Remember our last working bee, this is what we made – some felt flowers on snap hair clips  and I’ll show you how it’s done.

First, you’ll need to cut out five flower shapes from your felt.  The flowers can be cut free hand, using a flower template or in my case, using the Cuttlebug flower die.  The flower can have 5, 6 or more petals depending on the look you’re after.

Fold each of the four flower shapes in half and stack them as shown in steps 2, 3 and 4.

Now get some embroidery floss, knot it and sew through two overlapping petals as in Step 5.1, then sew the adjacent petal, again make sure you are sewing through two overlapping petals (step 5.2) and continue in a square (step 5.3).  Do this a couple of times to secure.  Don’t cut the floss yet.  I should have used contrasting thread as I realised it’s quite difficult to see on the screen, but hopefully, you’ll get the general idea (step 5.4).

Then get your final flower petal and fold that in half and half again – so a quarter (step 6).  Now using the same floss, sew through the point of the final petal (step 7) and then down the center of the flower (step 8.1) and pull tight.  Do this a couple of times to secure.  Then knot it.  Tada!  It should look like a flower (step (8.2).

Here is the back of it, knots and all.

This step is probably unnecessary but I like to glue a piece of felt circle over the back to hide the stitching.

Then stitch it to a snap hair clip and you have a pretty hair clip for your little girl.

Or make them into brooches.  These flower brooches were cut free hand (with no template) by the ladies from the working bee, yet another different look.