Materials: a piece of fabric, 2 1/2 inches wide and about 45 inches long.
hot glue and hot glue gun
a small piece of felt.

Cut the fabric approximately 2 1/2 inches wide and as long as you wish. For flower, Icut the length from selvage edge to selvage edge on fabric (so, approx. 45 inches long).

Fold in half lengthwise; press

Sew a gathering stich down the length of the fabric close to the FOLDED edge. If you do not want the frayed effect, you can stitch along the open edge, however, you will get a very different look to your finished flower.

Pull your bobbin threads to gather the entire length of fabric (gather fairly tight.

Press your ruffled strip to make it easier to work with and define your ruffles.

Starting at one end, rolling your strip on top of itself. Add dabs of hot glue as you roll to hold the spiral in place. Go easy on the glue. You want enough glue to hold the flower, but you still want to be able to shape the flower when you’re done.

Your flower is all rolled up. Now cut a circle of felt to fit on the back.

Glue it down! Start by gluing down the middle. Then work your way around the felt, gluing that bottom ruffle of the flower down all the way around.

Use it on a headband, a barrette, as a brooch or lots of other possibilities. If you want to use it on a headband, wrap the headband with matching material first and hot glue in place, then attach the flower.