In other posts I have referred to the importance of embellishments to your projects. Cool buttons, satin ribbon, rick rack, decorative stitching or whatever says WOW to you. One day I was thinking about Easter baskets for the grandchildren and thought how fun it would be for the girls if their baskets had flowers in them. Since I have several popcorn tins full of ribbon, I thought I might try to make ribbon flowers.
I checked YouTube to see if I could find a tutorial. I like to see it happen. I believe that makes it easier to learn. Oh my goodness, I found so many showing how to make so many different kinds of flowers. I urge to check them out. One stood out to me Vintage Handmade Organza Ribbon Flowers, filmed by mybutterflykisses12. If this is something you would like to try, here is the video.
and here are my first attempts. The variations are endless. As you see I added feathers to one and buttons to the other 2. All the best ones, of course, went into the Easter baskets.
I have lots and lots of buttons, many are just singles, you know left-overs from other projects. Also my mother, my aunt and a few of their friends heard I was looking for buttons and they all sent me their button stash. SEW FUN!
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