedding ideas check out our sister site Upcycle My Stuff.
These folded felt flowers only take minutes to make. It's as simple as cutting out the flower template, folding a few times, and securing the folds with a few stitches.
The template contains four designs and three sizes so you can play around and find the right flower for whatever you need!
Make these cute flowers using fabric and wire, and turn them into decorations, table centre-pieces or add them to a garland to decorate for the holidays.
The tutorial is extremely simple and easy to follow, and due to the clever use of wire in the flowers, you can bend and shape them to make them look very realistic.
Perhaps you're looking for a quick and easy project to make with your children. These adorable fabric flowers only require some fabric, a dot of hot glue, and a button.
They're great for embellishing small projects and can even be used as magnets for your family planner.
These clever lilies are surprisingly simple to make. They're built around non-edible cake-decorating stamens and attached to wire so you can bend them into shape.
The tutorial includes a printable template that makes putting these flowers together super easy, and the best part is that there is zero sewing involved!
Great for beginner sewers, these simple flowers are made from five fabric circles of fabric sewn together to create the petals.
If you love learning visually, you'll be happy to know there is also a video tutorial to follow along with.
These beautiful flowers are another simple make. They take less than ten minutes to make, from start to finish.
You can use old earrings and beads taken from broken parts of jewelry to make the center of the flower. Add them to hair clips to make a really unique hair accessory.
This is another great flower to make if you want to make a dent in your scrap fabric stash.
The step-by-step tutorial doesn't require any sewing whatsoever, you'll just need to cut the petal shapes out, and glue them together with a hot glue gun.
I love the fullness of these beautiful fabric flowers, they look almost like pom poms! While this one does take a little longer to make than the rest of the flowers in this roundup, I think the end result is worth that bit of extra effort!
You can make this sewing project any size, color or texture, and make a whole bunch of them to make hair accessories and anything else you want to make pretty!
Top Tips On How to Make Fabric Flowers
- Use your flowers to embellish your handmade gift bags, which you could even fill with handmade gifts for a friend or relative who really appreciates the thought that goes into DIY gifts.
- Get creative with the materials that you use. Making fabric flowers is a great way to use up an old t-shirt, bedsheet, or tablecloth. I love using denim in many projects, from denim placemats to denim quilts. I think denim flowers would look amazing!
- Make your flower cutout realistic by embroidering veins and patterns onto your fabric with your sewing machine. Depending on the fabric you use, you can also use heat to curl or singe the ends of the flowers.
Frequently Asked Questions
No sew fabric flowers are the simplest flowers to make. Simply cut out the shape of the flower you like, full round petals for roses, more elongated pointed petals for flowers like lilies.
Use your first cut-out as a template and make three or four more copies. Using glue dots or fabric glue, stick the pieces of fabric together. If you want a more 3D-looking flower, rouch the fabric in the center to make it look more realistic.
Make a large flower out of fabric by following the tutorial above in this roundup.
One of the important things to remember when making a larger flower is to choose a sturdy material that will hold its shape or a lightweight material that you can manipulate to hold its shape.
To make a bouquet, choose your favorite flowers and find tutorials to make each of the individual types of flowers. You’ll find many in this roundup.
Try to choose flowers that complement each other and go well together in real flower bouquets. You could even make some fabric greenery and leaves to tie the whole bouquet together.
There are tonnes of creative ways to use fabric flowers. Why not use one of these suggestions:
• Add them to your clothing
• Attach them to bags
• Make them into children’s headbands
• Wedding garters
• Use them to embellish decorations around your house
• Turn them into a bouquet
• Use them as a decoration for gift wrapping
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