How Does your Garden Bloom...

Four of my flower creations 

I have been seriously distracted by a pursuit to make pretty fabric flowers. 

This has been going on for decades and I usually give up...

but I feel I am getting closer to my goal.

I have recently purchased enough ribbons, trims and velvets to make zillions of flowers.

Okay, maybe only 20 flowers.

But, I have to plan for rejects; I have a steep learning curve :(

Out of the many, many, many, many, many, many books on fabric flowers I have purchased these two and they are okay. 

Somehow directions and diagrams just cannot convey how to truly recreate the essence of a flower.

Guess that's best left to Mother Nature.

I will try to be content ( but not satisfied ) with my own creations.