Little Fabric Houses

I've continued to work of fabric flowers and have lots of scrap left. I love to use up fabric scraps in other projects so I wanted to see what I could make with them -- sewn and glued on cardboard, similar to "inchies" but NOT exact inchie size:

"Little Fabric Houses"

Fabric Flowers Are Blooming

Fabric flowers have been blooming the past couple of weeks. All are made from the lovely fabric I found at the thrift store a couple of weeks ago. I've found so many, many, many good tutorials online for making fabric flowers that I won't make a tutorial of my own. I plan to share some of my favorite tutorials in a future post but for now, here's a few of the rolled fabric flowers I've made so far:

Thrift Store Finds & Fabric Flowers

I just got back from the thrift store that's located not too far from me. I'm always looking for fabric (along with other items) to use in my art and found some fabric and colors I've wanted. My daughter and I are making rolled fabric flowers from scraps of satin, organza, silk, gauze, tulle, lace, muslin, and cotton. Some of the most beautiful fabric I found is the single pleated curtain panels and sheer curtain panels -- LARGE pieces of beautiful fabric for pennies! I found all the fabric and eight out-of-print vintage children's books for $5.00! These are just a few of the curtains and scraps I found:

I cut off all the seams and hems which I save to use for other projects, then I cut or tear strips of fabric to use for making rolled fabric flowers: 

This is a Salmon-Coral Rose colored satin pillow sham with three layers: one sheer, one crinkled and one smooth texture:

Some lovely cotton scraps in the neutral and autumn colors that I'll use closer to the end of summer and into autumn:

One of the books I found is Bounce and the Bunnies by Ruth Carroll with a copyright 1934. Not necessarily a "spring" book but the cute BUNNIES make me think SPRING. Bounce, the lonesome little puppy, goes out on his own to play in the meadow but is injured while playing. Mrs. Hoppit helps him by taking him to her rabbit hole house to mend where he stays for quite a while:

Spring is just around the corner! Bunnies  ---- and lambs, birds and flowers, oh, my!