Carolin suggested we make fabric brooches the same way they had made them at nursery. So she taught me.
First we cut out a few little fabric flowers in different colours and patterns.
Then they had to be glued on top of one another with a glue gun. And safety pins glued on the back with the glue gun, and they are done.
We used double sided tape, which I had just happily found in my living room. I do not know (and do not want to know) how it got there (well, along with all sorts of other building supplies). But waste not, want not. That splendid roll of tape suited my craft table wonderfully.
In a word, we glued a few layers of fabric flowers on top of one another with a splendid button on the very top. With double sided tape, of course.
The edges of the flowers we finished with Tulip fabric gel bought from Vunder. So they would not fray and would look a little more finished. In the end the colour took several days to dry, but the wait was worth it.
Right at the end we glued, with tape and a little square of denim, safety pins onto the backs of the brooches.
Fabric brooches
Fabric brooches
Since making and gluing fabric flowers was quite simple and effective, the little craftswoman made a card and a picture with a flower too. You will not see the card, as it is going off as a surprise present. But you can certainly look at the picture. A thoroughly splendid picture, I think. Entirely her own work, while grandmother, weak from all the gluing, rested her old bones in front of the television.
Fabric flowers
And since I now had such a splendid tape at my disposal, I took out the little boxes made recently at the craft circle and decorated them.
One box got satin roses. The other got all sorts of sewing themed bits and pieces, bought over the years and waiting for a good and proper place of their own. This time the feeling was that you can never have too much of a good thing.
