Flowers are considered one of the best ornaments. They decorate clothes and hairstyles, decorate gifts and interior. A beautiful flower made of cloth will make simple clothes bright, and the house cozy and beautiful. In this article we will tell you how you can make a flower from a tissue with your own hands.
Ways of making flowers are many - from simple to complex. Flowers from the fabric with their own hands are stylized, which they do quickly, using scissors and a needle and thread. And can be such that it is difficult to distinguish from the living.
What is needed to make flowers from fabric?
First of all, this is some skill, observation, as well as tools for colors from the fabric:
- wire cutters
- tweezers
- awl
- hook for curling petals
- bulbs
- chisels
- ironing
- paints and brushes.
Flowers are made in different ways depending on the texture of the fabric and destination.
Fabric for flowers can be any - thin synthetic, natural, silk, velvet or denim, even leather. In order for the flower to keep its shape better, the fabric must be starchy. Lightweight synthetic and natural fabrics are dipped in hot gelatinous solution, and cotton and velvet - into cooled potato starch. Lightly squeeze, dry and iron. The fabric should rustle like paper.
Solutions are made at the rate of 1 tbsp. a spoonful of gelatin or starch on a glass of water.
Try to make a flower out of cloth
Poppy or rose can be done like this:
- The fastest way is to take artificial silk, nylon or other synthetic material of red color and cut out of it 5 -7 circles of different diameters. Templates can be any round objects. Do not worry that the mugs turned out smooth, you can pinch the fabric. On the flame of a candle, lighters melt the edges. From this they are beautifully bent and the material does not crumble. Fold the petals one on top of the other on a piece of black felt or dense material, thread them in the middle. Make stamens out of black beads. If a pin or a special fastener for a brooch is attached to the felt, you will get a beautiful decoration - a brooch-flower made of cloth.
- The rose is collected in a different way. You can cut the mugs in half and collect them on a thread. First fold the smallest tube into the tube. To it add petals from smaller to greater. Each fix, correct and additionally bend in the desired direction. You can not cut the mugs, but fold them in half, then the petals turn out to be voluminous, and the rose resembles a tea.
- To make a poppy as much as possible to a real one, you will need 2 petals templates - small and large, black silk, manga, PVA glue, black marker, cotton wool, 0.2-0.3 mm wire for decor. Patterns cut out 3 small and 6 large petals. Corrugate them in the fabric, a marker below draw a few strips. Make a bundle of stamens from black threads - reel in the ½ coil of black thread, cut in half, put a piece of cotton in the middle and tightly tie. Beam top
dipped in glue and mango. In staggered order, the petals are glued to each other, stamens are glued in the received cup. The edge of the petal is slightly stretched. - A flower from a denim fabric is made as a poppy in the first way, but the edges are not fired, but the last one is ruffled. The middle is decorated with a button. You can collect a beautiful flower, if you fold the fabric four times, and cut out the different flowers in size. Each folded in four. Sew 4 large triangles to the round base, the remaining pyramids on them.
Flowers from the fabric of beauty are not inferior to the living. Look at the flowers in the garden and do yourself a favor and pleasure.