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| Keep your fabric and cut a long 2-3 inch strip of fabric. |
Fold the sides of the strip towards the center so that they meet in the middle. This is the
back. Gently crease the folds down with your fingernail.
Using a pencil, draw lines at 90° along the front of the strip.
Make small running stitches along the drawn line with a matching colored thread, at the
edge of the strip push the needle through to the back and then loop the thread over and
around to the front.
Stitch for a few inches then stop and gather the strip into petals, when pulled up the thread
runs through the center of the strip.
Gather the fabric into petals for several inches and then thread another needle. Tuck the tail
of the strip underneath the petals and stitch them together with the new threaded needle.
Keep making gathering stitches with the first needle and curl and tack the petals around and
underneath each other with the second needle.
6. FINISH
Continue to gather and tack the petals until the very end. Tuck the tail under and stitch it
down. The flower is now ready to be appliqued onto the background fabric. Stitch the
outside petals down to ensure the flower is firmly attached.
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