DIY Fabric Roses, Vintage Farmhouse Style

Craft DIY Fabric Roses with vintage farmhouse style for a fun home decor accent.

Whenever I displayed the fun feedsack fabric roses I bought at a vintage market {“Junk Bonanza”}, my readers would drool. “How do you make those adorable flowers?” “I love them!” I’d hear in the comments. I finally broke down and pulled one apart so I could see how they’re made. Here is the long-awaited tutorial with lots of how-to pictures for DIY Fabric Roses, Vintage Farmhouse Style.

These are the original flowers made with vintage feedsacks that got all the oohs and aahs;)

There are several different variations on the web. One of the reasons these are so cute are because the petals are all made from 2 sided fabric. Each flower also has 3 different fabrics which makes them extra fun. Here is how to make them.

DIY Fabric Roses, Vintage Farmhouse Style

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Materials Needed:

Fabric: 3 feet wide total, 5″ width for each flower

Scissors: Basic and Pointed

Clear ruler

Basic sewing machine

Hot melt glue gun and glue

Sticks

thread, pins, pencil or fabric marker

First, Choose and Prepare Your Fabric

For vintage farmhouse styled fabric roses, I chose a printed feedsack, a ticking pillow cover and an old cotton towel. You need about 3 feet length of fabric by 5″ for each flower. I’ll share how I made mine, but I like the version found HERE that started with fabric strips. I may try it next time. My version makes many flowers together (I ended up with 9 from this piece).

Iron your seams down and fold the fabric wrong sides together lengthwise. Pin to keep in place.

Create Scallop Strips for Flower Petals

With a piece of cardboard or cardstock, make a scalloped template with 2″ scallops. Draw lines every 2 1/2″. On the top edge of each section trace scallops using your template.

Sew to Create Flower Roses Strips

With a regular straight stitch, sew 1/8″ inside your scallop lines. Yes, this takes a while. Sew another regular stitch on the straight line. Do this with the whole piece of fabric.

When you’re all done, cut on the scalloped line. I also cut the extra scallops off below the straight line. Your strips should look like this. You can iron them if you’d like.

To Create Fullness, Baste and Gather

For my first flowers, I didn’t realize this was needed, but adding a basting stitch and pulling the gathers totally created a full flower.

Sew a basting stitch on the bottom of each strip. If you use 3 different fabrics seamed together like I did, start and stop your basting at each seam. It makes it easier to gather and saves you if the thread breaks. Pull the threads to create the gathers and fullness.

Assemble the Fabric Rose with Hot Glue

To begin, hot glue a scrap piece up and over a stick stem. This will be the flower center.

Then begin gluing your gathered fabric strip around. Place the hot glue on the bottom stitching. As you press the seam onto the previous layer, lean the petal part out at the top to create a more open flower.

When you’re done gluing, trim off all the basting strings.

Finish off Fabric Rose Base

To finish off the fabric rose, hot glue a round, notched piece of contrasting fabric. I used the denim from an old pair of jeans to go with the blue and white theme. Cut a 2 1/2″ round piece (the bottom of a Mrs. Meyer’s counter-top spray bottle worked well).

Fold the circle in 1/2 and notch around the edges. THIS sharp little scissors is one of my favorite sewing tools.

Cut a hole out of the middle and glue to the bottom of the fabric flower.

All done! You can pull, fold and shape the petals as you like. The more you play with them, the more you’ll get those nice frayed edges. Once you get the hang of it, I have a feeling you’re going to want a whole bouquet!

For more vintage feedsack inspiration:

“Feedsacks, Flour Sacks, or Grain Sacks, Is There a Difference?”

“Adding Vintage Feedsacks to New Furniture Seats”

“DIY Feedsack Stenciled Reindeer Pillow”

“Easy Stapled DIY Feedsack Mini Stool”

I hope you enjoyed this DIY Fabric Roses, Vintage Farmhouse Style tutorial. Let me know if you give them a try! I’d love to see how yours turn out!

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