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Hi! I'm Tiffany Windsor. I love the colors of fall and it's so great to be able
to capture those colors on wreaths.
Fall leaves and bright colored t-shirts are perfect to decorate a grapevine wreath.
To create my flowers, I'm using my Aleene's Fabric Fusion Adhesive. Now this is
permanent, dry-cleanable and it's great when you want to create flowers
for wearables that you need to wash and wear or to do your basic crafting
like I'm doing on my wreath.
At Michael's you'll find a lot of different choices of colors for fall
with the t-shirts
and if you like really bright neon you're going to find that too.
I also like to use bandanas for my flowers
and this gives a great effect with those fall flowers on the wreath
with your fall leaves.
There are many different styles of fabric flowers that you can create
and I have one technique to share with you.
Depending on how you cut your slits in your fabric
depends on the finished design. So you can see the straight slits create this design
and when you cut at a diagonal you get more of a pin flower effect.
Let me show you how to create these.
The first thing that you want to do is to cut your t-shirt or your bandana or
your fabric into strips.
The width of the fabric depends on what size finished flower that you would like to create.
I like to glue on the back side of my t-shirts and you will find when you're
using your t-shirt fabric that you get those really nice
full flowers.
You can use your other cotton fabrics like your bandana
but it's the t-shirts that create those really full flowers.
So I'm squeezing a line of my Aleene's Fabric Fusion Glue right along the edge
and you can see that I did not cut this
piece exact
you don't have to be precise with this.
Come back and just draw
your glue line if you miss any spots
I'm working on a non-stick surface
so that I don't get glue on my work table and then I can easily just use a
wet wipe to wipe it up.
Just fold your fabric in half
and remember if you want a larger flower, then you would want to cut your strip larger.
This is about an inch and a half wide.
So you just fold that strip right in half.
If I have any glue on my work surface, I do
grab my wet wipe
wipe everything clean.
So I come back and just check to make sure that everything is glued together
and I am going to start cutting.
So you can decide how far apart you want these slits. You can put them closer together
it gives you a totally different effect
depending on how you want to cut
that fabric strip.
Keep cutting until you have cut slits
all the way down your strip of fabric.
I have finished cutting all of the slits into my fabric
I've applied my Aleene's Fabric Fusion Glue right along the edge,
now we're ready to start rolling.
So you just start at one end and keep the fabric on the table because that's going
to help you
to keep this roll very, very tight
and roll all the way to the end.
Be sure that you keep the end of the fabric even.
When you come to the end be sure that you have
glue all the way to the end of your fabric and press it firmly in place and
then I like to press everything back down in case it shifted
and then you can open up your flower petals.
Just leave this to dry completely overnight. Then you're ready to glue
these onto your wreath.
It is so easy to
create these fabric flowers by the dozen. When you want to attach them to your wreath
just use your Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue - this is available in a Tacky Pack
and glue all of your pieces onto your wreath and you are all set for fall.
The Aleene's Fabric Fusion Adhesive
and the Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue in the Tacky Pack are available at Michaels.
It's Terrifically Tacky and Creatively Cool!