Monday, April 11, 2011

April Flowers

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I made Keira and Kalei a bunch of hair clips over the past couple of weeks.  It's helped compensate for the wintry snowy weather we've had.  I have to say, they were so fun to make, and with most of them taking all of 10-15 minutes, and the endless possibilities, the more I made, the more I wanted to make.  I hung some on some yellow ribbon for easy access and so they won't get squished in a box.

Here are all of the fabric flowers I made the past couple of weeks, most of them using on line tutorials.  It's an addiction..
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This brooch made of AMH's Chocolate Lollipop fabric, tute here.  It's thicker, so good for a purse decoration, maybe not so much for hair:
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I used Kelly's from Sewing in No Man's Land tutorial to make these pinwheel / stacked flowers.  The top right deep purple one is made of cheap acrylic felt I think I paid 25 cents/sheet for.  The light blues are real wool felt, and while thicker and sturdier, and probably won't pill like the acrylic, I don't see much of an aesthetic difference for $3.25 more per sheet...unless you're gonna buy wool felt to actually felt it, but for these hair clips, acrylic works fine, and is actually lighter weight for little girls' hair.P1140333

 I used this tute to make these felt (right) and cotton rosettes:
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This one was just some trim I had that I rolled up and sewed a big button onto:
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These stacked flowers clips are sort of my design.  The one on the left is to match Kalei's Liberty for Target dress:
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Here are some other hair clip/brooch tutes I wanna give a whirl:
And here's a whole awesome blog dedicated to hair bows and fabric flowers.

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