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Safety Notice: Handmade items made from this pattern may contain small parts or long cords that pose choking or strangulation risks. Not suitable for children under 3 years. Please see the full safety disclaimer at sewmag.co.uk/safety.
Show your mum just how much she means to you by making these delightful everlasting fabric flowers that will continue to bloom beyond Mother’s Day. They can be machine or hand stitched and are a great way to use up fabric scraps and odd button stoo!
Make a large flower
Download and print the templates. Cut a front and back for each petal in your chosen fabrics and iron interfacing onto one of them. Pin them right sides together and machine stitch from point A around the top of the petal to point B, using a seam allowance of no more than 5mm. Clip the curves and turn right side out.
Gently tuck the edges of the petal in. Iron flat. Using coordinating thread, stitch around the petal as close to the edge as possible. Repeat until you have enough petals to make a flower. You can make each flower different by appliquéing contrasting fabric onto the petal before you stitch the front and back together.
Stitch a small flower
Sew a set of leaves
Use the big and small leaf templates and follow the same guidelines as for the large flowers.
Create a bouquet
Create a small hole in the middle of both flower heads for the small blooms. Push down onto a wooden skewer by 1cm, put PVA glue under and on top of the flower heads, allow to dry, then snip off the top of the skewer and use PVA to secure a button on top.
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