T-shirt flower

Now for the best part of the t-shirt scarves... the flowers!

What you'll need from your craft station:

good pair of scissors

1 piece of felt

scraps from your t-shirt scarf

paper and pencil
pretty bead (optional)
needle of thread (little sewing here folks)
hot glue gun - sticks

Cut a circle out of your felt and set aside.- this is the base for your pedals
Take your paper and fold it hotdog, then hamburger style (horizontal then vertical)
The best way to describe the cut is to make a heart. *When you unfold it there are 8 pedals
I then took my scraps from my t-shirt and cut out squares - which I then folded hotdog and hamburger style, pinned my paper to the fabric, and cut along the paper pattern.

Here you can see the felt circles, and fabric pedals folded and unfolded.
Each flower takes 8 pieces. I did a two-toned flower with black and grey.

the layout of the bottom layer is the black pedals

Bottom layer - takes 4 pedals

Lay out your flower 'hearts' with the openings all going clockwise.

Put some hot glue on the center of the felt, start applying pedals.

Middle layer - takes 3 pedals

Lay out your flower 'hearts' with the openings going counter-clockwise

Put some hot glue in the middle of your bottom layer, start applying pedals

Center - takes 1 pedal
I took the pedal and opened it up a little and pinched it in the middle to get it to stand up.
Put some hot glue in the middle of your middle layer, place center pedal down - make sure to hold on to it for a few seconds to allow the glue to dry so your pedals stand up.

Once the glue is dry, pull the pedals apart so they are full and open (open up the hearts)

I then threaded a bead and did a quick stitch in the center to secure it. An old broach would look awesome too.

I finished these off with a strip of the t-shirt glued to the back so it could be wrapped around the scarf.... but next time I think I'll do a clip instead - makes it more versatile.

Hope you have as much fun making these pretty lil things as I did :)

xoxo