Pin Wheel Plant Pokes

Materials:

• 2 - 4 1/2 inch squares fabric
• 4 inch square of paper-backed fusible web
• 1/2 inch button
• Iron
• Pinking shears
• Scissors
• Glue gun
• 8 inch piece of 1/8 inch dowel
• Brown permanent marker

Instructions:

Center the paper-backed fusible web square on the wrong side of the first fabric square and follow the manufacturer's instructions to fuse in place. Allow to cool, then remove paper backing and fuse the first fabric square to the second fabric square with wrong sides together.

Use pinking shears to trim 1/4 inch from all edges.

Use a pencil to lightly mark a 1/2 inch circle in the center of prepared fabric square and to mark lines diagonally from corner to corner through center circle as in Fig. 1. Use pinking shears to cut on lines drawn from each corner to outside of center circle.

Fold one point (half) of each corner to center as shown by arrows in Fig. 2, gluing each in place at pinwheel center. Glue button to center over points.

Prepare dowel by using marker to stain it. Glue end of dowel to back of pinwheel