Fabric Rosette Necklaces

The holidays have provided time off from work, thus allowing for plenty of time to craft and work on numerous projects on our to do lists. We gather inspiration from multiple sources for these crafts. Of course, there is the ever popular Pinterest, other blogs, YouTube and even our own ideas from long ago that we failed at and are reattempting.

One of our latest projects was the fabric rosette necklace. The blogger whose tutorial we followed for these assured it would be "easy" and "fool proof", which was enough to convince us to give it a go. We would like to think of ourselves as beginners in the area of crafts and thus are super excited when we read labels such as "easy", "fool proof", "little or no sewing necessary" and "no way you can go wrong". This particular blogger however, has had some years experience crafting so we should have guessed that "easy" to her would be the equivalent of "extremely difficult" for us. Ha-ha!

We struggled and were about to throw in the towel, when finally it came together... well, somewhat. 

Lets start with what was needed for this project first: scrap fabric, glue gun, glue sticks, scissors, felt, necklace chain or ribbon, rhinestones or pearls for the center (optional, but also serves to hide imperfections).

*Please note when picking out fabric to use for the rosettes we strongly suggest you stay away from stretch fabrics, thin fabrics or fabrics that fray easily. (you can thank us later)

Honestly, the hardest part is forming the fabric to look like rosettes and decent looking ones at that. Second hardest is making them in different sizes. For some reason all our rosettes kept turning out to be the same size no matter how long the scraps of fabric were. 

With the majority of our crafting, Michelle usually likes my finished product more and I usually like hers more. Grass is always greener, I guess.

The whole thing was a pain in the butt. We would by no means use the word "easy" to describe the process, but knowing now what would have made it a little easier and more or less how to go about it, we probably will try again.

Ta-da!

Best,

Michelle and Lesli