Flower pin

So here is one of the gifts I mentioned earlier. I made this flower pin out of fleece, leaving an opening to stuff the batting when I was done. I stitched two layers of flowers on the front and a genuine swarovski crystal in the center of the flowers. The two small center layered flowers were part of a very inexpensive craft kit that had different shapes in this shiny material as well as pipe cleaners, ribbon, sequins and glitter. Each of the flowers probably cost pennies. I stitched the pin back on with embroidery floss and then stitched the open petal up with the same thread from the sewing machine that I had used for the main fleece flower section. I learned a lot from creating this little guy. When I turned my flower right side out, my fleece puckered and I was disappointed especially since I had done so well going around the corners on the machine. I went to bed that night and while I lay there I remembered some panel dolls I had worked on in the past and recalled that they had lines on them for snipping the center of the turns, I tried it on the flower and it was perfect. Now I know what to do!