Happiness is Homegrown: October 2011

Sunday, October 9, 2011

I don't remember if I've mentioned this yet here on the blog, but I'm in love with Pinterest. I pin a lot of pictures from blog posts, and a current favorite among other pinners is my yellow hair flowers. So, I started thinking "Hmmm... I wondering if I'm getting all these hits from people hoping to find instructions. Well, I grabbed my camera and all my supplies, and here are the step by step instructions....

Okay, so here are my supplies. Felt, fabric, scissors, a pencil, a glass and some good music. Like how Hanson's "Middle of Nowhere" album matches the flower? Yeah, I like that, too.

So, you'll take a glass with roughly the same circumference as your ideal flower (You can use a roto-cutter or other cool stuff like that, but I just use a glass.) and trace a circle onto the underside of your fabric. Now do it seven more times. Next, you'll cut them all out.

You should have eight of these.

Now, fold a circle in half....

Fold one end toward the middle...

And then the other ...

Now place some glue in the center to make sure both sides stick. (I don't recommend laying the glue gin on the table for this step, however, I only have two hands and one of those hands needed to take a picture. Now, repeat this step with the rest of your circles. Now, it's time to really get gluing...

Put a small blob of hot glue on the right half of your little triangle. (Forgive the flash photography!!)

You guessed it! You're going to put the left side of another triangle onto the aforementioned glue glob.

Side view.

The next triangle will go here. Left side glued to right side again. Repeat until you have a lovely, round flower. You might find you have an extra triangle, maybe not. Anyway, just tuck the right half of the end under the left side of the beginning.