Fabric Flowers - More

I checked with the gallery and I had sold a couple of flowers so I decided to replenish those.

This is more of the microfiber cloth I used to make this bag.  Soft and pliable I thought would work well with this 5 circle pattern.

Traced the 4.25' inch circles onto the back of the fabric and cut them out by hand. I folded them in half then quarter and stitched along the raw edge of the shape. Strung all 5 onto the same strong thread and pulled tight. 

I stuffed the hole in the middle with a bit of batting.  I sewed the silver 12" wire to the 1.25" card stock circle and then to the flower and center. 

Then I assembled the center of the flower with a scallop circle of white felt, a green smaller shape and a warm pink button. This element was stitched from the front through the flower and center and the card stock wire piece. After all those layers were secure and hand stitched circle of raspberry polyester fabric to cover the mess of stitches at the back. 

I made another fabric flower with yellow cotton strips. I used a 1" wire ring from a set of cafe curtain rings. I had to close the gap where I cut the extra wire off so I added tape. Should use duck tape next time.

I ripped my strips of yellow cotton a bit narrower than 1/2" but it was hard because the fabric ripped horizontally sometimes.  The strips measured 4" long. I put on 25 strips.

I padded my orange center with batting and stitched that on.  The 12" wire was stitched to a card stock circle and that was stitched to the back of the flower.

I stitched on a 1.5 inch circle on the back to hide all the stitching

Another 5 circle flower.  This was a cotton scarf with circle pattern on it.  The circles measure 4.25 inches in diameter.  This fabric is quite a bit looser weave and cinched a lot tighter than the micro fiber cloth.

I decided to put a yellow felt circle in the middle with French knots with black thread.  It was easy stitching through the thin fabric.

A cardstock circle on the back to which the gold 12" wire was stitched and the securely stitched to the flower. 

The backer was a 1.5 inch blue felt circle to hide the stitching.

This fabric is nice and light but the loose weave may not be the best.

These were delivered to the gallery today!