Until recently, organza was considered a signluxury and cost a fortune. Today, this material has not lost its external sophistication, but at the same time it has become affordable and cheap. Organza is very popular with interior designers and is widely used in window decoration. Organza is also very popular with wedding fashion designers and is used as a material for sewing dresses and accessories for the bride. And organza can also be used to make wonderful artificial flowers, which can be used to decorate the interior, pinned to a wedding or evening dress, or used to make a hair clip, and in general... Any accessory that involves artificial flowers can be complemented with hand-made organza flowers. By the way, organza is not just a cheap and effective material for artificial flowers. It turns out that making flowers from organza with your own hands is very simple! This fabric holds its shape well and is easy to wash, and the flowers made from it are lush and “weightless”. Even novice needlewomen can master this skill. Let's try?
Flower with melted edges
One of the most common methodsprocessing the edges of pieces of organza, from which flowers are made - singeing. If you remember home economics (technology) lessons at school, then girls were taught to determine the degree of naturalness of fabrics by setting fire to threads pulled out of these fabrics. So, all synthetic fabrics do not burn, but melt, as a result of which their edges are firmly baked and do not allow the material to crumble. It is this ability of organza that is used in this technique of making artificial flowers. For this we will need:
- organza of the required color
- needle and thread
- candle or lighter
- scissors
- beads for decoration
First, cut out a paper or cardboard template.according to the shape of the petals of the future flower. If the petals are cut exactly according to the template, they will be the same and even, and the flower will be neat. Determine the shape of the petals yourself, and their number depends on how lush you are going to make the flower. The more petals, the more lush the decoration will be. On average, such an organza flower requires five or six petals. Now you need to cut the petals out of the fabric and singe each petal one by one over a candle flame. You need to singe them along the contour, as a result of which the edges of the petals will slightly “shrink”, bend inward and acquire a voluminous shape. Next, we collect the petals into a flower, stringing their lower base on a thread, pulling together and securing the middle with several stitches and a knot. Now we decorate the center of the flower with beads and straighten the petals. The organza flower, made with your own hands, is ready!
Flower - bow
The size of the bow will depend on the sizepieces of fabric that you use to make such a flower. You can decorate your hair with such a flower or use it as an additional accessory to a dress or bag. To make such a flower we will need:
- organza;
- organza ribbon
- nylon thread
- sewing needle
- Round cardboard templates with a diameter of 9 and 12 centimeters
- candle or lighter
- scissors
First, we make patterns from organza usingfor this templates. Cut out five circles with a diameter of nine centimeters and five parts with a diameter of twelve centimeters. Melt each part along the contour over a candle flame. Now take one blank, fold it in half (wrong side inward) and, stepping back three millimeters from the edge, baste the halves with stitches no longer than five millimeters. We lay the seam only along the arc, without touching the fold. After that, carefully pull the thread so that the fabric gathers along it, and the blank turns into a petal of the future flower. Fasten the thread well and cut it. In this way, we process all the other parts. Now take five petals of the same size, string them on a nylon thread and close them into a ring. Fasten the ring by passing the thread through the first petal again. We collect five petals of a different size in the same way. Place the smaller piece on top of the ring of large petals, align the centers of both pieces and stitch along the inner edge of the petals, joining the pieces and securing the bow. Decorate the center of the flower with a large bead or an artificial stone in a frame, or a cabochon, or a brooch, or something else. Cut the organza ribbon into small pieces (about twenty-five centimeters), singe the edges of the cuts and tie them in a knot between the tiers of the flower. When tying the ribbons, adjust the length of their ends at your discretion, but a flower with ribbons of different lengths will look more interesting. The flower is almost ready. If you are going to use it as a bow for your hair, sew a hair elastic on the back of the flower. If you want to make the resulting flower a removable brooch, sew a safety pin to it. By the way, for such a bow you can take organza of two colors, making the lower and upper tiers of the flower and ribbon multi-colored.
Lush flower
Another very simple way to make lush flowers from organza with your own hands. For such a flower we will need:
- flaps of organza
- scissors
- base (round piece of skin)
- rhinestones
- glue (glue gun)
- candle
First, we cut out organza from scrapsflower blanks of any shape and size: the bottom tier of the flower should be the largest, the top one – the smallest. And you will need from three to six such tiers in total. Such flowers can have five or four petals. The longer the petals are cut on the blanks, the more they will curl after melting, and the “curlier” the flower will be. After that, we melt each blank along the contour over a candle flame and assemble the flower. We glue all the blanks one by one onto the leather base for the flower, starting with the largest part and ending with the smallest blank. We decorate the middle of the flower with rhinestones and admire our creation. As you can see, it is very easy to make flowers from organza. Sometimes this requires a minimum of time and effort. Organza itself is so airy and elegant that you will not need any additional tricks to make an exquisite decoration. And the ability of this fabric to melt and "curl" under the influence of fire simplifies the manufacturing process to elementary actions: cut out the template, melt the edges, assemble the flower. Few materials can give such an effect, but organza can! So, take the fabric and scissors in your hands, light a candle and make airy, floating, transparent and such elegant flowers from organza. We recommend reading:
