WOW Wed 17th July 2013

First step Roughly cut out your circle and glue on to light weight cardboard

2nd step cut out a perfectly smooth circle what you cut here is what you end up with so make sure you cut smoothly around the lines no dips or bumps!!!!

3rd step back of circle with your tiny circles attached, now sew tiny running stitches around the outer edge of circle, this thread needs to be very long as you have to sew around with one thread the whole way; make sure the beginning and end threads are on the right side of the circle not the back and are at least 4inches long so it is easy to pull them

4th step place cardboard template in the centre .

5th step hold cardboard firmly in the centre and pull those 2 threads tightly away from the centre the fabric will roll over the cardboard like magic, pull till tight and tie off.

6th step Iron and the tack down the rolled over fabric making your tacking steps no more than a inch long.

7th Step cut rolled over fabric back to where the inner circle finishes.

8th Step A perfect circle.

9th Step

10th Step Now you need to insert a pair of scissors through the cardboard about the centre of the circle and cut to the inner circle, make lots of cuts from the centre to the seam line but don't cut through the seam line.

11th Step note all the cuts this makes it a lot easier to control when you are cutting away the cardboard. you will end up with cardboard just the width of the completed circle in the end

12th Step cut away only 1/2 the cardboard to start with, the other 1/2 will keep the fabric firm while you do the next couple of stages.

13th Step gently cut away the fabric leaving a seam allowed clip this seam allowance to almost the cardboard every 1 inch

14th Step now tack the seam allowance starting one clip from the cardboard this will make your first tacking easier than starting from the first one.

15th Step finished tacking now cut out another 1/4 and do that then the last 1/4.

16th Step front after first 1/2 tacked.

17th Step Because I do this a lot I cut my cardboard out after 1/2 way then clipped the seam

18th Step ready to be tacked.