Guest Post Felt Rosette Pins by Elizabeth & Co

Mother’s Day is less than a week away. Sharon has a super tutorial just in time for you to make some really pretty Felt Rosette Pins! 



Hi everyone! I'm Sharon from Elizabeth & Co. and I'm so excited to be visiting Gail today! You can usually find me in my garage painting furniture. But today I have a fun little craft project to share that is just perfect for Mother's Day.

My daughter Megan visited recently and brought along these sweet felt rosette pins.

 

Don't you love the soft pretty colors?

Megan found a beautiful selection of wool blend felt in 70 yummy colors on etsy at Benzie Bazaar.

Not only did I want to wear these pins, I wanted to learn how to make them too. So, let's try it together!

Each rosette is made from two circles of felt. Megan suggested making a template so that each rosette would be similar in size. One circle should be slightly larger than the other. Juice glasses from your kitchen work perfectly. In this case, the larger circle was just under three inches.

After you have two circles of felt, make three cuts in each circle. Cut almost to the center, but not quite. The cuts should be fairly evenly spaced, but you do not have to be perfectly precise here.

Each circle should end up looking something like this.

Now take your scissors and round off the corners of each little section. These will be your rose petals.

Now you are ready to glue and roll your roses.

After putting a dab of hot glue close to the center of the what appears to be your smallest petal, just roll the petal together.

Now put glue on the second petal. A little U-shape works well.

And wrap it around the first petal.

Then repeat by wrapping the third petal around the second one.

Now take your second piece of felt and one-by-one wrap each petal around your little rosette.

one ...

two ...

three ...

And there you have it, a perfect little rose. You could add a third piece of felt if you wanted bigger, fuller roses. But these little rosettes are just right for a pin. This is my collection of rosettes in shades of blue. You might have heard that I love blue.

The next step is to find a pleasing arrangement and glue the rosettes to a scrap piece of felt. Be sure to put a dab of glue between each little rosette too, just to hold it all together.

Then flip it over, trim around the edges and glue on a pin.

And here is my finished pin. Once you get rolling, this is a really quick and easy project. You could make a whole batch of pins while you watch your favorite TV show.

These will look so cute on a spring jacket.

Or on a little cardigan sweater.

I think my pin fits right in with Megan's collection! And what a cute idea for a Mother's Day present, attached to a gift in place of a  bow or perhaps an end-of-the-year teacher gift. The possibilities of what you might do with your rosettes is endless. As Megan says, "You just start rolling and they end up being cute!"

Thanks so much to Gail for inviting me over today! And if you have a chance, come on over to Elizabeth & Co. and say hello!

Sharon, thanks so much for giving my blog a sweet crafty project for Mother’s Day!  I love Sharon’s blog and have featured some of her projects.   I’ll be back in a couple of days with some fabulous pictures from the wedding.

gail