Sunflower Needlework

Two days ago, out of sudden, my friends, Elise and Soo Fong and I

felt like want to have some art activities,

then Elise suggested us to do Sunflower,

because she said Sunflower bring meaning in her life :)

Then we start preparing all the materials on the table,

luckily I bought those material two months ago,

buying those material to make Sunflower is not my first intention, but bookmark.

Never mind, since our mood on that day is to make a Sunflower, 

then we just move forward.

Prepared materials are:

1. Fabric (any color)

2. Scissor

3. Needle and thread (different colors)

4. Buttons (different colors)

5. Sponge

6. Any object that have round surface, e.g bottle lid

Instructions of making fabric Sunflower:

1. Used the round lid as the templates for petal and center (pistil) of flower, draw it on the fabric as shown below. (Depends on how large you wish to be your Sunflower)

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2. Prepared 2 pieces of center and 9 pieces of petals as shown below.

NOTE: The amount of petals is depends on the diameter of your flower's center, if the diameter of your flower's center is larger, then add more petals for it.

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3. Used the lid that is smaller than the flower's center and draw it on sponge as shown below.

Part A: Draw on the sponge.

Part B: Cut it out, and the size of the sponge must be smaller a bit than the flower's center.

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4. Part A: Fold the petal piece into half circle.

    Part B: Fold again to make in become quarter.

    Part C: Make sure corner A and corner B does not fall into same line and direction.

    Part D: Make the folded piece turn to the back, and stitch it by using running stitch. 

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5. Part A: Stitch all 9 pieces of petals as shown below.

    Part B: Push the pieces compactly, then it will look like flower's petals.

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6. Then stitches the petals between 2 pieces of flower's center by using the running stitch as well.

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7. Then fill in the sponge when the suture part remain quarter.

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8. Then continue by running stitch till it complete as shown below. Add in the hanging part if you want to.

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9. Stitch eyes for the Sunflower by using buttons and stitch a mouth for it as shown below. And complete it with some decoration as you like.

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You may do as many as you wish and the following is the one that we had completed.

Soo Fong, Elise and Shia Yok (me) production :p