The Last one I Promise

I promise this will be the last one---I used a lace motif for the back petals and then 3 different sized calico ones on top of that.
I have glued the centre coil again but I used a finer fabric this time which was a big improvement.
I hate letting a technique get the better of me so I just persisted until it worked.
I cut out 2 green leaves from felt fabric and have just placed them under the flower for effect.





Here is the flower without the leaves--What do you think?
Which one looks the best?

That's it --no more I promise.

A few more Shabby Chic Roses

I have made a few more of these SC Roses and I am improving with each one.
I haven't been happy with the centre piece--I normally don't have any problems with glue but I haven't like the way the glued section became very hard when it had dried.
I didn't use much glue but it still was very stiff and hard when I had finished.
So I decided to do a different centre piece-which is on the flower on the right side.
I made a fabric covered button and attached that instead.....and I like this idea much better.





Other people have stitched the centre coil instead of glueing it so I will give that a try as well.

Shabby Chic Roses

Every body is making them--Shabby Chic roses.
Last week Ati had them on her blog because she saw them on Anni's blog who saw the Tutorial on Roben-Maries blog
then Patricia had some on her blog as well--it's like a virus-but they are so beautiful and I can see a lot of uses for them.
The one on the left was my first attempt but it was a bit big---so I made the second one.
I'm not 100% happy with them so I will keep trying.

They are supposed to have a couple of green leaves on them but I didn't have any to put on them.