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Fablossom Flower Maker

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The Fablossom kit comes with ready to use fabric pieces, clips and gemstones. You do not need glue, scissors or patience. We really loved making the flowers! It really is fabulous! The flowers are actually really pretty and the gemstones add a lovely touch. I would highly recommend this for a stocking stuffer – for anyone!

I could literally sit there for hours and just keep making the blossoms. They were just so easy! The Fablossom device holds the fabric in place whilst you arrange and fold the petals. It’s like having extra hands.

 

We got extra DIY creative with ours and made some school hair bows. We used the DIY refill pack and our own fabrics (old damaged uniforms). I decided for extra durability and to allow me to add the school buttons (from the old uniforms) I would hot glue the pieces into position. I went ahead an hot glued them whilst still in the Fablossom tool. I was able to make 10 of these in an hour. I then added a little hot glue to the back and attached the pins or clips.  I even layered several of them together for extra big rosettes.

 

 

 

Fablossom isn’t just for fabric, they now have a paper version too.  I love the elegant styles – they’re just captivating and the paper flowers would be PERFECT for a wedding gift or something like that.

What are you waiting for? Buy YOUR kit right now!

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How to Store Embroidery Needles

I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]