How to Make a Fabric Rose for Your Quilt!
A lot of quilters know the way to put together a quilt without any difficulty whatsoever. But if you asked them to make a rose quilt, you’ll find that many of those folks shy away pretty fast.
The reason why they do this is because they don’t know the simplest way to make the fabric roses.
Well, this ends now. Below you’ll find a guide to making wonderful fabric roses.
- Cut a 12 – 14 inch strip of ribbon, which ought really to be about one inch wide.
- Start at one end and fold a ninety degree corner on the ribbon
- Continue to fold these corners in a clockwise direction, being careful you keep a bit of a hole in the middle
- Once you’ve made four folds, continue to fold the fabric over the top of the prior layer, making you sure you hold the previous layers in place
- Keep doing this till there is about three inches left of ribbon
- Twist the end of the unfolded tail a couple of times
- Once twisted, loop and push the end of the tail though the hole in the middle of your folds
- Once though, keep twisting into a spiral like pattern, till it starts to make a rose pattern, this will grab and start rotating the folds as well
- Make sure to keep a hold on the layers which have not started being incorporated into the twisting
- Once all folds have been added into the spiral, secure it with a twist tie or some sticky tape to hold the end in place
- You can now make some final adjustments or the look and individual petals and folds of your rose
- Once you are satisfied with the ultimate result, use a hot glue gun on the end to make sure the whole thing stays together
- You are done!
As you can see, its amazingly simple to do and does not take much time whatsoever!
Now you are free to start making as many roses as you want for your quilt and it'll look better than any printed rose presumably could!
Interested in more rose quilt design ideas? Then head on over to Jane Green’s how to make a patchwork quilt site now!
