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Fabric Flowers from Your Scrap Bin [Craft Recycled Tutorial]

9 by Becky Striepe on January 27, 2010

Conventional store-bought cut flowers can be an environmental nightmare. Those lovely bouquets require lots of water, fertilizer, and energy in the greenhouses and fields where they grow; travel hundreds, maybe thousands of miles in refrigerated trucks and planes to your local store. All that to wilt a few days after you take them home.

One crafty way around all of that is to make sweet bouquets of fabric forever flowers. They're a great way to use up those old fabric scraps and look just lovely up on the mantle for Valentine's Day -- or any day! We made a tutorial to help you make your own fabric flowers!

Check out the tutorial →

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Becky Striepe is a green blogger and independent crafter with a passion for vintage fabrics. She runs a crafty business, Glue and Glitter, where her mission is to make green crafting and vegan food accessible to everyone! You can find .

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9 responses to “Fabric Flowers from Your Scrap Bin [Craft Recycled Tutorial]”

  1. วิตามิน
    วิตามิน
    March 4, 2011 at 7:54 pm |

    Good job , i love DIY

  2. Malena Byard
    Malena Byard
    June 19, 2011 at 4:35 am |

    i am always fond of reading topics and issues about this one

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