Flower Pillow Embellishment

    Got inpiration for this project from a picture of this flower I took while at

    the National Botanical Garden. This is a simple project any beginning

    sewer can do.

    

        1.    Cut 3-4 inch bias strips.

   

  

  2. Sew those strips together, making one very long strip. Needed length will vary depending on pillow size and on the amount of layers you want. For my 16x16 pillow my bias strip was 6-8 yards, making 8 layers.

   

    3.  Mark center of pillow with chalk or erasable fabric marker.

    4.  Gather a 2ft section of the strip and pin onto front panel of pillow, working from the outside spiraling to the center. Sew with regular stitch.

 

  

    5. Repeat step 4, overlapping the previous circle 2-3 inches till you have reached the center and are finished. TIP: the smaller the circle the more gathers you will need. If there is not enough gathers the strip will stand straight up, instead of lay down flat.

FINISHING TIP: Think about a rose and how tight the petals are in the center, that’s the look we are going for. After getting my strip in place to the desired look, I zigzagged the center, but made sure my gathered strip would hide the zigzag stitching. This will be semi-difficult to sew because of the small space. Hand stitch the center if it is too difficult to get the machine in there.