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Day 6: Fantastic Handcrafted Flower Brooches

February 6th 10:09 :01 pm by kreatedbykelly
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I am so excited to share these with you! While I was sick today I knew I still needed to get a few things done — especially because of the February Thing A Day *smiles*.  My mom has been bugging me for well over a year to make some brooches & I kept procrastinating.  Well, for some reason I finally listened today.

These little buggers are a lot of fun to make because I can focus on them one at a time and make them all totally different.  They take a lot longer than I thought they would because they are completely handcrafted, but it is well worth it.

I am going to have to take better pictures before I list them for sale.  I have already designed the card that they will be sold on so now all I need to do is either buy the right paper to print them myself or go to the printer to have them done.  That or I will use vistaprint cause I can spend relatively little with them and get exactly what I want.

Anyways, I will be carrying a line of brooches from now on in my etsy shop.  Here’s my first batch:


I love that I can use buttons and trims and beads AND I get to play with my fabric stash. I know there aren’t very many there, but I did work for 8 hours today (if that tells you how long they take on average).  I hand stitch them and I also use liquid stitch (fabric glue) on them because I am paranoid about them staying put together.  A lot of them are more dimensional than the photo shows.  I will have to make sure that when I photograph them for sale that I figure out how to show how cool they are.

I’m really proud of them!!  Oh, I almost forgot this one:

That one is my favorite because of the special beads I used on it.  It is also made out of the prettiest hand dyed egyptian cotton.  I am a sucker for peach *smiles*

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  • Sweet! I had a year where I kept buying fabric flower brooches like these. I like the final one best too :)

    Comment by tooaquarius, February 7, 2008

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