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No Sew Fabric Flower Bouquet

By: Dana Willard

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Create a bouquet of fabric flowers that you don't even need to sew. Follow this tutorial from Dana Willard to create the fabric flowers with a glue gun and wooden dowels. Spray paint is optional!

No Sew Flowers

No Sew Flowers Bouquet

Materials:

  • fabric scraps
  • wooden dowels
  • hot glue gun
  • coordinating felt
  • (optional) spray paint
  • (optional) kitchen sponge

Materials

Ingredients:

Pick out the fabric color scheme you want. This project is perfect for all those fabric scraps you've been stashing away, like a pack rat (see you really do need them.)

Fabric Scraps

Purchase round wooden dowels at your local craft store. You can do any size you want but mine were 3/16 in by 12 inches long. They're inexpensive. About $2 for a bag of 16.

Wooden Dowels

Cut strips of fabric approximately 2x16 inches (no rules here, do whatever size you'd like. This is the size I used)

Cut Fabric Strips

Then, with your fabric strip, wooden dowel, and glue gun....we'll make a flower.

Supplies for Flower

Bunch up the beginning of the flower a bit (this will be the center of the flower). Btw, I'm right-handed and found that it's easiest to hold the flower in my left hand and work the fabric around with my right. If you're a Leftie, do the opposite.

Bunch up Fabric

Stick a dab of hot glue right in the center there and glue the end of the dowel to the center of the flower.

Glue at Center

Don't worry, the tip of the dowel won't show when you're done (unless you want it to! You can push it out more and add something to the top of it for a cool center. I just kept mine simple).

Bunching Fabric

Then, run a few inches of glue along the next section of the fabric,

Run Glue Along Fabric

Like this:

Glue on Fabric

And carefully, oh so carefully (so that you don't burn your hands...which I did....a few times), scrunch bits of the fabric up and press it together at the bottom of the flower. It's like you're "ruffling" the fabric. Just keep doing this, bit by bit. Glue, gather, stick, etc. Until you've gone all the way around. You may try using the back of a pen to help press the glued fabric down to keep from burning your finger.

Ruffle Fabric

And there you go! You should have a pretty blossom like this:

Complete Blossom

But let's finish off that base....

Base Before

Cut a small FELT circle (any color you'd like). Doesn't need to be a perfect circle, just eyeball it. Cut a slit in the middle, a la Mrs. Pacman, like this:

Piece of Felt

Then, glue and wrap the little felt circle around the base of the flower to disguise the messy glue and fabric:

Wrap felt around base

And you're done!

Complete Flower

Wasn't that E-A-S-Y? And really, pretty cute.

Complete Flower in Vase

Okay, let's try variations...Want to color your stems? Easy again!
Grab your favorite spray paint color. Who said stems had to be green? P-sha.

Spray Paint

You need to find something to make the dowels stand up while you spray them. Use whatever you have in the house. Nothing fancy. I grabbed a sponge from under the kitchen sink, poked tiny holes in it, and stuck the dowels down in each hole....

Cutting Sponge

Dowels in Sponge

Ta-Da!

Dowels in Sponge

Okay, take your dowels to a good/ventilated "painting spot".
To contain the paint even more, spray them inside of a box. These bankers boxes have come in more handy for craft projects than for moving.

Spray Painting Dowels

And start spraying away. Make sure everything gets and even coat. Let them dry.

Spray Painted Dowels

The tips of the painted dowels will be left unpainted, so use that part of the dowel when you glue it to the center of the flower, so it's hidden:

Unpainted Dowel End

The orange really adds a splash of color:

Painted Flower

To create the "scalloped" look of the two flowers above, fold your fabric strip in half a couple times:

Fold Fabric

Then cut a wavy pattern or scallops out of the one side:

Cut Scallop

And glue it around the dowel. You can also trim the edges a bit when you're done to sculpt the flower even more.

Complete Scalloped Flower

More ideas....

Add a center to your flower by bunching up a small scrap of fabric and glueing it right into the center:

Fabric in Center of Flower

Try a bright color at the base of your flower:

Bright Felt on Flower

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