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How to Make a Dorset button with flowers
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Sep 30, 2024
Learn how to make special Dorset buttons that are bunches of flowers. These are great for decorations, buttons, brooches and attaching to gift packages. If you are looking for the ordinary Dorset buttons then you can find a tutorial for those at https://youtu.be/X7LPd0tw8Ik If you want to embroider flowers then check out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJDvtpQDF0PfO6GplflD87JHxvOYZk8Al -------------------------------------------- #craftideas #craft #crafting #embroidery #embroiderytutorial #embroideryforbegginers #embroideryforbeginner #needlework #needlecraft
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In this video I'm going to show you exactly how to make these little dorset buttons that are bouquets of flowers
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The ordinary ones at the side here I have another video showing you how to make those which you'll find the link below
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So all you need is a hoop of some kind. So you can see I've used a curtain ring so that I can hang it
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but you can just use an ordinary plastic or wooden ring like I'm using here
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Now you want some green embroidery thread to go round the edge and to do the background of your bouquet
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the stems and the leaves and some colours for your flowers. So to start with you're going to thread up a needle with a great big long length of the green
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so that we can do what's called casting which is cover that loop
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So just lie your embroidery thread along the hoop and then take your needle through the loop and the hoop
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It's very confusing. So let's say that again. You're going to go through the hoop
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but make sure you go through your loop of embroidery thread. And that's going to form a blanket stitch
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Now I have a video all about blanket stitch. So again, that'll be linked below if you want to go and have a look
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So you'll see it's starting to cover the ring. And we're also working over that edge, that end that we left
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So the tail of embroidery thread is getting trapped in there nice and secure
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So you can see when you start and you have a great big long length of thread. It takes a little bit of pulling through but it gets easier
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So through the hoop, through the loop of embroidery thread and pull it tight
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And you're just going to keep going doing that all the way around that hoop
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And then it'd be nice and secure and nice and covered. And then you'll be ready to start on your bouquet
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So once you've got there, you're going to form the background. Now I'm just going to show you, you're sort of going to go across, but don't go directly
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across because you need to start forming that angle. So I just showing you with a few strands but for me that not enough strands Now you can do as many of these spokes or strands as you like
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but I think really six or eight is probably the minimum so that you can get some detail
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So you need to make sure when you set off, you've left space for that
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And then you just want to try and get them all about the same distance apart from each other
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And obviously at the bottom, they're all going through the same point
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So you get that shape of a bouquet that you're looking for
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And mess about until you're happy. Only once you're happy with it, proceed to try and secure it
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So bring your needle through the hoop and just go round all of those spokes and pull it tight
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And repeat. So you're coming round all of those spokes. Now how many times you wrap it down is up
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wrap it round is up to you because the more times you do it, the further up you'll become and the longer that stem will be at the bottom of your bouquet
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So the one that you can see on the screen that I've already done has quite a long bit there
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This one, I'm just going to do a few. And then you start to form the background of the bouquet
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So you're going to wrap your thread round the end, spoke. Oh, I've come unthreaded
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You've wrapped it round that end spoke and then you're going to need to bring your needle up
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not in the next one but in the next one along. So you've gone along two spokes and then you're
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coming back one. So along two and then back one. You can see I've got a short thread now
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so it starts to get a little bit awkward. So along two and back one
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And that's the basic format for a dorset button. Now there's lots I can talk about here about joining your thread on with a little
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knot at the back and just making sure everything stays secure. But basically you're just going to keep working all the way up
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And if you have any more questions about dorset buttons I recommend you watch the video linked below where I do it a little bit more slowly and show you a little bit more detail So you just going to keep doing that until you filled that whole area
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So you'll just get into a nice little routine where you go all one way
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loop around the end and come back all the other way. And keep doing it until the whole thing is nice and green and
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So you should now be getting to the top, which I'm going to do by magic
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And then we can think about forming your bouquet. bouquet. So I've made it to the top and to finish off and I do apologize the sun's come out
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I'm just going to run my needle down the back of a spoke just so that that thread is all the way to the bottom
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Now I've just checked on the front to make sure it's not going to show but to be honest I'm going to put the flowers on so it probably wouldn't anyway
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So there we go it's all ready for our bright coloured flowers. So you've picked whatever colour you like
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thread up your needle and then I recommend just putting a little knot on the end of the thread
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just to stop it pulling through and then push your needle through from the back to the front
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wherever you want to put your first flower it can be between the spokes or on the spokes
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it's up to you and we're going to use French knots so all you do is take your yarn
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and wrap it round your needle now I recommend doing three or four or four
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So the first time I'm just going to do three little loops and then push the needle back down through the bouquet in about the same place as it came up, very, very close
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And then pull the whole thread through and you'll form a little knot at the front, a little French knot
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Now you can see that's a tiny one. So I will do another one and I put four loops on So this time I going to come up through one of the spokes So it be a little bit further forward this flower
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And I'm going to go one, two, three, four. So it should be a slightly bigger knot
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Also it depends how tight you pull your embroidery thread or how loose you leave it
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And there's a little bit of a balancing act there. So I always say try and get it as tight as you can
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so that the eye of the needle still goes through easily. Much more and you can end up with big loops, too tight and you can have trouble
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and you just end up with the tiniest knot ever anyway. So you can see that one showing up more
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So I'll probably do most of mine with four loops to get the larger flowers
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but I will interspers with some smaller ones. So just wrap it round back through close to where it came out
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and you can start to create. So you could have as many different colours as you like
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and you can spread them as much or as little as you like
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You can have a few flowers, you can completely fill it like I've done. Your project, you can get creative
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But you can see there how it's coming together and hopefully we'll look like that one shortly
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So once you're happy you've got enough flowers and I'm happy with that one
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you're done if you want to, but I like to just finish it off with a little ribbon around the bouquet
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Now I'm actually using embroidery thread. You could use a little ribbon if you've got one and just tie a little tiny bow
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Now I'm not going to lie, it's a little bit fiddly, but I do think it's worth it
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So I'd say keep your embroidery thread quite long so that you can actually tie this bow
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Pull it until you're happy with it and then trim off the ends so it sits nicely inside your hoop
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And then you should have a beautiful bouquet. You can attach it to a parcel, you can hang them up or just gift it as it is, perhaps a brooch
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Whatever you use it for, enjoy making them
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