How to Make Fabric Flowers for Handbags

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Feb 20, 2011
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Image Making fabric flowers for leather bags can be as simple as cutting out petal and leaf shapes and gluing them onto a vinyl purse, or as complex as multi-layered creations of fabric, feathers and beads that are sewn together. Let your imagination be your guide when you embellish your accessories.

Cut the fabric into 5-inch squares. One square will make one flower. Larger squares will make bigger flowers. Small squares will be difficult to work with.

Fold the fabric three times, like a fan or an accordion, creating pleats. Iron the pleats and then use straight pins to hold the pleats in place.Sew the pleats in place with a narrow seam along each side.

Turn the pleated fabric so that the pleats are facing the side and then pleat them again, from the bottom to the top. Iron, pin and stitch the pleats in place the same way you did before.

Hold the pleated fabric square in one hand and use the forefinger on your other hand to push up from the bottom center of the fabric, creating a dome shape.

Pull the corners toward the bottom center.Pinch the top center of the dome and twist it in one direction and then press it down. Lay it flat and iron the flower shape into place. Make one small stitch through the center of the flower to help it keep its shape.

Cut leaf shapes from green fabric and sew or glue them onto the designer handbags before you attach the flowers.fabric handbags and cute handbags is completed.
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Cindy Bolley
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HHCTB?

I am trying to figure how I sew them on a ready made purse???
You must mean do this to a purse you are making?
I am sure these flowers would be very pretty
Cindy

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