Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Fabric Flowers


Today on the Hero Blog, Sally Traidman showed us her famous fabric flower pins.  They are amazing, and my mind started going immediately.  Since I have a huge stash of quilter's cottons, I couldn't wait to pull some of them out and try her ideas myself.  I don't have the flower stamp that she used (although it's supposedly winging it's way towards me now), so I substituted this Stencil Flower instead.  Sally actually stuffed each petal of her flower, but since this design is a bit more complicated, I made a quilt sandwich with 2 pieces of fabric and a piece or two of cotton batting in the middle, stitched along the stamped lines on the top piece, then cut the flower out carefully close to the stamped lines.  I did the same thing for the leaves.  It was fun to find a button that was just right for the center of each flower.  Here are pictures of each one individually.  This first one was hand-stitched through 4 layers, and my quilting skills need repolishing.  This one is the most "pouffy", but the stitches are huge! 


The remaining flowers were done using the machine:




Supplies: Hero Arts stamps CG194 Stencil Flower, CG198 Blossoms (for leaves), cotton, cotton batting, buttons

15 comments:

Diane Jaquay said...

I saw these on the HA blog today and thought they were incredible! Beautifully done!!

Alice said...

wow! these fabric flowers are absolutely amazing, Lin! so pretty!! LOVE them!

Anita Rex said...

Gorgeous Lin! I thought making some with that flower too! :>

donna mikasa said...

Oh, so pretty, Lin!! These quilted flowers can be your trademark! Love, love, love them!!

Sarah J Moerman said...

Absolutely AMAZING, Lin!!! And so you! :)

debbie said...

awesome!!!

Lucille K said...

Oh Lin, your fabric flowers are just beautiful. I cannot believe you put these togehter today, you are truly amazing : )

Unknown said...

Just lovely flowers, lin! you are so gifted...!!

Caryl @ cinnamon holiday workshop said...

Lin...these are absolutely amazing....and I love the buttons on them!!! I can't wait to try this. :)

Joy said...

What can I say Lin, GORGEOUS! I love your sweet sewn flowers, I wish I was able to sew like this, wonderful creations! Hugs!

Tanya said...

Lin, these are wonderful, love the fabric and the detail you added with the buttons!

Tiffany Ervin said...

This beautiful flower works just as well! Love what you've done with your collection, so fabulous! So fun to give as gifts too!

stampingandstitching said...

Oh Lin, these are gorgeous! I love your choices of fabric and buttons! Hopefully your large flower will arrive soon!

Ann said...

Oh love these Lin - I have to try one myself. Can't believe you've machine them - they are so NEAT!

Suzanne C said...

Wonderful flowers! I was lucky enough to see Sally's at the show and they were so pretty and I immediately thought of you and Heather with your sewing and stamping skills!