3 layer flowers into brooches

Hi all.

This is my first post on this blog.

I have to say that I have admired and drooled over all the work posted on here.  I am in awe of it, and feel slightly humbled to post my contribution.

I am relatively new to crochet (about 2 years).
I'm a Scot, living in the land of Oz, in the Southern Highlands of NSW.

I write my own blog at Teacups and Tiskets -  mainly about crochet and craft.  But a bit of other stuff mixed in.

I love crochet flowers, but havent made anything out of any yet.
So posting this has had a good effect for two reasons.

1. I have dragged my discarded flowers out of the box and have been turning them into brooches.

2. Not knowing what to do with all the brooches, I decided to take a local shop keeper up on her offer and have packaged them up to sell in her shop.  You don't know unless you try, now do you?

Anyway, I found a lovely flower tutorial by, I think, Annette Pevatty (you could find it by googling her name), and then I changed the pattern to suit my liking and turned them into brooches.

Some flowers 'pre' brooch making.

Some of my button collection.

Choosing some felt to use as a backing

Pretty maids all in a row.

I liked the muted colour choice of this one.

But my friend liked the bright.

And my daughter likes the grey/yellow combo

We'll see how they go, but I had lots of fun making them

And, of course, lots of ideas for MORE!

cheers

Fi