Tutorial Tuesday: Rolled Fabric Flower Tutorial

To make a rolled fabric flower start off with a strip of fabric 2 inches wide by 18 inches long. You can make these in a variety of lengths and widths. For this tutorial I used 2 x 18 inches.

Fold your piece of fabric in half length wise on one end

And then fold again

Starting at the edge of the fabric roll a tight roll. I tend to put a small dab of hot glue at the edge before I start rolling just to give it a bit extra hold. 

Roll your fabric in a tight roll until it is the approximate width of your finger nail. Place a small dab of glue at the end of your roll to secure the center of your flower. 

Now you will start folding your flower. Don’t worry about getting each fold perfect you can go wrong with it. Remember to place a small dab of glue every so often so that your flower doesn’t unroll. 

Once you get toward the end of the fabric, turn it over and place hot glue on the bottom and fold the extra fabric over the bottom. This will finish the bottom of your flower.

Now you can place your flower on a clip or headband and admire your beautiful new hairpiece! These beautiful rolled flowers also make beautiful pins for a shirt or jacket. 

To make the headband I simply used an elastic trim from Hobby Lobby, measured around my daughters head (I cut mine to be 17” and it fit my 3, 4, and 7 year old) and hot glued the edges together and then hot glued the rolled flower onto the headband! 

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