Would you like to make your lovingly sewn items something truly personal and special?
We show you the most beautiful and colorful decorative ideas you can use to embellish your handmade creations. This is how hand-sewn unique pieces become true treasures!
Origami Butterflies
Charming, feather-light, yet stable and consistent, these are origami butterflies that you can sew from fabric scraps. Sweet, for example, made from denim scraps – here by Michelle Patterns:
And an example from Modage:
Button Flowers
Button flowers turn a simple tote bag into an eye-catcher. Because they are so nice and flat, you can also use them to decorate pillows. Here, the combination of felt and buttons does the trick:
Embroidery
Stylish in an "Anthro" style with insects or simply a small flower where you least expect it: Embroidery enhances your sewn unique pieces and makes them unmistakable. Bees or dragonflies, for example, are very trendy. Here is an example by Sarah Homphray:
Moths and night-flying butterflies are also great, like this appliqué from Ragtale:
Statement Buttons
Special buttons, whether tone-on-tone or in a bold contrasting color, really make an impact. It's brilliant if you use different techniques to sew the buttons on (as shown here at Buttons.com):
Thread buttons are also very popular, such as those made by Sabine Krump from the Waldviertel region:
Yo-Yos
They look mysterious and give quilts and bags depth and dimension. Yet, yo-yos are quick and easy to sew yourself. They look especially elegant when they are adapted tone-on-tone to the background, as in the example of Ruth Singer's work.
We also show you how to make them in this post!
Lilly Cottage creates a sweet vintage look using yo-yos:
Farbenmix also provides instructions for felt bag charms:
