Flowers, flowers, flowers... What woman doesn't?loves flowers? Even if for some reason we do not like to receive bouquets as a gift, we still do not remain indifferent to flowers. We like images of flowers in paintings and photographs, we subconsciously choose things with a floral pattern, we buy jewelry in the form of flowers. By the way, about jewelry. Of course, you know that you can make fabric flowers with your own hands. But would you like to try? There are an incredible number of techniques for making textile flowers. Naturally, it is impossible not only to master them all, but even to remember them. And the fabric flowers themselves are so different that one of us will definitely like them. But we will not complicate our task and get acquainted with all the techniques and methods of making fabric flowers. We will take on the queen of flowers, no more and no less! We will try to make fabric roses with our own hands. So, let's begin...
Calico Roses
Who said that chintz is a material toosimple for such exquisite flowers as roses? Nothing of the sort. Even calico roses are still roses. And we will make them in the form of a disheveled rosette in a way that does not require sewing. Tempting? Then we make a calico flower and prepare for it:
- printed cotton with fine pattern,
- flap of felt,
- iron,
- cardboard,
- scissors,
- hot glue,
- pins.
We lay out the fabric on the table and make a cut along itshared thread at a distance of five centimeters from the edge of the fabric. We make a second cut, stepping back from the first by another two and a half centimeters. Now with a sharp jerk we tear off first a strip along the first cut, and then another calico strip along the second cut. It is from this second strip of calico with two frayed edges that we will make roses. The width of the strip, as you already understood, is equal to two and a half centimeters, and its length is equal to the width of the calico cut (one hundred and twenty centimeters). We cut off the edge from the short edges of the calico strip and cut the strip into two pieces sixty centimeters long. From each of these strips we will get one rose. Now we make the first rose. We take one strip of fabric and fold it in half lengthwise along the entire length and iron the fold with a hot iron. Next, you need to make a cardboard strip thirty centimeters long and almost two (1.75) centimeters wide. Take a cardboard strip and apply a strip of calico to it, aligning the upper short edges of both strips. Holding both strips with your hands, pin the calico to the cardboard with a sewing pin and begin wrapping the fabric around the cardboard piece. Apply the turns tightly, at an angle of forty-five degrees. After that, secure the second end of the calico strip with a pin and iron the cardboard wrapped in calico in the steam mode. Wait until the fabric is completely dry, and carefully pull out the cardboard strip, preserving the shape of the ironed folds. Now iron the rose blank again, only this time without the cardboard. Take a regular pencil, apply it to the end of the strip, placing it across it, and wind the fabric blank onto the pencil, forming a flower. Do not wind it tightly. Now take out the pencil, take out the inner edge of the resulting rosette and turn it towards the center. We pin the outer edge to the bottom of the rose. Quickly iron our flower from above with a hot iron. Next, we need to do the following. We take a piece of felt, drip a spot of glue onto it, the size of which should be slightly smaller than the diameter of our calico rose. We glue the flower, take out the pin, press the rose with our palm. When the glue cools, iron the flower again in the steaming mode. When the flower cools, cut it out together with the felt along the contour of the glue spot. This is how we made a stylish decorative ornament in the form of a textile rose with our own hands. From such rosettes, you can collect a whole bouquet and make a brooch, you can use them to decorate dresses, blouses, bags and hats. Such roses will be an excellent addition to clothes and home textiles in the patchwork style, for kitchen accessories and soft toys sewn with your own hands.
Roses for a wedding bouquet
Today, wedding bouquets have become an object of notnot only floristry, but also handicrafts. And the thing is that hand-made is so fashionable that even for wedding bouquets many people prefer to use not live flowers, but artificial, but handmade ones. And, by the way, such flowers can easily be made with your own hands. And if they are made from the same fabric as the wedding dress, the bride will look especially stylish. To make roses for a wedding bouquet we will need:
- a piece of suitable for the quality and color of the fabric for roses;
- A fabric of the same color or some other for the bottom of the bouquet and leaves;
- a foam cone for the base of the bouquet;
- lace and braid for decorating a bouquet;
- non-woven fabric;
- pins;
- glue gun;
- sewing accessories.
First, we make roses with our own handsfor a bouquet, making each flower separately. To do this, cut three strips of fabric seven centimeters long and fifty centimeters wide. Take one blank and fold it lengthwise with the front side facing out. Along the double cut edge, make wide stitches by hand or on a sewing machine with a weak thread tension. Gather the blank with folds, pulling the thread, and secure it. Now begin to wrap the blank, forming a rose flower and simultaneously fixing the turns with a double stitch. In the same way, make eight more roses. Now you need to make the leaves. First, make a paper pattern of leaves of the desired size and shape. Make two or three large leaves and about the same number of slightly smaller leaves. Transfer the pattern to interlining, taking into account the allowances and iron it to the fabric that we have prepared for the leaves, and cut out. For each leaf, make two blanks of the same size. Now we fold the blanks in pairs with the front sides facing each other and stitch along the outline, leaving a few centimeters unsewn from the bottom edge of the leaf. Turn the leaf inside out, iron the seams and sew up the remaining opening by hand. Now we wrap the foam cone with fabric and secure it first with pins and then with small strong stitches. It remains to decorate the cone with roses. First, we roughly figure out how best to place the roses in the bouquet, and only then glue them. Now we attach the leaves around the top of the bouquet so that at the top of the cone they diverge to the sides like open palms, and at the bottom they fit tightly to the base of the bouquet. The final touch is decorating a bouquet made with your own hands. This is why we use braid and lace. We decorate the bouquet in accordance with our ideas about how exactly it should look. This is how simple, and most importantly, how you can make a rose flower with your own hands in different ways. Each flower is beautiful in its own way, and each idea deserves attention. You can also make roses from organza or chiffon, from satin or nylon ribbons. But these ideas are already well known, and what we have offered you is already one of the new handmade trends. In nature, a rose is considered the most difficult flower, but making it with your own hands from fabric turns out to be easier than many other flowers. So don’t be afraid to fantasize and share your ideas with others. Good luck! We recommend reading:
