Lets Make Finger Roses

Hello friends, so glad to have you visiting again. Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

The other day, I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Hope Studios. Jennifer was featuring all the cute ways her sister-in-law had prettied up the guest bathroom for company.

Jenn took photos of the toilet paper rose that had been fashioned from the roll on the holder.

I still want to know why Jenn had a camera in the bathroom

I loved this idea and it got me thinking.....

I wondered if the same technique would work with fabric scraps. 

You know I had to try it...
I have to admit..this tutorial is so simple, I'm slightly embarrassed to even call it that.

So I took a 2inch wide strip of fabric. The length of the fabric strip will determine how large your rose will be.

Using your index and middle fingers, start wrapping the fabric around them both until you get to the end of your fabric. I tried to photograph myself wrapping my fabric around my two fingers, but it was not happening!

Take that last 2 inches and tuck it up through your finger opening from bottom to top.

This is the bottom of my fabric rose. You will poke the tail of fabric up through this opening.

See that bump of fabric in the middle of my fabric rose? That's the tail I pushed up through.

If you have wrapped the fabric snug enough, it should hold your rose together pretty well. 

These would be great if you want to create some temporary roses for a tablescape of a photo vignette.

To create a permanent rose, simply glue or sew in place.

Aren't they lovely?

These roses take literally seconds to create. I used scrap pieces of an old hankie to form the leaves or you could use more fabric scraps.

So come on...it's Springtime..go make some roses!

Until next time...be kind and stay creative.

Showing off at Hope Studios this week for Tutorial Tuesday