Rosette Throw Pillow...{And a Glue Gun}

I know so many people have their hearts and eyes set on the Pottery Barn etc, but I must be completely honest with you, I could spend my hours and days in Target. I found this yellow rosette throw pillow {below} on a fellow bloggers post. She recently purchased it. And OH how I fell in love with it.

Especially because I want to do my bedroom in beautiful calming whites, and ivory colors with an accent color of mustard yellow (or puke yellow is what I like to call it...but it's still a favorite color of mine).

Well...my bedroom isn't headed in that direction any time soon, so I wanted to take a stab at the creation of a fabulous pillow.

1: Because everyone can use a new throw pillow!

2:To see if I will be able to recreate this pillow at a later date with the yellow and ivory!

So I tested it out...and found out that it was kinda fun!

I ripped strips of cotton fabric...

About 1"- 1.5" thick strips.

Then I popped a squat on the floor with a glue gun and a cut of wax paper (so that I dont get glue on the carpet...again).

I took a strip of fabric and started folding and glueing...

just fold and glue... starting from the inside.

I made it a couple inches wide.

This will be the flower center.

Then I drew a circle on the wax paper the size I want my rosette flowers.

Now we start from the outside and work in. There shouldn't be any rhythm or reason really.

I did about 2-3 rows for the outside of the flower.

RIGHT: Here's the outside of the flower (that will lay flat)

LEFT: The inside of the flower I turn over and make a ring of hot glue and then plop it in the middle.

Repeat 8 more times :)

and sew em on a pillow!

I think the only thing I'd change is to make them a touch larger so that there's not much space between each of them.

And I think thread might suit others better, but I'm much much too lazy to sit with a needle and thread!