berry collar pin

Collar pins are easy to make and will add a little cheerfulness to your spring wardrobe!

Simple and fun!

What you need:

-Three small covered buttons (I covered mine in a cotton red fabric)

-Stiff green fabric (I used an upholstery sample I had on hand because I liked the texture)

-Embroidery thread in contrasting color

-Sewing needle

-Tie tack pins

-Felt

-Scissors 

-Permanent Fabric Glue (Fabri-Tac)

 What to do:

-After you have covered your buttons, arrange them in a triangle and attach them together with a tiny amount of fabric glue.

-Then cut a couple of leaf shapes out of the green fabric.  One should be a little smaller than the other.

-Now take your embroidery thread and hand stitch a line down the middle of each leaf.

-Once both of the leaves are completed, glue them together.  Smaller leaf on top of larger, angled to the side, like a fan.

-Glue the leaves to the back of the berries. (make sure glue doesn't show through the opening in the middle of the berries)

-Cut a small piece of felt to cover the back.  It needs to be small enough so that it doesn't show from the front.

-Now glue it to the back.

-To finish, all you have to do is glue the tie tack pin to the center of the felt. 

And just like that you have an adorable spring accessory! 

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