Step by Step so you can make a Corsage at home

By popular demand, now you can make a corsage at home with our step by step guide below. All the hints and tips to make these cute accessories are below.

We love pictures of makes, please share photos of your finished corsages, we'd love to see how you get on.

Step one

Start with a strip of fabric 8cm wide by 35cm long and fold in half. 

Next do a straight stitch lengthways to secure the two edges. Make the seam about 0.5cm in from the edges.

Top tip: Thread your needle using a double length of thread for thickness and double knot the end.


Step two

 
Decide whether you want an open 'blowsy' style flower or a tighter effect. For an open flower, stitch along your stitched edge, leaving 1.5cm between each stitch, pull the thread tightly and your fabric will start to bunch like in the picture above. For a tighter flower, do narrower stitches.

Step three

Continue stitching and pulling the thread through the fabric until you have reached the end of the fabric and your flower looks like this.

Step four

  

At the back, stitch the two ends together and make a tight seam.

Step five

Next choose a piece of contrasting fabric and cut out to the shape and size to suit your design. We've chosen a circle.

Step six

We've added an extra embellishment to this corsage - a mini corsage on top, made of a gorgeous ticking ribbon. We made the ticking corsage using the same steps you have just followed for your corsage so far. Now you just need to sew the layers together.

Step seven

Voila! The finished result is the one on the left. We find a button really helps to secure the layers together with a neat professional finish. Enjoy.

Great mix of making and chatting

Just back from a lovely evening making fabric corsages at our Corsage Workshop. It's a great way to spend an evening, making something lovely to take home and having good chats....and there was a lot of chatting tonight! We all managed to make a small bundle of corsages to take home despite the gossiping...and the cookies kept the creativity flowing. We've posted some pics from tonight below.

We took oodles of photos tonight and will be posting a 'how to' guide to making your own fabric corsages at home on our website. We will let you know as soon as its uploaded. Have a great weekend. 
Best
A&S
 

 

Make a flourish this Friday...(25 May)

Fancy adding a handmade flourish to your summer dress or brightening a plain t-shirt? Join us this Friday for our Corsage Workshop! Here's a photo of one we made earlier ;-)

The workshop is on Friday 25 May, 6.30-8.30pm, at St Anthony of Padua Church Hall, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford. Its £15 and there'll be plenty of tea and cake.

You don't need to be a sewing expert, we'll have you churning out loads and taking home bundles for your outfits. They also make great gifts for friends.

For a bit more information and to book a place http://www.oxfordmakers.com/make-a-corsage.html

We look forward to seeing you there.

Best 

Annie and Sherrey

We are Making!

Wow, we are officially Making! What a exciting night. Just back from our first workshop. Tonight we were Life Drawing. We met lovely people, it was a great session and we got some great feedback and ideas for next time too.
Next Friday (25 May) its Making Fabric Corsages. We've got loads of lovely material, buttons and bits and bobs as well as different corsage styles for you to try. So please join us, make lots of beautiful corsages for yourself and your friends, drink tea and eat cake. 
Pop onto our website for more info on our workshops and to book yourself a place.
We look forward to meeting you.
Best
Annie and Sherrey

Just thinkin about...tommorow

Our first workshop. We can't wait. Its Life Drawing this week at St Anthony of Padua Church Hall tommorow (Friday 18 May) at 6.30pm. We have challenges ready for our first Oxford Makers. All our materials are packed and ready to go. We've chosen the music and got the ingredients for our cake break. We'll be baking the cake there during the workshop as you can't beat fresh, warm cake to help the creativity flow.

We look forward to meeting you.

Best

Annie and Sherrey

O what a night, fab FLASHMOB

Now you have that top Frankie Valli 70's tune stuck in your head you are in the same place we are. Our Meet & Make FLASHMOB at Turl Street Kitchen last night (Friday 11 May) will definitely be the first of many as it's a perfect making spot. We were in the library, under the bunting, with drinks and a lovely variety of makes. We chatted, we swapped ideas and it was great to see the very different crafts everyone was working on, like paper flowers, crochet, patchwork hexagons, knitting, weaving and finally decopatch. We've posted photos from last night here.

Have you seen our decopatch chair yet at Turl Street Kitchen? Here it is. Let us know if you spot it and send us a pic, we are taking a keen interest in its progress! Last night, everyone had a bash at decopatch. After a sprint finish, we gave the chair to our lovely Turl Street Kitchen hosts as a thank you. They're brilliant. We'll be back.

Now we are officially launched we can't wait for our first workshop this Friday (18 May). Its Life Drawing this week and Meet & Make Fabric Corsages next. For a bit more on our workshops pop here.

Best, Annie and Sherrey

Amazing creative Flashmob at the Turl Street Kitchen last night! Thanks so much to all that came along and craft'ed with us. 
We had everything from crochet corsages, chunky knitting, gorgeous men weaving to decopatching a chair! 

We had a ball and hope to see you again at a workshop soon!

Join our Craft Flashmob gathering at Turl Street Kitchen, Oxford

Calling all craft enthusiasts. We are meeting at Turl Street Kitchen, Oxford, OX1 3DH on Friday 11 May from 6.30pm til late with our latest making projects. Please join us, find out more about Oxford Makers and help us make a craft gift for our hosts, the lovely people at Turl Street Kitchen.

If you have a portable craft project on the go, please bring it, we'd love to see it and swap ideas. We're looking forward to meeting loads of craft enthusiasts and drinking wine.

If you're coming, it would be great to get an idea of numbers...email us at hello@oxfordmakers.com or just turn up, we'll see you there.

Best. Annie and Sherrey.

Cast your votes now for Oxford Makers workshops

We've loads of workshop ideas but would really love to know what you would like to do too. So we're asking you to vote here www.oxfordmakers.com/vote-for-workshops We are also keen to hear your ideas, so please get in touch. We'll let you know the results of our poll... We may try and squish some more workshops into our Summer schedule, but we are starting to plan our Winter Programme too. We're looking forward to seeing what you think. Take care. Annie and Sherrey.