How to Make Fabric Roses From Scrap Fabric

Oaishe
by Oaishe
4 Materials
20 Minutes
Easy


Today I’m going to show you how to make simple fabric roses. Making these DIY fabric roses is a great way to use up your scrap fabric while creating beautiful decorations that can be used in so many different ways.

Tools and materials:

  • Strip of fabric
  • Needle and thread
  • Scissors
  • Candle (optional)
DIY fabric roses

Cut

Cut a strip of fabric that is 4 inches wide and about 30 inches long. It can be almost any type of fabric.

Make fabric roses

Clean up edges

If you’re worried about fraying edges, you can use a candle or other small flame to very carefully burn off the stray threads.

How to make fabric roses

Fold

Fold the strip of fabric twice in half lengthwise.

Simple fabric roses

Roll and sew

Next, start rolling one end of the fabric strip. After three or four rolls, use a needle and thread to make a few stitches to secure the rolls.

Easy fabric roses

Twist and roll

Once the center of the flower is made, you’re going to start twisting the fabric backward once before making another roll. Keep doing this until you’ve made it around the center of the flower once.

fabric roses tutorial

Stitch

Insert the needle on the side of the flower, and pull it out on the opposite side to secure the fabric you have already folded and rolled. 

Fold, roll, and stitch

Continue folding and rolling the fabric, periodically putting in a few stitches around the sides of the flower to secure the fabric.  

Secure

When you reach the end of the fabric strip, stitch the edge to the bottom of the flower. Make a few more stitches around the base of the flower, knot the thread, and cut the excess thread. 

Ta-da! Your flower is finished.



This is such a simple way to add elegant details to your sewing projects. They can be added to clothes, purses, or hair accessories. 


Let me know what you think of this fabric rose tutorial, and to what items you will be adding your fabric roses. 

Suggested materials:
  • Strip of fabric
  • Needle and thread
  • Scissors
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  • Bernadette Bernadette on Dec 06, 2022

    Really lovely! Somehow, I feel they wouldn’t look that nice if I made them — they’d probably look more like a used Kleenex….

  • She1048382 She1048382 on Feb 25, 2024

    SPECTACULAR!!!

    What a beautiful use for scrap material!

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