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This is a great “No-Sew” fabric flower tutorial for making this headband by fancyschmancybyjeni. You can use up all different types of fabric for making these flowers. You can also use up those vintage buttons you’ve been collecting for embellishing this gorgeous headband.
[Photo by: fancyschmancybyjeni]
About Karen LeeKaren lives a simple, frugal, green life and shares her eco tips and news on ecokaren. She leads Eco Etsy Team, an awesome group of enthusiastic green business owners on Etsy. She sells green goodies in her Etsy shop and writes for various green blogs. When she's not leading the team or blogging, she is a chauffeur to two greenagers, wife to an accidental recycler, master chef to hungry locavores, seamstress, knitter, and dumpster diver, not necessarily in that order.
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Hello! My name is Bonnie Getchell and overall, I'm a craft nerd! I love making crafts, re-doing furniture, and anything along those lines. I especially love creating items that are from recycled materials like toilet paper rolls, bottles, etc.
I'm the lucky momma of two little blonde daddy-clones--we spend our days doing elaborate art projects, trashing the house, eating cheese cubes and oranges, and waiting for my partner to get home from his day job so we can pester him.
Kelly covers visual arts in and around Washington, DC for DCist and is editor of Crafting a Green World. Kelly has also been published by Bust Magazine and you can find her byline at Indie Fixx and Etsy’s Storque and has taught in Etsy’s virtual lab on the topic of green crafting.
This is really wonderful, A lot of things can be done with this great idea=)
I have 3 bags of fabric scraps! great ideas Karen!
Oh, you will have so much fun making flowers Rachel. The possibilities are endless! Have fun!!
O, these are excellent ideas! My job as an eco seamstress (at http://www.gaia-noir.co.uk) means a LOT of fabric offcuts, and I’m always looking for ways to re-use them, since I challenge myself to throw away as few scraps as possible (only 1 basketful of unusable tiny/damaged pieces after a full year in business, yay!).
I make hairbows from scrap and I’ve tried patchwork squares, and shredding remnants for heavy bolster cushion stuffing, but making some little floral embellishments would be fabulous!
Wow. Just one basket of unused scrap in one year? That is awesome! Fabric flowers are definitely a creative way to use up scraps of all different sizes.
These are very cool. As you, i also keep so much scraps and could never throw out materials. Recently i used my old clothes and fabrics to upcycle into bags. Check them out… http://www.RecycleMyBag.com