Gathered Flowers

I created a selection of fabric flowers, hand stitched only, for my winter slow stitch piece. Here is the first flower tutorial in the series.

I chose a selection of purple and tie dyed fabric circles. The circles I cut out using plastic from the inside of a coffee bottle as my template it is approx 6 cm across

I used 4 circles for this gathered flower. Lay them down in a row overlapping each other by approx 1 cm

Threaded 2 needles. Knotted the threads on the far side.

Sewed a row of running stitches slightly off center using one of the needles

Left the needle in the thread

Sewed a second row of running stitches using the second threaded needle off center to the other side leaving a small space between the 2 stitched rows.

Cut in between the 2 sewn rows

The 2 cut rows

Gather each row

To form a flower

Gathered fabric flower

Fabric flowers

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