Kanzashi flower

So I've been puttering about making flowers for the wedding and the latest is a kanzashi flower that I made from 1.5 inch ribbon squares and 2 inch squares cut from this really pretty pale blue and gold fabric. I hand serged the edges of the fabric with a blanket stitch because even with the quilt grid fusible interfacing (2 inch squares already drawn on the fusible makes things so MUCH easier!!!) it likes to unravel. At any rate I used a big pearl brad to finish off the center and I'm really pleased with how these are turning out.

The only down side to these flowers is that because I do such a tiny blanket stitch (I'll show more pictures later) each one takes me about 3.5 hours. Since I want to make about 2 dozen of these... yeah it's going to take a while. ^^; My mother made several carnation type flowers with the same fabric that just came out beautifully and I'll be making corsages with them. Yay! I keep switching between making fabric flowers and paper flowers. I have a flower obsession!

Annemarie taught me how to fold these paper flowers back around Christmas. Same color scheme as my fabric ones. I printed Alice in Wonderland characters on squares and folded them to put them into the flowers. I'm still not sure if I like the paper or fabric ones more! What do you think? (Well I hope somebody reads this!)