Tulips are now very popular, they are used to decorate the interior. They also sew cute tilde-style toys and put wonderful fabric tulips into their hands. You can sew a tulip from fabric of any size.
Fabric selection
Toys in the tilde style are sewn mainly from natural fabrics. You can take linen, cotton and other fabrics in soothing colors. Tulips made in this technique are often made from fabrics of saturated colors. When it is not possible to find the material of the desired color, you can slightly tint white. For this, it is permissible to use natural dyes such as tea or onion, in addition, aniline dyes can be used. The main thing is to stain the fabric evenly. Sewing tulips from fabric with your own hands is not as easy as it seems, because you need to do a neat job with the details.
For stuffing tulips, you can use a synthetic winterizer or holofiber. For stems, a thin wire is used, which allows the stems to give the necessary bend filler.
Flower pattern
Since tulips can be sewn different, there can be different sizes and patterns. Fabric tulips can be made based on the one presented below. For convenience, the above pattern can be copied directly from the monitor screen to transparent paper. It can also be printed on a printer, and there are additional functions where you can choose the size of the printed image.
If you build a pattern yourself, it is recommended to adhere to the following proportions. The pattern of the sheet in size is slightly smaller than the stem. As in nature, the leaves on the tulip stem grow almost from the ground and catch up with the flower in height. The size of the bud is about the same as the real unopened tulip bud (9 cm), the height of the legs can be adjusted, depending on which vase the flower will stand in.
Work with tools and cloth
To sew a tulip from a fabric, you need the fabric itself for the leaves and the stem in one color, and for flowers you can choose fabrics in one color scheme or in shades that will harmoniously look in the bouquet. You will also need material for stuffing and the pattern itself.
Pins come in handy in order to fix the pattern on the fabric, it is very convenient to use. In order to cut out the details, it is better to use curly scissors with a zigzag. This will save the fabric from shedding, but if there are no such scissors, you can leave the edge as is, just in this case you should not cut the allowances close to the seam, otherwise the seam will break when stuffing. If you adhere to the recommendations, then you can sew tulips from fabric without problems. The master class proposed below covers in detail all stages of the work.
If synthetic fabric is used, then allowances can be scorched; otherwise, when stuffing, the seams will simply burst out.
Work with patterns
Ready patterns need to pin to the fabric. For one tulip, it is necessary to carve 2 details of the bud along the oblique thread, 2 parts of the leaf along the shared thread and one detail for the stem along the shared thread.
When the details are cut, they must be stitched. A fabric tulip consists of three elements: legs, leaf and bud. In order for all the elements to look neat after eversion, it is necessary to cut the fabric on the corners of the legs and in the corner of the tulip. After turning in these places there will be no unnecessary sealing. It is not difficult to turn out the leaf and the bud, but you will have to work with the stem carefully so as not to tear it at the seam. Depending on the thickness of the stem, you can use a knitting needle or chopstick for sushi. Three stitched blanks must be filled with filler.
Parts collection
Gathering all the details together is no less responsible task than a neat cut and stitching. Hand-made tulips made of fabric will become a valuable gift for everyone, because having handmade products is a real luxury, craftsmen put their whole soul into creating such masterpieces.
The bud needs to be pulled a little. Due to the fact that the details for him were cut along the oblique thread, it acquires a beautiful rounded shape. Insert the foot into the base of the bud. The leg must also be preliminarily filled with a synthetic winterizer and then the wire should be inserted over the entire length of the leg. We fix the stalk with a secret seam at the base of the bud. Here the tulip from the fabric is ready, it remains only to sew a leaf.
The leaf does not need to be filled with anything, but it is advisable to iron it from the front so that it becomes flat and the internal seams do not puff. The base of the petal is carefully formed, for this the raw edge is tucked inward and fixed with a hidden seam. It remains to fix the sheet on the stem. We wrap the stalk with a sheet and stitch it with invisible neat seams. The flower is ready!