How to Make Felt Flower Pins/Brooches

This tutorial covers how to make these simple felt flower embellishments, which can be used on cards or scrapbooks, but also turned into a brooch or hairgrip.

To make the first brooch from the left, I cut:
  From Spellbinders Rose Creations:
      2 midnight blue felt flowers, 1 printed cotton flower, 1 felt leaf and 1 linen leaf
  From Spellbinders Nested Circles and Scalloped Circles:
      1 printed cotton circle and 1 felt scalloped circle

Using a contrasting thread, I used a running stitch to attach the cotton circle to the scallop felt circle. They great thing about using spellbinders dies for this is that they leave a faint embossed edge, which is a useful guide for stitching. I ran the same outlining stitch around both leaves and then stitched them to the brooch base.

I also stitched an outline on the base midnight blue felt flower before layering the three flowers, then used a pearl brad to hold them together.

 I glued the flowers to the brooch base with Pinflair gel glue. As I’m using my flower on a card, that was my project finished, but if you want to make this into a brooch, cut 1 additional scallop circle from felt, stitch on a brooch fixing and glue to the back of the flower, to hide all the “workings”.

For this broooch, simply:
cut 2 midnight blue felt flowers, 1 printed cotton flower, 1 felt leaf and 1 linen leaf from Spellbinders Rose Creations, and 1 printed cotton circle and 1 felt scalloped circle from Spellbinders Nested Circles and Scalloped Circles.
Contrast stitch with backstitch the leaves, large felt flower and cotton circle.
Make up a coordinating Hat Pin (see my tutorial on Creating Hat Pins for more instructions on this)
Stitch flower to backing mat, then add glass pearls to centre, and finally push hat pin into place.

For this broooch, simply:

cut flowers from midnight blue felt, printed cotton and mushroom felt leaf, plus leaves in printed cotton and mushroom felt Spellbinders Rose Creations, and 1 printed cotton circle and 1 felt scalloped circle from Spellbinders Nested Circles and Scalloped Circles.
Use a running stitch around the circle and leaves.  Attach 3mm satin ribbon loops to thr leaves, and layer onto backing mat with flower.  Finally stitch a mother of pearl button to the centre.

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