Tuesday, February 22, 2011

zipper rosette

Remember all those zippers?


I destroyed a few for the sake of crafting. It was even one of your suggestions, thanks!


This flower requires only 1/2 of a zipper.


1. Unzip your zipper.
2. Sew a line of baste stitching down your zipper.
3. Pull the ends of the baste stitching to ruffle the zipper up. It might look something like this:
4. Use your glue gun to apply glue to one end of the zipper. 
5. Start rolling! You may have to adjust your ruffly zipper by pulling the stitching back and forth. Put more glue in every time you roll it.
6. Sew a piece of elastic to make a headband and then glue the flower on.
7. Glue a piece of felt to the back so it looks nice and clean.
8. Ta-dah.

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23 comments:

  2. I love zipper Flowers. This looks Great!!

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  3. Gah!! So so cute! I love zipper rosettes!!

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  4. Way cute! I love it. The zipper teeth give it such great dimension. I am looking forward to more zipper fun.

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  7. That's cute. I haven't made a rosette, but I made a zipper rose. If you want to see it, go to http://snips-and-spice.blogspot.com/2011/01/zipper-rose.html

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  9. Love it! It's very cute! Might just have to try this!

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  10. You inspire me to learn how to sew so I can convince myself to buy a sewing machine and do adorable little projects like yourself! Love this little rosette!

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  12. V. cute..good idea attaching it to the headband!

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  13. I've been dying to make these, Thanks for sharing!!!

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  15. I love it! Out of curiosity. What length of zipper did you use for your rosette?

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  16. Jaclyn - It was a long zipper, about 20" I think. But I only used half, so 1 zipper would work for two!

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  18. Love this idea! I've seen them at the store and thought - hey! I could do that. But I never did. Now I'll know how. Thanks. Come link up at I Made It! Monday at Ninth Street Notions sometime.

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  19. Ah what a great idea for those zippers! I love it :D when I learn how to sew, I will definitely try this one out. Thank you!

    I love your blog btw, you're super  creative and inspiring :D

    Have a great day! 
    Katrine :)

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  20. Love this! I'll definitely be making one of these!

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  21. I love the zipper rosettes! So fun!

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  22. that is a cute zipper!
    love it <3

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  23. What a cute zipper flower - I think I'll have to make a headband with one:)

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