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Tattered Layers Badge Pull for St. Luke’s School of Nursing

Posted in Badge Pulls, Bows, Fabric Flowers by

Date Created: 7/16/2016
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Time to Complete: 20 minutes?
Pricing: $5+

Materials Needed:

  • White material
  • Navy material
  • 1″ bottle cap image of St. Luke’s
  • 1″ epoxy dot
  • 1″ flattened bottlecap
  • E6000 glue
  • Hot glue gun
  • Badge pull

Measurements: (and what the pieces are for)

  • (4) 2 1/8″ navy flower circles, tattered
  • (4) 2 3/4″ white flower circles, tattered

Instructions:

  • Cut material into flower petal shapes using a template or free cut rounded edges, approx 5 petal bumps on each.
  • Roll material between palms to tatter and great edges.
  • Open petals and fold in half, then quarter.
  • Place glue on inside of quartered petal, but not too close to what will be the middle.
  • Repeat for each petal. 
  • Snip corner of each petal.
  • Overlap and glue petals together, slightly overlapping previous one. 
  • Glue blue layer of petals on top of white layer of petals. 
  • Using a 1″ hole cutter, cut out the photo. 
  • Place epoxy dot on top of photo.
  • Use E6000 glue to adhere the photo to the bottlecap. (It will stay tacky until well after you finish the bow in case you need to adjust centering of the photo on the bottlecap. )
  • Glue 1″ felt circle on back of flower. 
  • Glue 1″ felt circle to back of bottle cap.
  • Glue bottle cap to bow.
  • Glue bow to badge pull.

Woven Heart for Valentine’s Day

Posted in Bows, Holidays, Ribbon, Ribbon Sculptures, Uncategorized, Valentine's Day, Winter by

This woven heart can is very versatile, as it can be made with ribbon as shown here, or even as a craft for kids with construction paper.  Once complete, it can be placed on a hair clip, or a pin or even a badge reel holder. Here we use 3/8″ wide saddle stitch grosgrain in white with red stitch and red with black stitch.

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White with red stitch:
4″ and 4.5″

Red with black stitch:
4″ and 4.5″

For saddle stitch ribbon, I find it easier to stack the layers first before heat sealing the ends.  Take the 4″ piece and place it on top of the 4.5″ piece of the same color and adhere together on one end with a dot of glue. Repeat with other color.  Then heat seal all ends.

Place glued end on one of the sets on top of the other set on the glued end at a 90 degree angle to each other.  Then begin weaving and gluing each step of the way.

I will need to include more detailed pictures later on for these steps.