There is no need to use real flowers, craft flowers are enough to express the beauty of nature. These everlasting flowers make for gorgeous decorations or gifts. Read on to learn how to make craft flowers from tissue paper, ribbon, or cloth.
The steps for making canvas flowers by hand are part of a series of tutorials on making craft flowers. The tutorials also include making paper towel flowers, making ribbon flowers, and making canvas flowers. Follow this article in the production department Steps to make canvas flowers by hand, let’s see how to DIY craft flowers.
Steps to make handmade canvas flowers
- 1Pick some cloth and other items. Tulle, silk, and some other bright, light fabrics are suitable for making canvas flowers. Heres what you'll use:
- A piece of cloth 50 cm long and 10 cm wide
- A needle and thread
- An iron
- 2Fold the cloth in half.
- 3Sew the short end.
- 4Turn the cloth inside out. This way the seams on both sides are on the inside.
- 5Iron both ends. Don't iron the middle of the fabric, or the resulting flower will have an ugly crease.
- 6Butter stitch along the long edge of the fabric. Sew with a needle and tie a knot at the end. Sew along the long edge of the pleated fabric, all the way to the other end.
- 7Ruffle the fabric. Push the fabric along the seams so that it tightens and looks like the petals of a rose.
- 8Sew the puckered end. Use the ends of the thread to sew the ruffled ends together to maintain the rose shape.
- 9Complete.
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