Beautiful Japanese Flowers

I was on a mission to find animal patterns because I have some cute fabric I would love to use on a stuffed animal. In my search, I came across a super cute flower that was pinned to a stylish black bag. It caught my eye and I was curious to learn how to make it. If you are interested in it as well, please check out Women's Day site called "Fabric Flower Charm".

I have seen some flower ideas but nothing as cute as this. So I took on the challenge of creating each petal and putting them together.

It all starts with squares. Since I already had 4" X 4" squares, I used those. I was glad to find a purpose for those squares and they were a great size to start with.


There are several ways of folding but the first one I learned and the ones you see here are called Pleated Kanzashi Petals. I created 10 of them then sewed them together.



I cut out a round piece of the same fabric as the flowers and hot glued it to the bottom of the flower so as the keep the petals together.


To finish off the flower, I placed a cute button that I have had for a while. It matched perfectly!





As I mentioned above, there are various ways of making the petals so I tried a few different ones. Here's an example of a different flower I created.


A fun thing that can be done (and there are MANY things you can do) with these flowers is layering flowers like below as well as mix and matching fabrics.


This was such a fun project although I am not sure what I will do with these. I have a few ideas such as hair piece which is the original idea with these but I have not decided what I will do with the ones I made yesterday. Ideas are welcome!!