{{{fabric flowers & fellowship}}}

{once a week, i get together with my dear friends helena and julia and we have a craft day. we do a craft, while our husbands do "manly" things. i love getting together with these girls. we spend our time laughing [a lot], talking, listening, and encouraging one another. it's one of my favorite times during the week.}

this week we decided to make fabric flowers [it was julia's turn to pick a craft.]

they were super easy, and so much fun to make! we met at the craft store, and of course, grabbed some coffee before heading back to julia's house. [can't have fellowship without coffee, right?]


{materials}

2"x44" fabric
fabric scissors
hot glue gun
anything else you might want to add [tulle, lace, pearl pins, pin for the back]

{instructions}
1. cut fabric 2"x44".
2. fold the fabric in half [hotdog style].
3. make a knot at one end of the fabric [this will be the center of your flower].

4. wrap the fabric around the the knot a couple times, hot glue the fabric, and continue wrapping it around a few more times. [the looser you wrap it, the larger the flower will be.]
5. hot glue the fabric again. begin twisting the fabric every once in a while, at the same time continue wrapping the fabric.

6. when you have about two inches left of fabric, hot glue the left over fabric to the back side of the flower.
7. add pearl pins [if you wish.]
8. add a pin back [if you wish.]
9. ta-da!


{some ideas of how to use these flowers}
hair accessory
accessory for pillows
pin for clothes

{love these girls! julia, me, and helena}

i would say it was a successful craft day.