Embellishments

Well, today I was laying out the design for "Evelyn", a black and yellow apron, and the pattern sketch I am mimicking has a waistband, but no belt, buckle, or button. To me that is too boring, so I decided to create a fabric flower to embellish it a little.

When searching the internet for "how to make fabric flowers", I came across a blog that had multiple links for these fun projects (depending upon how you want yours to look.) Little Birdie Secrets' post "fabric flower round up" had ideas for pin-cushions, petal flowers with button centers, rosettes, and peonies...even quite a few ribbon and paper flower links. BUT! I was looking for one to embellish my apron...so...I really liked the peony one, lots of dimension, but it wasn't exactly what I was thinking of. I looked up two others and decided on the fabric flower from Wise Craft.

Wise Craft's:

http://blairpeter.typepad.com/weblog/2006/03/fabric_flowers.html

Little Birdie Secrets :

http://littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com/2009/05/buttercup-bag-and-how-to-attach.html

My Attempt:

Mine is not quite so exciting, but...it's my first attempt!

The other fabric flowers I really liked are "tea cup flowers" from Spin Cushion......The other day, I was getting really frustrated with my pins...you know, the generic straight pins that have the multi-colored balls on the end? Well, there aren't allot of things that I am OCD about, but this is one of them...it drives me crazy to use multiple colors!!! This is partially just a weird twitch, but partially for function as well. If I am working with a light colored fabric, I want to use dark pins, so I can see them (and vise versa), and I like consistency so I don't want to have visible dark pins evenly spaced then have a section that looks like I didn't pin it because there's a different colored pin there. My brain just works that way...I'm visual, I compartmentalize in weird ways! So, the other night I separated them all into groups so I could use one color at a time...my husband walked by a looked at me like I'd lost my mind.

The other issue is that I just flat out don't have a pin cushion...horrible I know, but I don't. And I don't like the tomato ones. So, I've been searching for a cute and unique pin cushion...I think I've found it!

http://theobjectproject.typepad.com/the_object_project/2009/08/tea-cup-flower-series.html

I have not yet attempted them, but simply from the five aprons I have completed I have enough scraps to do a project like this...and I am going to make six little flowers (all slightly different), and I'll have one for each color pin: black, blue, green, red, yellow, and white.

I'll post a photo when I've completed them!