How to make silk flowers with your own hands?

Recently, a huge hype enjoys handmade ornaments. With the help of these girls complement their image and add coziness to their home. A piece of handmade that will never go out of fashion, there have always been flowers. With colors you can decorate the curtains in your apartment, hair or even collect from them a necklace, earrings or a ring.

There is a huge amount of techniques for manufacturing these elements of wildlife: beadwork, polymer clay, cold porcelain, knitting - this is only a small part of the ways of creating them.

In today's article, we'll talk about how to make silk flowers with our own hands.

Why silk?

• Flowers from silk seem more realistic and airy.
• Glitter and a pleasant to the touch texture of this fabric will be preserved for many years.
• Silk is an environmentally friendly material.
• Bijouterie from natural fabrics looks more stylish and expensive.
• Crafts made of this material perfectly keep the desired shape and quickly dry out.

You ask why buy natural silk, if there is a huge selection of synthetic fabrics with a much more pleasant price. Of course, you are right, if you make hair clips or elastic bands for a child that can easily spoil or lose, then it's better not to spend a lot of money on expensive fabric, but if you want to make an ornament for an adult person as a gift, then you will agree that it will be much more beneficial Look flowers from silk.

With your own hands to make such jewelry is not so difficult, especially if you get an understandable master class.

Materials and tools that you need

Before you start making silk flowers yourself, let's take a look at the list of accessories you need:

• Silk (if you are making a flower for the first time, then we advise you to practice first on an inexpensive material with a similar texture).
• Scissors (very sharp).
• The glue gun.
• Bunks (these are metal sticks with a ball on the end).
• Water.
• Gelatin.
• Special knives of different shapes (if they are not, you can use the blade).
• Ruler.
• Marker.
• Heavy paper for stencil.

We make the stencil

Flowers made of silk with their own hands for beginner needlewomen without a stencil make will be problematic enough, so we present you a description of its manufacture.

• The first thing you need to find or buy in a flower shop is a living flower, which you want to recreate and disassemble it into separate petals.
• Carefully review and remember all the bends and shape of each part of the flower.
• Spread the petals to fit into the stacks.
• Take a copy from each stack.
• Straightening and tightly pressing the petals to a dense sheet of paper, circle them.
• Cut the stencils with scissors.

Preparation of silk for work

In order to make flowers from silk with their own hands and give them greater strength and realism, it is necessary to gel the silk.

This is done as follows:

• Warm up 0.5 liters of water to a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius.
• Dissolve in the heated water 7 spoons of gelatin.
• We soak the silk in the resulting solution.
• Remove the fabric from the gelatin mixture and leave it to dry (do not squeeze it).

The material is ready for use!

Flowers from silk own hands. Master Class

How many flowers on the planet Earth, so many, probably, there are master classes for their manufacture. Of course, one article is not enough to tell about them all, so today we will make silk flowers with our own hands, which are very popular - roses.

rose flower

Rose is the queen of all colors. Most of the female half of the population prefers this particular plant. If you do not know the beloved flower of the person you want to make a gift to, choose your choice on it.

Materials and tools that you need to purchase:

• Processed silk is red, white, pink or yellow.
• More dense, but light green material for coloration with sepals.
• Scissors.
• Vata.
• Bulki.
• The glue gun.
• Adhesive for glue gun.
• Paper for stencils.
• Floral wire.

We make silk flowers by our own hands

• Cut out of paper a square, each side of which is 9 centimeters.
• Cut out the square whose size is 8.5 cm
• We make one more square, which should be smaller than the first by 1 and 1.5 cm.
• Twice fold each square and round off their edges, so that when you unfold it, you have flowers from 4 petals.
• We make 3-4 copies of each silk screen.
• We carve sepals with a flower head from a denser tissue.
• If you chose white or soft pink, if you want, you can tint the petals in a darker shade.
• Stretch the fingers of the edges of all the petals so that they become wavy.
• Twist each petal individually with your fingers and wait until they straighten.
• Press down on the center of each petal to get a rounded shape.
• Puncture the center of each of the four petals with a thick needle.
• You can process the sepals with the back side of the bulb, in the same way.
• Bend the wire in half and insert a small piece of cotton into the formed loop.
• We twist the ends of the wire together.
• We twist the cotton wool so that a droplet forms on the top of the wire like on an earwax.
• Lubricate the cotton ball with PVA glue.
• We string the first flower on the wire and twist its petals around the cotton wool
• The next flower is worn on the wire, we drip a bit of glue from the glue gun onto the bottom of the previous one and twist the petals around it.
• Repeat these steps until all the flowers end.
• We glue to the last petals of the flower-root.
• We leave the ready rose to dry.
• Crop the extra wire.

What can I do with silk flowers?

Now that you know how to make silk flowers with your own hands, let's define how practically you can use them:

• Having pasted a circle of felt to the back of the product, attach a pin to it and wear the flower as a brooch.
• Attach a silk rose to an elastic band or hair clip, and a beautiful hair ornament is ready.
• A bouquet of such flowers can be used as a boutonniere for the groom.
• Such gizmos - a beautiful decoration for curtains and curtains.
• Sow the old dress with small silk flowers, and you have a new trendy bow this season.
• Make a large number of silk jewelry of different sizes and collect them in an air necklace.
• From these flowers you will get excellent earrings or a hoop.
• In this technique, you can make a huge number of Christmas decorations.

Today, we have, to the smallest detail, disassembled making silk flowers by our own hands, told how to prepare the material for work independently, and shared some ideas on how to apply your products. We hope that we were able to answer all your questions.

Do it for your own pleasure!