Flowers from the threads themselves: turn-by-turn instructions, interesting ideas and feedback

Is there any woman in the world who is indifferent to flowers? But everyone knows that these fragile, charming creatures of nature live very short - both cut off and growing in the garden. They quickly fade and cease to bring masters joy.

What to do?

How can we extend the life of these little wonders of nature? The way, perhaps, is only one - to immortalize them, having made elegant hand-made articles - flowers from threads - with their own hands (for example, from yarn). Artificial plants weave, embroider, knit, craft from wire and a variety of improvised materials. There are flowers from threads on cardboard. With their own hands to make them is not difficult.

To create flowers from colorful threads is a creative and very fascinating activity. It takes a lot of patience and perseverance from the master. In addition, you need a fantasy, without which it is difficult to come up with anything original. Of course, a good eye and smart, flexible fingers are important.

Well, let's try to do this fascinating business - creating fantasy colors of threads with our own hands.

What we need

Any work requires preliminary preparation of all necessary materials and an auxiliary tool. In this case, we need thread or yarn. Choose it, we will depending on the model, determined by the type, color and size of future products. On this depends the color palette, which is most reasonable to take in the traditional scale - for recognizability.

Of course, you can make bright blue roses or black peonies. Perhaps it will be original. But in our case, it seems that our flowers from the threads themselves should have the maximum resemblance to the natural prototypes. From these considerations, we draw attention to the texture of the threads. If the yarn is very complex, intricate structure, working with it is not easy, and the result is not always predictable.

The threads take best of medium thickness, especially for needlewomen without experience. If you can not find a suitable yarn, you can take a more thin and fold two or three times. The volume of too thick threads, on the contrary, is reduced by delamination.

The easiest way to make flowers is acrylic. This yarn has all the necessary properties - it is fluffy, slightly stretches, it can easily be wound onto a wire. However, the thread of mixed composition is not prohibited.

Needles, hook and wire

Flowers from a wire and a string can not be made without the hook and needles. Let them be of different sizes. Thick knitting need to tie up large flowers, thin ones - smaller ones. We can not do without our wire in various cases. Its large segments will form a skeleton of twigs and large petals, a small diameter will be used to make weightless air leaves.

The wire must be cleaned before the start of work to eliminate the possible oily plaque. This can be done by wiping it with a cotton-wool soaked in alcohol or simply washing with soap under the tap. So our future work will look neat and clean.

Wire can differ in composition. For the stem of each flower, a strong steel will fit, which almost does not bend. She can imitate large branches. Thin copper wire, which is easy to bend, will become the basis of leaves, petals and buds.

What else is needed

From the tools you should take scissors, nippers and, of course, pliers. Without them, it is difficult to work with wire. It will be necessary to bite off its even pieces, press the protruding tips or weave them together and fix them. Sharp, strong scissors will be needed to cut the thread - sometimes with a whole bunch.

The needlewoman can not do without additional materials - glue, foam rubber, cotton wool, cardboard, acrylic paints, which will have to tint a piece of wire accidentally left unfilled during the winding of the thread. With their help, you, in addition, change the color of the yarn, if the desired shade in the store could not be found.

Having prepared everything you need (material, tools), let's think about the plan for creating our future product.

Preparatory work

How to make a flower of threads with your own hands? If you wish to reproduce one or another of its species, consider the pattern in the most careful way. Pay attention to the ratio of proportions. Perhaps, taking a ruler, you will have to measure the comparative size of petals and buds.

Then try to copy the floral elements, repeating the size of a real living plant. The basis for you will serve as a wire loop, woven and attached to a living flower to adjust the size and shape.

If your future product has an intricate contour, it is previously drawn on paper. All components are created separately, then applied to the sketch to adjust the dimensions - width and length. After that, the disjointed fragments are joined together.

Master of leaflets

Leaflets of a flower of any size and shape are made in one of two ways. The technology of the first of them involves the use of threads, spokes and wires. With the help of these techniques, not only leaves, but also flower petals are created.

So, let's get started. On the spokes are typed loops of the desired width of the chosen for the color and thickness of the yarn. Then the typed row of loops is carefully transferred to the wire, the segment of which should be bent in half and fix the ends of the threads. The wire is twisted together with the thread, the excess sticking ends are cut off. From such wire loops, giving them different shapes, you can get a lot of leaves and petals.

The second way

Another method is winding. Thanks to him we will be able to get the leaves that have a more complex shape. The work will be painstaking and requires a lot of patience. The basis of each petal is its own individual small skeleton. Bending it from the wire, wrapped in a thread, then the inner space is filled with yarn.

The edges of the leaf can be decorated, gently sewn with another thread (contrasting or slightly different in color from the main color). You can weave a thin cord of thread and sew the edges of the petal with it.

