Ultimate Romantic Bouquet For Valentine

This bouquet wedding crafts is an ultimate in romantic Valentine’s Day crafts, and sure to amaze any Valentine lover. And so, this fabric flower bouquet all made for free, using existing fabrics, bamboo garden stakes, ribbon and beads. Besides for wedding, this crafts is great for Valentine’s Day also.

And of course, flowers are a Valentine’s Day staple. But why get regular cut flowers, when you can create your own? You can learn how to make adorable fabric flowers with this wonderful tutorial.

Craft materials needed:

Multicolored gauzy fabric (starch if you want) and purple satin dress lining
Painted bamboo skewers and all were cut in half
Hot glue and gun
Matching thread for gathering
You really need another set of hands for this project!
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To make it a bit easier you can used the whole width of the fabric. The satin was great because it tears in a straight line but the colored was a pain. The single layer satin fabric is 12 cm wide and the multicolored fabric is 24 cm wide.

Iron all the pieces and starch if you want. Firmly press any doubled pieces in half and give them a nice clean crease

Used a sewing machine to stitch the longest straight stitch, you can do this by hand but it will take a while. Gather the fabric to about half the original length. Just remember to not gather evenly, leave some areas with no gathering and really bunch up others for a unique look. Leave each end ungathered for about 10 cm.

Pick an end and fold the corner down to create a point

Glue the point to the stake about 6 cm from the end

Have someone hold the stake and twirl it as you glue. Wrap the fabric around and around, gluing as you go. Keep it taut. If you want your flowers to have a slightly indented centre, spiral the fabric up slightly as you glue. You only want the end to be about a centimeter higher than the start of the fabric on the stake (does that make any sense??) Mine were glued evenly, each time the fabric wrapped around the stake it was directly on top of the last glue line so the ends were aligned.

When you get towards the end fold the fabric again to make a point and continue gluing. Not necessary but gives a neat tucked-in finish.

Just trimmed the fabric on the bottom but you could cover the bases if you like. I didn’t have anything suitable on hand and saved my sanity by not pursuing the matter. You may like to trim the stakes further, I did for the bouquet but for a vase long stems are nicer.