Fat Quarter Flower

Many years ago, my husband gave me flowers for our wedding anniversary.  The flowers were created from batik fat quarters from Back Door Quilt Shoppe.  I love them!  I have been afraid to unwrap them because then I would no longer have flowers.  But I had to unfold some of the flowers so I could use the fabric while I was doing my 10 in 10 exchange group.

In an effort to help me remember how to recreate these beautiful flowers, I took pictures while I was unwrapping them so, if necessary, I will be able to create flowers like these.

Start with a fat quarter folded in thirds.

The flowers from my bouquet had the fat quarter folded so the raw edges shown were minimized.  Of course, there was one raw edge down the horizontal center and a raw edge on each side.

Fold accordion style.

Put a rubber band on the fat quarter about a third of the way down.

Tie a pretty ribbon around the rubber band so you do not see the rubber band.

The wire that holds the flower upright has a hook on the end.  The hook is hooked around the rubber band.

And then you have a fat quarter flower.

Back Door Quilt Shoppe had turned many flowers into a bouquet.  The cute vase was like a miniature wash tub.  There was the green floral foam inside the wash tub.  All of the flowers were stuck into the floral foam using the green wire (I suspect that was heavy gauge floral wire but I don't know the details on that).  I just loved my fat quarter flowers.  And I get to love them some more when I am cutting up the fat quarters and sewing the fabric into blocks!