by Jessika Hepburn, O Happy Day Handmade
Flowers are blooming all over the city and summer still feels like it is in full swing. Here is a great, fast and beautiful project suitable for making with children that I originally shared on the Nurtured blog after creating them for a spring themed window display. Since then I have made thousands! These felt flowers are lovely embellishments for hair bands, brooches, shoes, room decor-anything really. Making them perfect for a last minute handmade gift. Slide one onto a bobby pin for a quick accessory to match your outfit or secure to a pin for a corsage that won’t wilt.
What You Will Need:
-1 Sheet of wool felt in any colour I use the Mercurius felt from Nurtured
-Embroidery floss/cotton thread
-Scissors
-Needle
-Piece of scrap paper for template
-Fabric pencil/marker
Step 1: Trace and cut out a petal shape from a scrap piece of paper in whatever size you want- I like to do at least 3 or 4 different sized flowers from small to large.
Step 2: Using your template trace 5 petals onto your felt for each flower and then cut them out carefully.
Step 3: Cut a foot long piece of floss/thread and tie both ends together with a knot.
Step 4: Pinch the petal between thumb and forefinger and thread onto the needle passing through both sides of the petal.
Step 5: Repeat until all five petals are strung on the thread.
Step 6: Tie both ends of the thread together tightly.
7. Arrange the petals gently until the flower looks like the ones above and you are finished. If you plan to make a garland like the one below from my Etsy shop be prepared to cut out over a hundred petals!
These are lovely felt flowers. I love a new project, so looks like I know what I’ll be creating next. Beautiful job! :o)
Those really are pretty. I was an exchange student in Tahiti when I was a teenager, you see this flower everywhere (frangipani). Lovely!
Thanks so much for this tutorial, I have often wanted to make those, they’d be a lovely compliment to a little outfit for my niece. x
Nice work and thanks!
thanks for the great tutorial!
They’re so pretty! They remind me of plumeria. Thanks so much, I’ll be linking.
thanks for sharing this is awesome…no doubt…hmmmm
These are the most adorable flowers I have ever seen in my entire life:)
Theyre so pretty.
10X 4 sharing.
that is so nice!!!! thanks a lot =)
Absolutely gorgeous…exactly what i was looking for..you a star 🙂
cute flower!!! thanks a lot!! 🙂
This is very lovely! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much. I made a pillow for a friend that had a baby and added these as en easy embellishment. It made me look much better than I really am at this sort of a thing. Thanks for the inspiration and the clear instruction! I used a button as the center on one of them and it is adorable!