The details of the wedding are coming together, and I was sewing something today for the ceremony. I stopped to take a break and to create a new item that I have been thinking about. Listening to Celine Dion sing The Color of My Love.
I love vintage roses, especially to decorate a gift, pin on a jacket or accessorize something or other.
Recently I painted pink cabbage roses and turned them into fabric. Spoonflower has a lovely cotton voile, which looks similar to nylon that they use for vintage flowers. Soft and transparent enough to give the effect I wanted, I call the design A Shabby Chic Rose Soft.
I started off by ordering a fat quarter of this design in my shop on Spoonflower. I had it printed in their soft cotton voile fabric.
I cut out the flowers, and using the flower shape as my template, I cut out a few in plain nylon to go in-between the flower petals. Stacking them to create a fat enough flower.
Sewing them together and alternating between the plain nylon flower petals and my cabbage rose petals. Using a pretty pink button, I sewed it on to create the center of the flower blossom.
I used a circle of felt on the back to secure the flower and to allow me to later add a pin for my purse or lapel, or ribbon to attach to a gift.
Sarah's Birthday is next week, so I wanted to use this one to go on top of her gift. So, I sewed a bit of ribbon to tie to the ribbon around the gift.
I used my Pink Cabbage Roses on French Script gift wrap design to wrap her gift. I then attached my pink rose flower to the top of the gift.
(I also have gift wrap available in the Pink Cabbage Roses Design).
Ta Da...some gift wrap, cut-out voile flower petals and a bit of stitches.
The fat quarter hosts enough petals for several flowers.
Here it is all ready to present. I found an aqua gift envelope to match perfectly.
Have a beautiful day filled with gifts and smiles. Now back to my sewing project for the ceremony.
Pink roses always make me smile. Vee from A Haven from Vee also makes me smile. She said that we always name storms, why don't we name the beautiful days. Don't you love that thought?
I thought I would join Pink Saturday this weekend. Bev from How Sweet The Sound always has such lovely pinks to share.
I found a lovely flower market in Harvard Square the other day. It reminded me that Spring is just around the corner...punctuated by snowy days of course.
Once upon a time, I used to go to the flower market in Happy Valley in Hong Kong every morning.When I saw the flower market in Harvard Square it made me yearn to sit with a cup of tea and bring to mind some old memories of my walks to Happy Valley's market.
I wish I had taken photos to share with you.
Speaking of sharing, if any image that I have shared in this post speaks to your heart, please take it home. Wishing you Bouquets of Pink Roses on a January day
