Saturday 9 April 2011

Layered Flowers

New in my Etsy shop - a quartet of layered felt flower brooches:


All the flowers are made up of lots of individual hand-cut petals, sewn together to make large corsages and topped with a cluster of seed beads. The larger flowers are a massive 5 inches (12.5 cms) across.

The orange and purple flowers are made from synthetic craft felt...


... and the pink and turquoise flowers are made from a couple of sheets of super thick handmade felt I bought last year. I didn't buy much of the handmade felt, so there's only one of each flower available.

The texture of the felt is gorgeous, and it creates a completely different look from the standard craft felt.


My favourite is definitely the turquoise flower - I'm really pleased with how nice the silver beads look against the bright turquoise blue.


Turquoise is one of my favourite colours. I probably use it too often but it's so hard not to be drawn to the colours I love when crafting and buying supplies!

UPDATE: My large felt flower design is now available as a sewing pattern! Visit my shop to see all my printable PDF patterns:

7 comments:

Awok's Kiter Craft (Awin) said...

love all of them... sweet colour... :)

Lorraine said...

Wow! These felt flowers are stunning. I love paper flowers but these are really special. Lorraine x

Em said...

congratulations on being in country living this month! I was really excited when I saw your brooches x

MiniBinoy said...

woww!!!! these are fabulous!!!

Bugs and Fishes said...

Thanks everyone, I had lots of fun making these :)

Em - it was super exciting being featured in CL, I love that magazine!

eiela said...

i love your handmade. nice flowers..

Jessica Boling said...

these are great! I love the colors you chose.