Delight your mum with this spring-like fabric corsage and matching greeting card in bright green, yellow and purple with pretty pearl button accents. Inspired by Victorian flower posies wrapped in paper doilies, this set features daffodils, pansies and primroses, using ditzy print and spotty fabrics, vibrant green felt and vintage buttons for a retro feel.
Stitch a corsage
Download and print the templates. Cut the daffodil petals from yellow spotted fabric, then turn the templates over and cut them again to form the backs. Place each petal piece right sides together and stitch around, leaving a small gap for turning, just in from the edge from point A to B. Clip the seams, turn right side out, press with a warm iron, then stitch closed just inside the edge.
Arrange the petals as pictured and sew a few stitches where each edge overlaps to secure. Cut yellow felt 1cm x 10cm on a slight curve and trim one long edge with a pair of pinking shears. Gently curl round to make a circle, leaving enough diameter for a button in the middle. Stitch the straight cut edge to the middle of the daffodil, then roll the pinking sheared edge over as shown and secure with looser stitches so as not to flatten. Sew a yellow button to the centre and set asi