T-shirt Rosette Tutorial
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Some time ago, I showed you this Super-Cute, Super-Thrifty, Easy DIY hat, which is one of my favorite solutions for a bad hair day. In that post, I promised to share instructions for creating a rosette like the one on my hat.
The rosette on my hat was actually created by a friend of mine, and it’s a bit different from the one I’ll show you below. For some reason, this version (in my picture tutorial below) seemed less intimidating to me when I set out to create my own.
I did wind up making a few rosettes like the gray one on my hat (see the yellow and dark gray rosettes pictured below). If you like that rosette better, check out this video tutorial:
By the way, these rosettes were originally created to accessorize a few T-shirt infinity scarves I made both for myself and as Christmas gifts last year.
And now, for the instructions. (Some of the pictures are a bit dark–sorry!)
T-shirt Rosette Tutorial
Materials
- T-shirt to cut up*
- Small piece of felt in a coordinating (or contrasting–your choice!) color
- Sharp scissors for cutting fabric
- Hot glue gun (and glue!)
- Drinking glass, or something round in your chosen size, for tracing circles
- Pencil/Pen/Marker
- Clip or pin, to glue onto the back of the rosette
Instructions
Use the bottom of a glass (or something round in a similar size) to trace eight circles on leftover pieces of a T-shirt.
Cut out the eight circles.
Cut one more circle out of felt,* and trim a bit off, so that it’s slightly smaller than the T-shirt circles. This will be your base, and you don’t want to see it from the front of the finished rosette.
*In the pictures below, you’ll see that I used a circle of T-shirt fabric as my base. You can do this, too, but I recommend using felt for a sturdier base.
To make the petals: take one circle and fold it in half, then in half again.
Use just a bit of hot glue to attach one petal to the felt base. It should fill up one quarter of your circle, with the point of the petal situated in the center of the base circle.
Continue attaching petals until you’ve got four petals as your bottom layer.
Then, begin your second layer of petals by placing a fifth petal on top and between two first-layer petals. Continue until you’ve got an entire second row of four petals.
Finally, you’ll be left with an empty spot in the middle. Fold one last petal and attach it in the center of the flower, using lots of hot glue and sort of bunching the petal together to create volume and fill in the space.
How to Use your Rosettes
These rosettes can be attached to all manner of clothing, accessories and home accents to jazz them up a bit:
- scarf
- hat
- bag
- headband
- shoes
- pillows
- lamps
- wreaths
- and more!
Note: You can make these rosettes from all sorts of fabric types–burlap, felt, home decorating fabric, etc. Check out these posts for more inspiration:
How to Attach a Rosette
You’ve got a number of options, depending on what you will attach your rosette to and how permanent you’d like it to be.
- Hot glue–obviously a more permanent attachment.
- Clips–alligator clip, brooch pin back, safety pin, etc. Each of these can be found quite easily at your local arts and crafts store. I used an alligator clip and just hot glued it to the back of my rosettes. Then I clipped the rosette to my scarf, hat, etc.
Happy Crafting!
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