The most common household items can be invoked to create unique products for decorating clothes and interior apartments. Very interesting ideas are offered for making flowers from lightning with their own hands. And in order to make this craft, you do not even need to buy a new zipper - it's quite useful to become unnecessary or even a broken zipper. To create a brooch or a flower-decoration of the rim, you will need a plastic zipper with more frequent and small links of lightning, and in order to make a design element for clothes made from rough knitwear or wool, it is better to choose a lock with metal links. The proposed master class on the manufacture of colors from lightning will introduce the sequence of manufacturing the product.
Flower from a lightning - a master class
You will need:
- long zipper;
- a flap of rather dense fabric under the color of lightning (for example, felt or crepe);
- bead on pearls;
- a small English pin;
- scissors;
- needle with thread;
- glue gun;
- lighter or candle.
How to make a flower from lightning?
- We disconnect the zipper into halves. One part is cut into segments with a length of about 6 cm.
- The ends of each of the parts are scorched by fire, so that the fabric of lightning does not dissolve. Each segment is the base for the petal of the flower. We sew it with small stitches and perform an easy assembly.
- Pulling the ends of the thread, we get a curved flower petal. In the same way we make the remaining petals. Sequentially sew the resulting petals so that one covers the other half.
- It turns out a long strip, consisting of petals. We turn the strip into a circle, we sew it neatly.
- For further work, we need the second half of the buckle, which is entirely sewed down.
- The stitched part of the zipper is twisted into a spiral, while stitching every centimeter. At the end of the production of the spiral we make the fastening seam.
- We take the prepared piece of cloth and we mark on it a circle, the diameter of which is 5,5 centimeters. We attach a pin to the circle of matter. To do this, fold the circle in half and, attaching a pin, perform small incisions on both sides of the pin.
- Now we thrust the sharp part of the pin into one incision, and the head into the other incision. So we made a brooch mount. To the pin was invisible, cut out a small strip of the same fabric and gently glue with an adhesive gun. If there is no glue gun in stock, it is possible to sew a cloth strip.
- The flower is glued to the base, but it is also possible to sew it. Top glued spiral.
- Sew a bead in the center of the bud.
It is possible to create a floral composition made of flowers of one or different colors, which will serve as a decorative element of clothing.
Learning how to make flowers from lightning, you can make this product completely different from each other, while using different ways of laying a threaded halves of a zipper. To make a large-sized lush flower, more elements are taken. You can decorate the middle of the product abundantly, taking not one, but several beads-pearls.
Flowers made of lightning fasteners, perfect for decorating children's or girls' gum, pins, handbags. As you can see, having spent quite a bit of time, you can make a completely exclusive element of decor, which can be used in various ways.
Of lightning, you can make and other accessories, such as bracelets .
