Weddingbee Blog

Back in January, I made some fabric flowers. I won’t post a full tutorial: I used one found on OnceWed and it does a nice job of explaining the super easy process!

For each color, I bought a half yard of cotton fabric, plus a half yard of chiffon because I was in a daring mood. This produced 110 flowers. I also varied the size by using both the spool, suggested by the tutorial, and the bottom of a glass. You can easily make bigger ones than that, too. For the chiffon, which turns out to be evil, I had to cut large squares because I could not trace circles onto the fabric.

It is definitely time consuming, so I recommend using an assembly line approach. I enlisted Ribs and we spread the project out over several days, doing one color each day. I’d say it took over two hours to cut and sew a half yard, with both of us working simultaneously. Ribs took a bit of a shortcut and folded the fabric twice when he was tracing circles, producing four circles at a time instead of two. But seriously, it’s so mindless. You’ll become an expert at threading a needle and tying knots in no time — because that’s the most challenging part of this project.

If you have a ton of patience and perhaps an entire TV series to watch, these are great. I love that it’s a way to completely incorporate the color scheme and a little girly. Now, how do I use these in my wedding?

At first I wanted to do the garland thing, but I wasn’t sure where to hang them without being forced to make even more flowers. For example, the railing at the reception hall would need way more flowers. I’m ambitious, but not THAT ambitious.

Then recently I had a duh moment. I have a giant candy jar that’s too big for candy and a bunch of fabric flowers. I’m not yet convinced it looks good, but maybe it’ll grow on me.

The entire cost was about $25 for a total of 2.5 yards of fabric. I didn’t buy sale fabrics, so you could certainly cut costs there. I’ve ended up with over 100 flowers, though!

Did you embark on a DIY journey with no clear use or application? How did you end up using your creation?