Your Home – August 2019

Make, do & craft

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Add a touch of floral fancy to your seating

with fabric flowers

SHoPPING LISt

l 25cm cream Egyptian draping muslin fabric,

£4.50 per m, Abakhan Fabrics l scissors l needle

and thread l one fat quarter of green fabric

l fusible interfacing l iron l pinking shears

l green embroidery thread l 20.3cm grapevine

wreath, £3, Hobbycraft l glue gun

l pearlescent beads l one self-cover button

1

Begin by making your blooms. For each flower,

cut a 30cm x 5cm strip of muslin, then fold it over

onto itself three times until it measures roughly 10cm

x 5cm and has three layers. Use sharp dressmaking

shears to cut a wavy line down one long edge,

working through all layers, then unfold. To make

slightly smaller flowers, cut a narrower strip.

2

Use a needle and a long length of thread to work

a straight, wide hand stitch down the straight

edge of each fabric strip. Pull each thread gently to

gather the fabric up until it coils round onto itself

and forms a flower shape. Use a few small hand

stitches to hold each flower together.

3

Affix heavyweight fusible interfacing to the back

of a piece of green cotton, then use pinking

shears to cut several leaf shapes out. Fold each one

in half to mark the centre, then hand stitch down

the middle of each to decorate. Use a dab of hot

glue on the back of each leaf to attach them to one

side of a grapevine wreath, then add the flowers

on top. Finish by adding a pearlescent bead to

the centre of each smaller flower, and a self-cover

button (wrapped in muslin) to the middle of the

largest bloom.

Mini summer wreath

Decorate your place settings with

delicate little bunches of blooms

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Wrap thin copper wire

around the wreath

before attaching the

flowers for added

sparkle.

Paper bouquet

1

Begin by making the stems. For each
flower, take five pieces of silver hobby
wire and hold them together. Wrap green
flower tape around them tightly to bind
them. Next, cut the petals – for each
flower, cut eight petal shapes from tissue paper, varying
them slightly in size and shape for a more realistic finish.

2

Make the stamen. For each flower, cut one 15cm x 2cm strip
from both yellow and orange tissue paper, then hold them
together. Snip all along one long edge at 1mm intervals to fringe
the paper. Starting at one end, glue the fringed paper to the top
of your stem, then wrap it tightly, adding a dab of glue every few
centimetres. Leave to dry, then fan out the fringed paper.

3

One by one, glue the petals around the stamen, sticking and overlapping the
bottoms of each one, then fanning them out to create the bloom. Gather your
finished flowers together and wrap a piece of hessian fabric around them, then tie
a length of twine around the bunch to finish.

SHoPPING LISt

l Oasis 18cm silver hobby wire, 90p,

Hobbycraft l Oasis flower tape, £3, Hobbycraft

l multicoloured tissue paper 20-pack, £3,

Hobbycraft l scissors l glue l scrap of hessian

fabric l scrap of twine

Add a few sprigs

of eucalyptus to

your bunch for

added greenery.

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Natural linen napkins, £4.99 each, Linen Me.

Opulence 16-piece cutlery set, £28, Dunelm.