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"I recently posted a photo of my friend Sarah&amp;amp;#8217;s stunning high-low hem wedding gown, and lots of you wanted more details about her equally beautiful fabric-and-button bouquet. Well, here&amp;amp;#8217;s how to create your own! Sarah got the instructions from the fantastic DIY blog Sew Ritzy Titzy and made a few simplifying adjustments. Check out how Sarah made her and her bridesmaids&amp;#x27; bouquets: 1. Choose a couple of fabrics. (One&amp;#x27;s fine, too!) 2. If you&amp;amp;#8217;re going with two different fabrics, cut out four circles (about 4 1/2 inches in diameter) from each one. Just one fabric? Do eight circles. 3. Cut down the center of each circle so they become semicircles. 4. Fold each semicircle in half so that two edges form a right angle. They&amp;amp;#8217;ll look like triangles with one arched edge. 5. About 1/4 inch away from one of the straight edges, sew the half semicircle (quarter circle?) shut. If you stand them up now, they&amp;amp;#8217;ll look like little cones. 6. I&amp;amp;#8217;m so not crafty so these words are a bit foreign to me, but the directions are to use upholstery thread to stitch a running stitch on the bottom curve of each quarter circle, which I&amp;amp;#8217;ll refer to as petals from now on. 7. Now start creating a sort-of necklace of petals. Add your next petal (use the other fabric this time) to the chain with that same running stitch. 8. Repeat, alternating your fabric, until you have about 9 petals. This is the bottom layer of the bouquet. 9. Pull the thread tightly so the petals all form a little circle (think of it as when all the wedding guests charge around the couple during a horah). Leave 8 inches of thread hanging. 10. Do the same thing with six more petals to create the top layer of the bouquet. Leave 8 inches of thread again. 11. Now use that extra thread to stitch the layers together. You can use the rest to sew a button to the center. 12. Sarah added a bunch of buttons and used floral wire looped through each one to create stems. 13. Then she wrapped floral tape around the stems and voila--a bouquet (or even a small centerpiece)! Would you carry a fabric bouquet in your wedding? Do you think you can handle these DIY instructions? Are you a fan of other non-floral bouquet options? Love the Buttons But Not the Fabric? Check out these striking all-button bouquets. More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Ian Drummond Photography"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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