Felt Dahlia Flower Brooch

I found this amazing flower with tutorial {thank you Jen} and decided to make it in honor of Mother's day. Glad I did. This is from Holidash - a blog about holidays and making them beautiful. Very fun.

I called a friend and we had a girl crafty party after the kids went to bed. We ate artichokes {they are such good conversation food} and made felt flowers. An evening can't get much better.
I just love these flowers. Who knew felt could look so good! The orange flower has netting on the top underside and a button for the center. The cream flower has a small twisty flower {see head band tutorial} in its center. I even thought that it would be so cute to make a variety of centers with velcro sewn onto the back that could be changed out to match different outfits.

If you're following the tutorial from Holidash, this is what I did differently. I still cut the pieces the same and the same amount. You only need one sheet of felt for this project.

However, I used hot glue instead of felt or other glue. This goes much quicker although more stringy.

The easiest way I found to glue the petal together was to pre-fold the petal to the gluing position, then open it up just enough to put a small line of hot glue in. This was quite efficient. The rest {besides different centers and eliminating the picture pouch on the back} was the same. I hope you make one with your own twist!

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20 comments:

  1. these are so beautiful! also, I'm making an apron for my mom and I'm totally looking over your whole bog for ideas!! yours are so pretty, i adore the lotta. i also googled apron patterns and found 51 free ones on tipnut.com. we'll see how this goes ...

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  2. THAT is beautiful!
    What an easy, inexpensive and fun project for a daughter of mine!
    Thanks for showing this to us!
    And thank you for stopping by my home!
    We love aprons at our house!
    We even have a potrack in our kitchen that holds our collection! :)
    Blessings to you as you make your home beautiful!
    ~leslie

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  4. Meredith, Anthropology has some AMAZING ideas to look at to. I checked out tipnut.com and it has some good stuff.

    Leslie, that's a good idea to use a pot rack. I really want them displayable and usable. Thanks for the idea!

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  5. How lovely!! I've been meaning to make some felt flowers.

    Hopping over from New Friend Friday.

    Rachel
    www.SewAmbitious.com

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  6. visiting from New Friends Fridy....love this!

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  7. Bonnie! Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving such a nice comment. I really like this flower broach you have created! I will have to try my hand at it too. Thanks for sharing!

    The orange flower is my favorite.

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  8. Gorgeous! I love this flower! Thanks for linking this up.

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  9. Wow! I'll have to try these. Thanks for sharing!

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  10. I saw that same tutorial and have been dying to try it! Thanks for the hot glue tip; I was not looking forward to waiting for the glue to dry!

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  11. This is fantastic! I would love for you to link up to Flower Week @ Singing Three Little Birds! And any other flower projects you may have!
    http://singingthreelittlebirds.blogspot.com/2010/05/flower-week-linky-party.html

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  12. Those are so sweet, they look amazing with a cardigan. Very 1940's. I think I'll try making one. :) erica

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  13. This is soooo fabulous!!! I love love LOVE it!! You should come link up at my Friday link party! Cute blog!

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  14. This is gorgeous! I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com. Grab my "featured" button.

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  15. This turned out so beautifully! I've had it on my list to make since I saw the tutorial on holidash as well!

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  16. I am completely in love! Seriously. I am posting about it on my blog today. (Giving the credit back to you of course) I am so excited I found your blog. You have so many fabulous things. Love love love the apron you recently made too.

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  17. They are absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for your adds on the tutorial, I will definitely be trying this one. I hope mine turns out as lovely as yours.
    pathb4me.blogspot.com

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  18. Pretty darn good! It really looks good on that dress in the picture. The other picture shows how to fold the cloth in making a brooch, but I hope there's a more detailed steps or demo video. Anyhow, good enough to get me hooked on this page.

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