yes there's one place in town that will
teach you to DIY any sewing idea you may
have and that is Abby's attic Jennifer
Nicola joins us today with some great
ideas for Mother's Day and this is a
start it will last forever yes that's
the best part you can spend money on
this and they will last you for a
lifetime moms cherish it all right are
we starving so Fiona is going to make a
little lavender or even a blue bonnet
flower and they all start the same way
those are great
yeah if you just take a piece of felt
mm-hmm and you fold it in half and
snippet and then you can just roll the
end of it right on with pipe cleaner and
this is just glued together right yes so
basically to get the Saudis together and
if you wanted it okay go ahead and just
leave that and you to literally just
roll it and then you get the pipe
cleaner okay hot glue and then just
there we go there we go there we go and
they just roll yep and then I'm just
gonna you just want to roll it like this
right yes and sort of like layer it down
perfect isn't it fun and you can start
with the same thing here and roll it on
itself to make a little like Dahlia or
something and you can see the dolly on
the front of the pillow and also on the
wreath there oh yeah pretty pretty quick
and easy yeah maybe you could cut a
piece of felt in a different shape and
make closer rows or something like that
yeah we happen to have one right here
check it up oh you should ask that's why
they pay you the big so we'll take a
piece of a three inch by however long
you want fell time I've drawn a little
wavy line and you just start cutting on
that um I just cut a little bit of it I
guess cuz underneath it by the magic of
television either mat so I would follow
this follow this so you would keep going
keep going and then eventually it would
look like my mind's not the color change
but yes so you'll have two different
pieces of the same weighty line and then
again sorry you just fold it right on
itself no glue it up just roll well you
could glue it glue okay a little bit all
right and then just roll it up I'd be
careful not to bring you yeah so there's
a perfect little craft for kids
oh absolutely yes and you could even
hand sew this together too
you know if you're really fancy which I
know you are speaking of hand sewing you
have another great little technique yes
this is a really fun one so we'll take
about a yard of satin it's got to be
kind of wide to give it a nice effect
and you just do a running stitch sort of
in a zigzag pattern all the way sorry
all the way up and down the ribbon so
just and you just mark the lines on
there and you don't have to be very
perfect with this knot just pop it
through a couple of times
mhm I don't like that that's the beauty
of handmade you can just sort of wing it
and okay when it's all gathered up the
flaws go away and it looks lit up and
come through again like this and you do
that all the way down and at this end
then you take the end and start pulling
and just pull and it gathers all and
isn't that beautiful
look how it's so satisfying I love it
look at that see folks if we can do it
you can do it it looks like a little
wisteria flower or you can roll it up on
it and make a little hydrangea oops
that's okay we got another one we'll let
Fiona do this when she's got a lighter
touch
oh no okay all right I saved a portion
of it yeah I'm doing this right yeah
just pull her very very which is a good
lesson you may want to pull from both
ends
you may want to pull from both ends okay
and do it a little bit or maybe use a
stronger thread stronger thread we're
not having me do it okay but if you
don't have classes for folks right yes
we do so we have oh the same thing okay
technical difficulties but that's okay
yes we have classes on this we will use
stronger thread and these flowers are
also very simple to make but it takes a
little bit of origami practice you said
yeah a little bit of patience as we
always say so I'm gonna give you all the
paper version of the folded part right
okay so I'm gonna start with the fabric
one because it's I've had a little bit
more practice but you start yep you fold
it in half
mm like a triangle mm-hm and then you
fold it just follow the number sack on
itself yet all of the numbers uh-huh it
over it over fold the little tail fold
it in half again uh-huh this comes up
and you would so you said right along
that short end yes you'll sew the back
of this and I've got a
all of them shown right here these are
really tiny oh that's what they look
like winters there's them together and
it keeps the petals together and this
would be two of them put together and
then you're like hey and you said to put
your thumb in there like that yes and
kind of fluff them out yes and you would
end up with you know there it is the
finished version right there and folks
can learn this stuff of course you have
classes right for you do all levels all
levels any level really kids can do this
it just takes a little bit of patience
if you'd like more information about
that and also about how you can now
participate in that beautiful quilts
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