I am thrilled to share the cutest little project from Calli at Make It Do blog, a felt poinsettia hair clip. I am hoping to make one of these today for my daughter to wear on Christmas Eve.
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Calli writes...
Yesterday, my girls and I were working on a few Christmas gifts for their friends. One thing led to another and I found myself making yet another flower pin. This time a Poinsettia. I loved this project and ended up making two for my girls, and plan on making more. They are perfect as a broach or as a hair clip.
Here’s what you will need:
- Small amount of red wool felt (I used scraps from another project.)
- Very small amount of green wool felt (also scraps)
- button
- pin or hair clip
- freezer paper
- template here is my simple template, but I also found this wonderful template from Kaboose. It has a few more petals than my simple flowers, but that might look even better, here’s the link: Kaboose Poinsettia Template
1. Start by tracing your pattern onto the paper side of a piece of freezer paper.
2. Cut out your template, and place it on your wool, waxy/shiny side down.
3. Using an iron set to wool, iron on the template. It will gently stick to your fabric.
4. Using good scissors, cut out around the template.
5. Peel the template away from the wool. It doesn’t leave a mark. Isn’t that cool?
6. Repeat with the smaller flower. I just set the button down to see how it would look.
7. Cut a 1 1/4 inch circle out of red or green felt. Cut two small slits in the circle, just wide enough to slip a hair clip through. This is for the back of the flower, on which to attach the clip or pin.
8. Using just the bottom flower, stitch the circle around the back of the flower. I used white thread to show the stitching better in the photo… Yah, that was it. It wasn’t because my machine was already threaded with white and I was lazy. That wasn’t the reason at all. I was just thinking of you.
9. Somehow I missed taking a picture of cutting out the green center of the flower. I cut my green with a fluted edge, which was a little tricky and requires good scissors. You can also cut it in a circle, but in that case, I would choose a button with a fluted edge. I was dying to try pinking scissors, but I don’t own any. So I just cut the fluted edge out carefully. Sometimes you just need to make it do. The finished green center was a 7/8 inch circle fluted.
10. Layer just the smaller top flower, with green center and button on top. And stitch together going through all three layers.
11. Glue the bottom and top flowers together using hot glue.
There’s a front and back view, with a hair clip attached. I like that this flower is flexible, I can easily pull out the hair clip and I can slip in a broach pin to wear on a sweater, hat or scarf.
Here it is pinned on a sweater…
Thanks to an idea a reader told me about on Craftzine, I also thought this would make a perfect topper for a gift. That way the wrapping is actually like giving another gift. (Using cheap yarn is much, much cheaper than ribbon!)
Thanks for taking the time to visit me today!
Okay, you are giving me too many ideas and I want to do them ALL.
So inspiring! I am totally going to make one.
How adorable is she dispalying her awesome little pin and hair clip…Thanks for the freezer paper idea..I would have never thought to use this…looks like it is breeze to cut this way…
happy holidays…
The flower hair clip is so very nice. A really good idea.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Annegret
This is a cute idea and I think I might even have all the supplies on hand for this! I love the idea of using it to decorate a gift too. Thanks for sharing!
Ackkk…how am I going to get all these cute things done? So sweet…Kim
So cute!! I am going to make some tonight for my granddaughters. Thank you for all of your ideas.
I am not crafty usually, but you give so many ideas that LOOK easy??? I am pondering doing this…..
I love the patterns. I have been using up felt pieces from mittens I made out of sweaters. i love these flowers and will be making them in the coming days. I lurk here alot. I love love love this post! Thank You!
Adorable! Where do you get the hairclips you used for these? I’ve been looking for exactly this type, but haven’t found anywhere. Thanks for the great tutorial.
Gorgeous clip and decoration!
Awesome! Thanks!
These are too cute. In case it helps Claudia, one place I find them is Sally Beauty Supply.
This is absolutely freakin’ adorable! Sorry to use the cuss word, but my goodness this is cute. Love it on a package, a gift with a gift, genius. Can’t wait to try. I am thinking daisies for my Daisy Girl Scout troop and whatever color for our Easter dress! (Not poinsettia obviously, but the idea can translate so easily.) Thank you for yet another great post!
Ooooo!!!! I just love the versatility of this flower!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Merry Christmas!
I have two boys whom will not like the clips but I never know you can use freezer paper like that… Thank you for a lovely idea and tip…
Very great idea! They are so cute. Just a tip on the freezer paper. You can trace the flower onto the freezer paper, but cut around the shape, don’t cut it out exactly. Then, iron to your felt. Then cut the shape out on the lines. It makes a crisp clean cut, and saves you time because you don’t have to cut the complete shape out twice. Hope this helps, I use freezer paper for so many projects. Thanks again for the cute idea. I love your blog! Merry Christmas
Also to help Claudia, I buy mine at Walmart. They come in a pack of 12 for $1.50. Can’t beat a price like that
I linked to this on my weekly roundup (post is under my name) – AND I included a picture of the one I made Christmas morning. Mass was cancelled because the priest couldn’t get here, and I wanted something to match my little one’s Christmas dress. All I had was an alligator clip kind of barrette (that goes poing!) so that’s what I used, and I made a little stem to cover it. I didn’t have green felt upstairs, of course, so I used red but it turned out fine. :>) Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Christina and Carissa, for the shopping tips!
My girls and I are planning a crafting afternoon (with wine hehe) and we totally want to make cute flower hairclips! Thanks soo much for the easy tutorial and the idea with that freezer paper, we’ll probably make something similar to this! Did you say you bought the actual clips at Walmart???