Fabric Flowers
National Quilters Circle provides several quilting guides for our community. Here you will find how to create ruffled roses, 3D flowers for your quilts, and flower embellishments. Use this board to help guide you through your next flower quilt!
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5 Fabric Flower Ideas for Your Next Quilt
Flowers are a fun way to add some 3-dimensional interest to any quilt. Whether you are looking for fabric flower ideas for your next art quilt or you are looking for the finishing touch to make your quilt come together perfectly, this list of hand-selected tutorials highlights exciting ways to create a variety of fabric flowers. We hope these tutorials will inspire you to look for fun ways to incorporate different flowers or 3D embellishments onto your quilts.
Determining Fabric Calculations for Quilts
Before beginning the fabric calculations based on a quilt block or design, Heather explains how much workable fabric there is per yard of fabric purchased. This can vary depending on the width of fabric you are buying, but in general quilting cotton has approximately 40” of workable fabric width per yard. Heather then explains how to determine the amount of fabric needed to make one quilt block in a design. Once this is done, the amount of fabric needed for the one block can be multiplied by..
Create a DIY Cactus Pincushion | National Sewing Circle
To make these fun diy cactus pincushions all you need are the pattern pieces for the cactus you wish to make, or for all three, small amounts of felt, polyester fiberfill, a small pot and some craft glue. Additional optional supplies include small river rocks and pom poms. Ashley first shows you how to cut out all of the pattern pieces and explains that each different pincushion has different numbers of pattern pieces.
5 Fabric Flower Ideas for Your Next Quilt
Flowers are a fun way to add some three-dimensional interest to any quilt. Whether you are looking for fabric flower ideas for your next art quilt or you are looking for the finishing touch to make your quilt come together perfectly, this list of hand-selected tutorials highlights exciting ways to create a variety of fabric flowers. We hope these tutorials will inspire you to look for fun ways to incorporate different flowers or 3D embellishments onto your quilts.
Oh Sew Cute Sewing Challenge Project 4: Felt Succulents
We are already on to week four of the Oh Sew Cute Sewing Challenge and this week brings a super cute hand sewing project- the felt succulents! These succulents are cute on their own but look even better when grouped together into a fun arrangement.