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Post by lyn on Feb 3, 2012 10:22:30 GMT
Popular Crafts asked us for a beginners tutorial to make a modern, felt, unisex wedding corsage.
It can be made in any colours to suit the wedding and of course it can be adapted for men and women - although actually there's no difference between male and female single flower buttonholes in real flowers.
We showed, step-by-step, how to wet-felt a piece of decorated felt, then how to stitch the buttonhole.
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Post by karen on Feb 3, 2012 11:02:07 GMT
Oh thats very Cool Lyn, love the colors the stitching and the beads  |
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Post by zed on Feb 3, 2012 11:35:46 GMT
That's really nice, Lyn |
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Post by MTRuth on Feb 3, 2012 16:22:20 GMT
Beautiful!
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Post by Shepherdess on Feb 3, 2012 16:29:16 GMT
The stitching really adds to it. When will we be able to see the tutorial?
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Post by lyn on Feb 3, 2012 21:52:01 GMT
Thank you all!
You've all probably got a stash of 'scraps' that could be used for this.
Ann - the tutorial is in the current magazine but we don't have it on our blog yet so I can't provide a link.
However, it's a very basic tutorial and here's the bones of it:
Make two pieces of flat felt one in flower colour and one in leaf colour - we used merino wool and fulled it until approx 30% shrinkage so it was pretty much 'done', but we were gentle and fulled it by lots of patient rolling so that it didn't go lumpy.
Each piece is 3 fine layers with a 4th layer of decoration of scrim, various silks, yarn and contrasting colour merino wisps.
Cut three circles from the piece of felt made for the flower and two leaf shapes from the piece of felt made for the leaves.
The circles and leaves can be whatever size you want, but these circles are 6.5cm, 5.8cm & 4.2cm in width and the leaves are 7.5cm long but one is slightly wider than the other at 3cm and 3.5cm.
Machine or hand stitch round in spirals on the circles of felt. If you do this on a machine you will notice that the felt shapes into a slight dome giving it another dimension as the felt reacts to the tension of the stitching. (Not a good photo - it's 'flattened' the flower!)
Stitch the leaves in the same way following the line of the leaf shape.
Once you have decorated all the pieces with stitching, layer them up and stitch through all five layers to hold them together. When you have a few stitches in place secure a brooch back to the back of the flower by continuing to stitch up and down through the flower to hold everything in place.
At the same time attach some beads.
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Post by Shepherdess on Feb 3, 2012 22:20:55 GMT
I was hopping to see it in the magazine to see what it was like. I don't think we get it here. A subscription is $99 for a years subscription and over 3$0 for a digital one.
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Post by lyn on Feb 4, 2012 8:21:48 GMT
Ann - I have a copy of the pages that the editor sent us and I could send to you attached to an email - would that be any good? It's a pdf of the two pages exactly as they appear in the mag.
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Post by Shepherdess on Feb 4, 2012 14:12:09 GMT
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Post by lyn on Feb 4, 2012 16:43:53 GMT
no probs Ann - you should have a copy now.
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Post by Shepherdess on Feb 4, 2012 21:43:43 GMT
Thank, Lyn I have it. It's a really nice tutorial I may have to give the sewing part a try with my flowers.
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Post by jufergu on Apr 28, 2012 3:36:25 GMT
Wouldn't a felt corsage look good on a wool winter coat? I think I will have to make one for my beautiful red wool coat. Of course, I didn't get to wear it this year because we never had any really cold weather. But now I would have time to make one for next winter.
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