Then I just sewed them on by hand and got to admire my beautiful handmade, one of a kind dress. Once both of the rose parts are ready all what is left to do is some iron-pressing, inserting the pleated (or twisted) centerpiece into the rose and finally secure stitching both the center and four corners with tiny hand stitches.Īfter that comes one of my favorite parts which was now placing all my roses to the hem of the Roller Skate dress and create a nice looking lay out. When using heavier fabric like this mixed linen it was just so much easier to create the pleats and the middle “diamond shape” with pins rather than twisting. In the book the center of this rose is made by twisting the creased intersection to the right but I prefer doing it with the help of pins. If the material frays a lot I recommend to overlock this piece, at least if the product comes to everyday use and needs a lot of washing like my dresses. When the tricky part is done you still need to make the center of the rose. But once I got it I noticed that I can make these roses very quickly. The trickiest part of this origami is to create the actual rose and forming “ears.” That’s the part I really needed the patience and practice. If the fabric doesn’t hold the creases so well the outline helps you to do them correctly. I also found it quite helpful when I drew the folded outlines of the octagon with a fabric marker. It’s very important to finger press the folds firmly with your thumbnail. These folds are made for the larger square and they are simple to make. As the first steps you create an octagon base for the rose. The origami rose forms from two different size squares that are folded in an innovative way. For this Roller Skate dress, for instance, I used mixed linen fabric in two colors and sizes. When you are more experienced, you can try different colors, sizes, textures and materials. I started with stretch cotton and it wasn’t the easiest material. Or at least start with cotton because it holds creases well. If you haven’t done origami before I would suggest to try with paper first because it’s simply easier to fold.
The book has eighteen step-by-step photos for the rose and they are quite easy to follow. I’m also going to give you some tips if you are a beginner in fabric folding and share some in progress pictures. Today you’ll get to see how I gave a really nice twist to the beautiful and classic Oliver + S Roller Skate Dress by using that same three-dimensional Folded Roses pattern from Wat’s book. I totally fell in love and decided to decorate my youngest daughter’s dress with them. But the essential step forward happened just this year when I finally had enough patience, peace and quiet (I have four kids) and understood how the folded roses were meant to be made. I was amazed by her beautiful quilting projects with the touch of fabric folding and occasionally tried even, making some of them here at home.
That’s how I found Rebecca Wat’s book Fantastic Fabric Folding. So one of my favorite things when going on holidays especially outside Finland was to visit local book stores and buy inspiring craft books. The world has changed a lot over the years and at that time buying books on the net wasn’t as easy as it is today. My first experience with fabric origami took place fifteen years ago when I was on holiday in Florida. It’s truly very addictive! On the other hand I’m sure we all have lots of small fabric scraps at home, and origami is just the perfect way to get rid of them and turn them into something beautiful. I will give you a word of warning though: once you learn the basics of the folding technique you just want to learn more. That however would be a whole other post, so let’s just concentrate on a single origami which you can use for instance to embellish your Oliver + S patterns, like I did. Fabric origami can be used separately on all kinds of sewing projects or you can just get inspired by the the shapes of origami and try to create a surface or structure that somehow imitates them. But you can fold fabric too, and that’s what makes this technique very interesting to all of us sewing people. As you all probably know ori (folding) gami (paper) is often associated with Japanese culture and it means the art of paper folding. I’m going to tell you a little about fabric origami, which is such an interesting technique. Hello everyone! I’m very excited to be here today sharing my first guest post ever. She’s also going to share a great resource for folding fabric flowers. She was kind enough to take the time to stop by to show some of the steps she did in order to create the flowers. She created a lovely Roller Skate Dress embellished with origami roses.
Let me introduce you to Krista who lives in Finland.
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