3D Flowers Wall Hanging Tutorial

I am an EverSewn Maker 2021/2022, and this month’s project themed “Spring” inspired me to create a tutorial for you.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use your pieces of binding scraps to create flowers.

What will you need:

Gather all your leftover binding pieces and a hot glue gun with some hot glue sticks. If you find it necessary to cover the back part of the flowers you make (in case you’re making a headpin or something that the back will be visible), I suggest using foam sheets cut to the size of the back of your flowers, using a round shape to fit better, and let’s be creative!!!

The first thing to do is to trim each folded binding piece to 1 inch, which means that the strip is 2 inches wide.

There’s no exact length to use to make the flowers, the longer the strip the fuller the flower will be, but it will also depend on how you roll the fabric as you go. This is a pretty personalized project, as I won’t teach you a specific way of shaping your flower, since the goal is to create a bunch of different shapes and no rules!

To make one flower, after cutting your strip to 1 inch folded, sew it closed using a large stitch length, I used 4 on my Juki. It’s important that you leave the ends on both sides long, don’t cut them, we’ll pull these strings to gather the fabric as one method of making the flowers. Alternatively, you can also not pull and just roll as you go, but sewing this seam will help in the process when we apply the hot glue.

After gathering the fabric (or not), simply roll it as you go and glue every inch spacing at a time. You can loosen up the shape, or tighten it a little more, there’s no wrong way of doing it. In the end, as mentioned before, if necessary add the covering piece on the back.

Remember, no rules, play with shapes, add buttons, charms, whatever you like.

I added my flowers to a 16″x16″ fabric square, and using the raw applique method, I cut a piece of fabric shaped as a vase, and with a blanket stitch, I made a contour all around.

After the vase was sewn, I marked where I wanted my flowers to go, basted my fabric square on batting and backing fabric, and I used different leaf decorative stitches on my Juki HZL-F600 to draw vines as in a flower vase.

Lastly, I hot glued all my flowers on the marks I had done previously.

I finished with a contrasting color binding to highlight the framing of the mini quilt, and I almost forgot to say, I also added a hanging sleeve, I folded a piece of fabric 10″ x 2″ and sewed on the top on the back, with raw ends and then I sewed the binding as usual. To add an extra way of using my sleeve, I added one eyelet on each end, so I can also tie a string to hang over the door.

And that’s it!!! A fun way to get creative and use those scrap bindings!!!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Daisi Toegel