Want to learn how to make fabric flowers or looking for some crafty inspiration? Here are over two dozen patterns and tutorials with some even sharing free templates to download. There are dozens and dozens of tutorial freebies on the web with many pretty much the same so I tried to include only those that either had a unique design or if it was similar to others, had a nifty technique or two to share.
You can use these to embellish totes, jackets, hair clips, brooches and pins, headbands or even use them to decorate if you like (there are a few long-stemmed versions included below that can be used for year-round display). They can be made with a wide variety of fabrics such as cotton prints, t-shirt knits, felt, burlap, organza, denim, you name it! I’ll be adding to this list over time so you may want to bookmark this page for reference, enjoy!
Tattered Garden: A strip of fabric is first basted lengthwise and then pulled to ruffle, hand sewn to shape flower. Has a button center for embellishment.
Felicity: Pattern pieces and instructions available via free pdf pattern download.
Denim: Use a paper template to cut several different sizes of a simple flower shape, hold stack in place with a pretty button center.
Felt Dahlia: This felt dahlia pin has a secret pocket in the back that can hold a picture or message for your favorite mom.
Wire Edged: For a pretty display! Made with scraps of fabric, floral stem wire, tacky glue, floral tape and scotch tape.
Elegant & Silky: Made with a synthetic silky fabric that has the edges melted a bit using the flame from a tea light or candle.
Scrappy Strip Rose: Strips of fabric scraps are first sewn together to make one long strip then gathered and rolled into a flower shape.
Simple Felt Daisy: Made with white & yellow felt and floss. Simple hand sewing is involved.
Fold & Twist Roses: Strips of cute fabric are folded and pleated before shaped into rosettes.
Simple Flower: This is another easy design that has a button sewn in the center to hold all the layers together.
Gorgeous Chiffon: Made with chiffon, tulle and glass seed beads using a hand drawn paper template. This is a slideshow tutorial, click the controls in top right corner to change pages.
Rolled Rosettes: Made by rolling, folding and stitching a strip of fabric into a rosette shape.
Raggy Flower Tutorial: Strips of fabric are attached to a hessian backcloth and felt with a rag-rug hook or small pliers.
No-Sew Long Stemmed Pretties: Made with strips of fabric, wooden dowels and a glue gun. Features a felt base under the petals to finish off.
Rose Barrettes: Made with wool felt and embroidery thread, free pattern download available (pdf).
Big Bloom: Gorgeous flower with lots of petals and two leaves peeking out. Tutorial available via free pdf download.
Tight Lollipop Twist: A strip of fabric is rolled and stitched to form a tight rosette.
Made With T-Shirt Scraps: Material is cut into triangles (long edge cut on the bias) and cut again into 2″ wide bias strips then pieced & stitched together.
Ruffled: A strip of fabric is folded, pressed then stitched and gathered together. Center can be a button, rosette or whatever you like.
Tsumami Kanzashi: Made with squares of cotton or silk fabric, petals are folded, stuck on needles then glued with rice glue before arranging on a round felt piece.
Pantyhose Petals: You’ll need pantyhose or sheer tights in color of your choice, floral tape, jewelry wire, wire cutter, stamens and faux leaves to make these cuties.
What a treat to find all these patterns in one place! I was looking for some flower patterns to add to totes, and this site appeared. I’m so glad! thank you for sharing.
I bought this little plastic template that was supposed to make one petal at a time for a flower. It actually does, but it is so slow. I got to looking at it and thought why do I even need to plastic template? So I did the same technique without the template and there it was. Then I got to thinking how do others do this and make it easy.? So I came to this site and there were 40 different flowers that were so pretty. Now I know that there is a better way and easier also. Thanks for sharing all the pretty flowers and instructions…Pat from AZ
really very great ideas
Thank you so much for these flower patterns. I wanted to make an important correction on Anna’s flower. In the instructions, it says to fold the 1/2 circle in half with the wrong side of the fabric facing each other. BUT it is the RIGHT side of the fabric that should be facing each other. Then when you turn it right side out, you see the correct side. Thank you.
i say thank you to who ever made this web this helped me so much
awesome designs. please upload flowers ideas with frocks.
Ok my best friend weeding is coming up & I’m in charge of flowers. Its a summer wedding so she didnt want real flowers and take the chance of them going bad before everything was over with. i know how to make a few flowers but i need to know how to make something really easy but something that would also go really good with roses
just found your site. this page is awesome… just what i was looking for! thanks!
Beautiful! 🙂
Thanks so much!! I won’t be bored much longer!
I want to try them all! Thanks so much for sharing.
So glad I found this site. I am a beginner and daughter’s and nieces that will receive headbands with these beautiful flowers on them. Thanks for the ideas!!!!
Thanks a lot. Great ideas.
Great tutorials, and they’re free! I’m going to be making these flowers for the next 2 months!
Some of them look so real they are just wonderful.
thanks for all these! wonderful wonderful!
You are killing me. Just found you a week or so ago…I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING !
Just in time…My church group is going to make eight vases full of fabric flowers, you found many types I had not seen before! THANK YOU!! (~.~) E
how awesome a nice array of flowers to make all together , thanks so so much , i love them all they are beautiful
I have only found your site a few weeks ago. You are my very favorite site! My grandson told me about tipNut.com. What a joy! I am going to take a sewing creative class after Xmas. I am readying up Sewing books from Singer, Martha, Basic photo, how to, & now TipNut.n you have given me hope with your tutorials. I am acting like a spring chicken, & I am almost 80! I cannot find enough hours in the day & I can hardly wait to see your next issue. I love all the flowers!!! Thank you! Joyce Livengood in Az.
What a fabulous collection of resources–thanks so much for rounding them up!
I was going to pay for this great information and it was not as detailed.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you