Do you remember those flowers I knitted? Well, I played around with the patterns a little longer, come up with a pattern for a slightly larger flower and then set about making something else from them. I love the bouquet idea but I wanted to try making corsages from them.
Sewing them together seemed easy enough but using the yarn made them too bulky. I then tried some very sticky, very messy glue (anything involving glue and I end up in a right mess!) and that was great… Until they ended up in pieces a few days later. For some reason the glue just wasn’t up to holding them together for very long.
On my desk is a small red and white polka-dot box. It has ribbons in it now but it used to have a load of thread in it. I thought that perhaps simply tacking the flowers together with some sewing thread might just work.
Like with the bouquet idea, I sewed down a few buttons to the centre of the smaller flower. I then attached a brooch pin to the back of the larger flower and then covered the base with a small square of felt. I tried to use felt and thread that matched as closely as possible with the knitted flower. Then, with the pin attached, I layered up the flowers and then tacked them together, first with the smaller and middle flowers, and then I tacked them to the larger flower, trying to keep the stitches away from the felt.
The thread worked a lot better than the yarn and because it’s strong, I was able to pull it tighter in places to give some shape to the corsage.
Here is a selection of the ones I have made so far…
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