Here are some up close photos of three of the flowers that were used for our chairmen gifts..
This was one of the easier of the flowers. I fused the fabrics onto felt and then started adding thread embroidery. The cool thing was that the more I sewed, the more the flower bent upward, making a wonderful 3-D shape. After the fact I decided that it needed a little bling so I added some light pink beads to the center. I did forget that the back could be seen and used a white thread on a pink/purple felt so the stitching looked horrible. I fixed this by taking a fabric marker and coloring the thread to make it less noticeable.
This flower was one of the last ones that I made (as time was running low) so it had to be SUPER easy. I simply fused two fabrics together for each layer, cut out a circle, divided it into “rays” and made simple cuts to separate out the petals. For the orange layer, I rounded the corners a bit. The center is simply a yo-yo with a bit of batting inserted. I started to neatly applique the center to the flower, but then decided to do it roughly to add even more texture.
