Have you seen NotMartha‘s felt dahlia corsages yet? If you haven’t, get your browser over there! ‘Cause this is a must do craft.
Now I know they may seem a little overwhelming, with all the cutting and gluing, but let me tell you, it was totally therapeutic for me and calming. I know, I just said a craft was calming. But it was.
I made mine out of the left over felt from my daughter’s Blue’s Clues Halloween costume, so they are a little on the garish side (has anyone seen dahlia’s in bright blue??), but I’m all about using the on hand stuff. Mainly ’cause I live in the boonies 😉
I also made mine into a hair clip & my mom’s is the brooch. I’m just not cool enough to rock the brooch right now….
Aren’t they just lovely?? Sigh.
Anyways, I made three modifications when I made mine:
1) I made a template for the petals, because I totally fail at cutting things free hand. And I am just OCD enough to want them to match.
2) Megan used FabricTac adhesive and clothespins/heavy pan to glue & hold her petals. Seeing as how I’m super impatient & didn’t have any FabricTac on hand, I used my aleene’s glue gun (thanks Mom for talking me into it – soooo worth the extra money!) with the smallest nozzle and only put a small dab of glue on each petal. I got really good results, where as my first try using tacky glue and holding the petals closed with closepins was a disaster. I ended up as a mess of felt with globs of wood stuck to them. Yuck.
3) I cut the 3.25″ circle down to 3″ and then clipped the edges to make the back less bulky when I glued it on to the cardboard. For some reason just folding it over with my felt ended up being really really thick.
Oh and I also omitted the contrasting back and secret pocket, mainly because I didn’t have any other felt.
I am so excited to wear mine tomorrow – I might even make one for my daughter, just toddler size.
Boot & Looty 
whitney
/ May 9, 2010Ooo, so beautiful! They're really just lovely!