How to make 2 different rose flowers, using the same technique.

Tutorial Time!!

How to make 2 different rose flowers, using the same technique.

I’ll also show you how I wire my flowers so they have a stem.

First you need to decide on what type of fabric and color you’d like to use.

I’ll be using my flowers for a bouquet I’m making. So I decided on a satin, mint color fabric.

Here is the project I’m working on.

 

Begin by folding your fabric in half several times, until it’s about a foot wide. This will make it easier for you to cut a straighter line.

Keeping in mind that you will be folding your strip in half, you want to figure out how thick your rose will be. I’m making mine about 1 inch thick, so I’m cutting my fabric 2 inches thick.

 

Prepare a needle and thread. Try using the same color as your fabric, but in the end, it’s really not a big deal because you won’t see the thread. (  I’m a rebel, what can I say J )

Then fold you fabric length wise in half.

 

Begin your running stitch at the top corner or bottom corner. Doing it at the bottom corner will simply help tuck that opening in when you start rolling your flower. Or you can start at the top and glue that pocket down later.

Do a running stick across the top, gathering the fabric off the needle as you go.

Once you feel like you’ve done enough to make a nice circle, you can stop here. This is your first flower. You’d simply cut the fabric off, and sew the beginning of your fabric to the end of your fabric.

Or you can continue going.

Once you’ve done the length of fabric you desire, (obviously more fabric making a thicker, larger flower) you need to leave about 5 inches of extra thread. This will let you loosen some of your fabric when you roll it.

 

Go to the start of your fabric. Here is where you want to glue down the little pocket if you didn’t start at the bottom. Rotate your fabric into a circle, gluing it down once in a while to keep it from coming apart.

Once you get closer to the end, you’ll want to start pulling your fabric to loosen it.

When you come to the end, glue down the end of your thread so it doesn’t come undone, and snip the excess off. This is what the back will look like.

And the front. It will look different if you turned it tighter, or lose. I did tighter at the start, and less at the end.  

Next I’ll show you how to stem your flowers with a wire and felt. I use an 18 gauge wire. But 20 would be ok as well.

Cut a circle out of the felt.

Fold it in half and snip two slits into it.

 

 

 

Pass the wire through the two holes.

 

Bend the wire in half.

 

Add glue to the back, making sure you add some where the wire comes through so it glues well to the flower.

Twist the wire together. And voila! A fabric flower with a stem!

 

 

 

You can finish off the roses with a nice pearl or bead in the centre.

Hope you enjoyed.

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