As you know, we are a big SEC college
football fans. With three schools in our family, we spend weekends either
driving to games or flipping channels. With homecoming approaching, I wanted to
make something special and unique for the football games. After seeing these
corsages at Southern Living, I decided to try to make them but wanted to add my
own twist.
You will need three school color ribbons.
I used grosgrain but you could use paper ribbon, satin or whatever ribbon you
prefer.
Cut four strips of each ribbon color
14 inches long.
Next fold the ribbon in half and fan the four ribbons of the same color
and add a stitch or two to secure them. You can also just put in a staple to
secure it.
Now stack the three ribbon colors on
top of each other.
Trim the bottom of the ribbon to allow
all the ribbon to show.
I stitched through the three layers of
ribbons to secure. It was a little slow because of the ribbon thickness.
Now Southern living added a live
flower corsage but I decided to make a felt flower.
Cut the felt into 12, 1 ¾ inch squares, cut 10, 1 ½ inch squares and 7, 1 inch
squares, a total of 7.
Trim the felt squares to resemble
petals, leave one large and medium felt square for later. You will also need a 2 inch round felt
circle.
Carefully fold over the petals and
stitch with three stitches onto the circle.
Keep adding petals until you have 11
of them on the circle.
For the next set of petals, stitch 9 of them with the same technique as you did in the previous step.
Add the last 7 of the smallest
petals…
Take the largest and medium square and
cut into a circle.
Next cut the circles.
Sew the largest circle onto the middle
of the flower.
Sew the medium circle last…
Attach the flower to the ribbon
corsage.
Now we are ready for game day. Use a
corsage pin to attach to your lapel. I hope to get better pictures today. We have had the cloudiest skies and I could not get the pictures done.
Hi first off your blog and talents are amazing. I am contacting you to see if you still offer sewing lessons. I would love to take some. Thanks for your time and all that you do and share.
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