No-Sew Fabric Flowers Tutorial

Usually I hate the tutorials that claim to be easy or no-sew and then require some obscure bonding agent to actually accomplish, but I think this is different.  All you need is a hot glue gun(mine was just a couple bucks at Walmart) and it seriously does make the project simpler.  I’ve made the same flowers by sewing and it works, but it’s a lot faster with the glue gun.

These flowers are really easy and give you a lot of impact for whatever you want them for.  I attached the pink flower above to a baby size headband for one of those fun, giant flower/little baby headbands.  I’ll sew the blue flower to a hair clip for a less over-the-top look.  Ben suggested that you could paint a tree or flower stems on a wall and then attach the big flowers for some 3D wall art.  Whatever you decide to do with them, they’re definitely fun to play with.  Here’s how I made them.

First you’ll need seven fabric squares.

Fold into quarters…

Then diagonally so that the raw edges meet.

Fold down the wings…

so you have a little airplane.

If you fluff it open and pull the point down you can see the petal taking shape.

Go to the underside…

and run a thin glue line to keep your wings from coming up. Not the length of the petal, just the line where my finger is pointing. A little glue along the same line of the top keeps the petal shut.

Keep going….

until all your petals are formed.

See how they don’t quite want to be a flower shape?

Trim the back point(raw edges) off of three of your seven petals.

Then start alternating trimmed and not-trimmed and gluing then together along the back(newly trimmed) edges.

Open them up…

and fluff them open to make sure you have enough petals. My blue flower above needed one more petal to be full enough. Glue the last spot. At this point I added a thin glue line between each pair of petals to make the petals stay open and close together. Again, not to the point, just where they already are close.

Go to the bottom side. See how it’s open? It will feel a bit wiggly and unstable.

Put some glue in the open spots and squish it together a bit.

Back to the top, we have a hole. I’m going to use a button to cover it up.

Yellow?

Pink?

White?

I decided to cover a plain button with some matching fabric. Glue it down!

I’m adding a baby headband. Someone among all the people having babies is sure to have a girl!

Back to the underside, I put the headband over the glued up raw edges.

I’m adding a glue hemmed patch over the headband to cover up the raw edges and finish the look.

And it’s done! The pink flower is made with 6″ squares and measures about 6.5″ across. The blue flower is made of 2″squares and measures about 2.5″ across.

Hopefully this all makes sense to you.  Let me know if you need any more clarification and I’ll see if I can help.  I’d love a pin if you found the tutorial useful.  Thanks for reading!  :)

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