Project by Michelle Roberts at Creative Blonde

Follow this tutorial, to make your special Mother’s Day flower embroidery hoop, perfect for Mother’s Day, or simple change the wording for a special birthday occasion. Fabrics available from Craft Cotton Co, and all good crafting stores.
Please read through all the instructions before starting your project
Finished size; 6 ½” circle, plus hanging hoop
Materials
Scraps of ‘Brights’ fabric from Craft Cotton Co
(Fifteen 2 ½” squares for the flower petals plus three 2 ½” green squares for the leaves)
12” square of solid white fabric
6 ½” Embroidery Hoop
DMC embroidery floss – Variegated colour 4514
3 x ½” wooden buttons
Gutermann threads
20” of ¼” silver ribbon
Thread gloss
Haberdashery items
· Quilter’s ruler, rotary cutter/scissors
· Iron
· Cutting mat
· Basic sewing supplies
· Fabric pen
· Clover Kanzashi Flower maker
· Template for lettering - click here to download

Lets get sewing…
Take your 12” square of white fabric, and draw a 5” circle using a fabric pen in the centre. (Use a pen which can be removed later, as this is just for placement of flowers and writing).
Using the clover flower maker, take your 2 ½” square, folding it in half to make a triangle and place it inside the flower maker, trim away excess fabric, and sew from point 1 to point 8.

Unclip the flower maker, but do not cut the thread, add another piece of fabric into the flower maker and repeat the process, until you have 5 petals. Secure the flower by pulling the petals tight, and sewing a few stitches of the first and last petal together to hold in place.
Repeat this process to make 3 flowers.

To make the leaves, use the same process, but make a one petal pattern and a two petal pattern.
Begin securing the flowers in place on your white square of fabric, I also sewed a couple of stitches under each petal, to help secure them in place. Add a cute wooden button to the centre of each flower. Add the leaves in place, by tucking the raw edges under a flower petal and sew to secure.


Using the template, trace the letters onto the white fabric, following the curve. Use two strands of embroidery floss, I recommend using theads gloss from Threadjoy, not only do they smell divine and invoke feelings of wellbeing, but they stops your threads getting tangled.
Use a simple back stitch to complete your embroidered letters.

Place your work inside the embroidery hoop. Sew a large running stitch about ½” from the hoop all the way round, starting and finished at the bottom. Trim excess fabric (about ½” from running stitches). Pull the two threads and secure with a knot.
Add the hanging ribbon and bow* to complete your Mother’s day hoop.
*create a bow by cutting 6” from the length of ribbon, and tie into a bow, glue or sew in place.



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Stockist for Fabric
Stockist for Clover tools and Trimits Embroidery hoop and wooden buttons
Thread Joy Thread gloss
By Michelle Roberts for The Craft Cotton Company 2021
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