A bucketful of roses

Yesterday I was catching up on some TV episodes I had recorded, but felt it didn't need all of my attention.  So, I grabbed a sheet of felt, some buttons, twine and punched circles of paper.  Well, I did a few things with combinations of paper, twine, buttons and felt, but all pretty standard stuff and not very exciting.

Then I decided to make some felt flowers.  Now, the method for making these flowers isn't exactly a secret - versions of them in felt or paper have been around for  a while now, but I wanted to make some quite flat blooms, in various sizes, and thought I would experiment a bit.

The method for these is to cut a circle of felt, then start at the outside and cut a spiral into it towards the middle.  I mad mine quite a short spiral, and didn't worry too much about how regular it all was.  I then rolled it up from the middle, and once I reached the end I took a needle and ordinary sewing thread and stitched through the bottom of the flower, making sure that (a) the thread didn't show from the top and (b) I caught all the layers.  I am paranoid about things falling off/unravelling on my pages, so I thought this was worth the effort.

I made about 7 flowers before I got bored in various sizes.  For the largest, the rough circle of felt I cut was no more than 5cm in diameter, and for the smallest it was more like 2.5cm.  As I finished them I popped them in this little green bucket which I had used to sort the buttons into.  They looked so cute I decided to photograph them just like that, on my windowsill.  That's what I call a satisfying morning's work.