So I had a shower to attend on Friday. My husband's cousin Kattie is pregnant with long awaited twin girls. I'm not into the whole twins matching thing...so I opted for similar-but-different in the hair bows I made (because no little girl can have too many bows).
The first set:
Made of felt and foldover elastic. I took this tutorial and adapted it. Mostly made it smaller! I used 3.5 inch squares instead of 7 inch squares. I found it was too hard to fold the felt into fourths and cut it...so I just folded it in half and cut it (here's my template, if you want it). Once each petal piece was sewn, I attached it all together on the headband with hot glue.
Second set:
I based these flowers on a tutorial for making paper flowers. I used a salad plate to make the circle from which I cut the spiral...but that was a little big...I ended up cutting off quite a bit! And just glued sparkly silver beads in the center (how I love my hot glue gun).
Third set:
I just kinda twisted and folded in my own way, but here is a good rolled rose tutorial (the actual tutorial is a PDF and I can't get the link to work...so just scroll down the page until you come across Free Projects on the right side bar). Oh, and I was extra zealous on the felt backing for the burlap rose to make sure none of that itchy (but totally cool looking) burlap would touch the baby's head. Trimmed out a little bit of the center of each rose so I could sink the 8 mm brown pearl into it. More hot glue.
Fourth set:
My favorite! Braided roses made with two patterned calicos and one solid broadcloth each. Cut (or tear) three strips of fabric (mine were 12 inches long and half an inch wide, which made about a rose about an inch and a quarter in diameter). Either hot glue or sew together at one end. Braid (how tightly you braid changes the look of the rose). Sew or hot glue the ends together to hold braid. Roll up, gluing as you go. Finish by tucking the end of the braid on the bottom of the rose and gluing into place. The end!
The leaves are also pretty easy. Cut a 3 inch square of fabric. Fold in half to make a rectangle, then take the top two corners of the rectangle and fold down into the center, forming a triangle (this puts all the unfinished edges together along the bottom). Baste along the long bottom (unfinished) edge of the triangle. Gather. And there you go.
And now, back to sewing my daughter's new dress...we're getting our family pictures taken tomorrow, and I figured out what I wanted my son and husband to wear, but my little girl just didn't have anything that would suit me! So I headed off to the fabric store...I'm almost done with the dress, then I'll just have to make the little bolero jacket (but I'm also going to attempt making my own bias tape...wish me luck!)
