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    Blooms with Kanzashi Flower Makers

    Kanzashi is a traditional Japanese art form of folding and stitching fabric petals for use in hair adornments and other embellishments. Our Kanzashi Flower Makers are a handy plate that makes creating Kanzashi flowers quick and easy. They are available in a variety of shapes and sizes. You can use them to add your own personal touch to create unique accessories, decoration, scrap-booking and more.

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    Kanzashi Shopper’s Bag

    Create stylish embellishments with Clover’s Kanzashi Flower Makers. Although “Kanzashi” means “hair ornament” in Japanese, we’ve found that they can be used for so much more than that. Clover’s Kanzashi Flower Makers are reusable templates available in a variety of sizes and shapes. Daisy, Orchid, Round Petal, Pointed Petal, and Gathered Petal templates allow you create quick and easy designs. Designer Diane Gilleland shows us how to spruce up a shopping tote, create a flower brooch, and flower clip. Kanzashi Shopper’s Bag Instructions Kanzashi inspired projects Diane Gilleland is a designer, teacher,…

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    Friday Finds – Kanzashi

    Carol Porter created this fantastic display of the Kanzashi Flower Makers and finished flowers for her class at Portland Quilt Market. She used a cookie sheet with adhesive magnets on the back of each flower and template in her beautifully color coordinated guide to the available shapes and sizes of Kanzashi Flower Makers. The flowers shown from left to right are round petal, pointed petal, orchid petal, gathered petal, and daisy petal. The sizes from top to bottom are extra small, small, and large.  It’s prettier than a sheet of…

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    Make It Monday – Flower Wreath

    Spring is a wonderful time to decorate with a new wreath. We wrapped a styrofoam wreath with burlap, and then created a garden of fabric flower embellishements using the extra small Kanzashi Flower Makers. The centers of the flowers are a mix of buttons, seed beads, and rolled twine. You can see more particulars of the design with matching candle holder and frame on this link to the project inspiration sheet. We hope you’re inspired to create a new wreath for your spring decorating.

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    Friday Finds-Giveaways

    We have two fabulous giveaways of Clover products to share with you today: Quilters Newsletter is celebrating National Quilting Day with a giveaway of Clover Jumbo Wonder Clips. Enter by 11:59 P.M., Sunday, March 17th, Mountain Time for a chance to win. Check out their quilt binding tips while you’re there.     The National Craft Month Celebration continues at FaveCrafts with a Kanzashi Flower Template, Scissor, Wonder Clips, and Needles package giveaway.  Entries are only open today, so hurry over to enter the contest. A free downloadable e-book is available to…

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    Friday Finds – Kanzashi Flower Inspiration

    We’ve rounded up a few fun projects that feature Kanzashi Flower Makers for your weekend creative inspiration.  Here’s what we found that we couldn’t wait to share with you: Scrappy Clothesline Baskets by Susan  Mother’s Day Corsage by Ana Purse Embellishment by Joan Flower Headband by Vicki Kanzashi with Covered Button Center by Lynn Have a creative weekend!

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    Kanzashi Holiday Tree Centerpiece

    Holiday Tree Centerpiece by Alicia Carr Materials: Large Daisy Kanzashi Art No. 8489 Small Daisy Kanzashi Art No. 8488 58 Gold Bells 6” Diameter Styrofoam Base 8” High Styrofoam Cone 2 ½” Pom-Pom Maker Art No. 3126 1 reel Mini Quick Bias Tape Art No. 730 Gold 12” Square White Felt to cover Base 1/3 yd. Green Felt to cover Tree Cone & Flower Backs 5 ½ yds Total of assorted Christmas Fabrics Quilting Pins Art No. 2508 Instructions: Step 1: Make 24 large Daisies (11 petals each) following package…