I put this post up the day I got re-hacked, so a few of you may have seen it? Not sure, and I still had the text, so I’m re-doing it.
For this Martha fabric flower project, you… zzzzzzzz… *snort* *cough*… what? Oh, I’m so sorry. I fell asleep there for a second.
Fabric flowers are so boring.
Punched fabric flowers gathered into a bouquet. An everlasting bouquet, I might add. It will never go away, even though you might want it to.
That’s it! Lovely, huh? OK, granted, I did kind of phone it in on this one because I was so bored, making flower after flower with the pips and the wires and the floral tape. I can’t go on or I’ll fall asleep again. I suppose it would’ve looked nicer with three times as many blooms, but I just could not continue. It was draining my will to craft.
Here’s an up close shot for your viewing pleasure:
Yep, there are the pips!
Here’s the thing. Of course the Martha examples in her book look more professional than mine, but even those resemble something you’d find in Satis House, left over from Miss Havisham’s aborted wedding. It’s hard to do a fabric flower floral bouquet right, I think.
TIME INVESTED
About 3 minutes for each flower, with the punching, the hole in the center, adding the pip and, the worst of all, floral taping the wire.
About 45 minutes for a small bouquet of 10 flowers
DIFFICULTY
Easy to Moderate
The taping with the floral tape is a little fussy.
TOTAL COST
- floral tape, $1.59
- floral wire, $5.31
- fabric charm pack, $9.99
- pip collection, $2.29
- fabric stiffener, $5.00
- Martha Stewart flower punch, $9.99
Total cost = $34.17
WAS IT WORTH IT?
Good grief, no.
People, I barely have the heart to tell you that there are several more fabric flower projects. I will try to get through them with as much humor and high spirits as possible.
Probably the most famous was this one: 
I do quite like the look of these, but think they’d make a better gift embellishment or something — I’m going to say that MS gave these flower fabric crafts a little more prominence that they deserve …