What do you need to know when mastering these leaves? The inter-wire space must be completely filled. Without this, our product will not look neat. When winding the thread, try not to allow skips. The ends of each thread should be carefully hidden under the base.

How to make flowers from threads with your own hands: master class No. 1

As an example of the manufacture of such crafts, we give a small master class on the creation of a specific flower - the lily of the tiger.

What should I stock? First of all, a small coil of wire (rather thin) and a certain number of threads. Colors take red, yellow and light green. Prepare a set of acrylic paints with a thin brush, a little cotton wool, a tube of PVA glue and a red nail polish. Do not be frightened by the work ahead. The process of creating this elegant flower is not so complicated as it seems at first.

Master tiger lily

Thin wire bend in half. Future petals should have an elongated shape. If you do not have a real flower, find the corresponding photo on the Internet. Using the winding method, circle the upper part of the petal with red threads and the lower part in yellow. The transition between these two colors should be smoothened - paint over with acrylic paint.

Part of the yellow petal is decorated with small brown dots. One petal is ready. Repeat the above for a few more times, making 5-6 of the same petals.

Then we proceed to the manufacture of stamens. Wet a small piece of cotton wool and twist it more tightly. The middle of the received lump wind a thin wire, having twisted the remained tips of the necessary length among themselves. If it is possible to keep a living flower at hand as a sample, you can gently measure the length of its stamens with a small tickle.

Dry the fleece cover with a couple of layers of glue, waiting for the complete drying of each of them. To make the stamens have taken a natural red color, they should either be painted with varnish (acrylic paint), or wrapped in a thin red thread. In total it will be necessary to make six or seven pieces.

Continuation of work

Similarly, the pestle is made - with the help of the same cotton wool, glue and threads, this time green. The shape and size of it will prompt the image of a real lily. Surround the pestle with stamens and fasten everything together. For the likelihood, slightly press down each of the stamens, then the resulting design is supplemented with pre-made flower petals. Some of them are attached to the inside, part - from the outside.

All remaining and sticking wire ends are wrapped in a light green thread, a thick piece of wire is attached to them, imitating the stem, on which the winding continues. To make the work look neat, the threads in some places should be fixed on the wire with glue.

If your goal is to achieve complete likelihood, then some more green leaflets will be required. They master themselves with one of the methods described above and are attached simultaneously with the winding of the stem. If your tiger lily is part of a large flower arrangement that assumes many different colors, you can do without green leaves.

Option is easier

But you master class easier - want to quickly make a cute bright yellow bouquet of fluffy flowers from yarn? For this you need very little - in addition to a wad of woolen threads of intense sunlight, take a long piece of thick wire or several metal skewers. Tools will need cutters and scissors for threads.

Choose the optimal length for each stem. It can be different - it will look more natural. Cut the wire or skewer with the help of nippers into segments of the selected length.

Around the index and middle finger, wind the thread, making about 30 turns. Leave the tip long enough. After removing the resulting hitch from the fingers, tighten the thread of the center of the formed small ball, dividing it into halves. At the same time, cut all the loops with scissors.

What do we get?

Their size may vary, so you can take small scissors and cut each petal separately. Floating the flower and giving it a spherical shape, cut the protruding tips of the threads. Then put the resulting fluffy bead on the wire rod.

It is possible to make such flowers from threads with the hands in the amount of 11-15 pieces and more, depending on the volume of the vase in which you want to put your bright elegant bouquet. The procedure for making a fluffy bright yellow "dandelion" is so simple that if you make one or two copies, you continue to work on the machine while looking at the TV.

Such a bright yellow bouquet not only decorates the windowsill in the apartment, but also will pleasantly refresh the interior in the office. It can also be handed to friends as a fun gift.

We make flowers from threads with our own hands: one more master class

And here's a remarkably easy way. Flowers even from the threads and glue will be mastered by the child. You will need balloons, colorful coils, scissors and the same tube of PVA.

All balls are inflated and carefully tied, so as not to descend during work. The next step is to gently wrap each of them with threads. To easily and freely unwind them from the coil or tangle, put the thread in a jar with a wide throat.

We begin to wind the threads on the previously glued balloons. As a result we get several large multi-colored cocoons. After waiting for the glue to dry completely, remove the ball from the cocoon. To do this, it should be carefully pierced with a needle and pulled through one of the cells.

Beauty, and only!

As a result, we have a weightless workpiece in the form of a ball of multi-colored thread. Now this ball should be cut into two hemispheres, and each of them, in turn, processed with scissors, rounding the edges in the form of flower petals. In this way, each of the balls will bring us two bright, wonderful, flowered flowers. Such flowers made of thread by their own hands for children can become an excellent decoration of the room for the holiday.

If you want your products to look even more elegant, you can decorate them with small rhinestones or sprinkle them with colored varnish.