Recently, handmade jewelry has been enjoying great excitement. With the help of them, girls complement their image and add comfort to their home. A handmade product that will never go out of fashion was and always will be flowers. With flowers, you can decorate the curtains in your apartment, hair, or even collect a necklace, earrings or ring from them.
There are a huge number of techniques for making these wildlife elements: beadwork, polymer clay, cold porcelain, knitting - these are just a few of the ways to create them.
In today's article, we will talk about how to make silk flowers with your own hands.
Why silk?
- Silk flowers seem more realistic and airy.
- Shine and pleasant to the touch texture of this fabric will remain for many years.
- Silk is an environmentally friendly material.
- Jewelry made from natural fabrics looks more stylish and expensive.
- Crafts from such a material perfectly keep the given shape and dry quickly.
You may ask why buy natural silk if there is a huge selection of synthetic fabrics with a much more pleasant price. Of course, you’re right, if you make hairpins or elastic bands for a child who can easily spoil or lose, it’s better not to spend a lot of money on expensive fabric, but if you want to make a jewelry for an adult as a gift, then you will agree that it will be much more advantageous silk flowers look.
It’s not so difficult to make such jewelry with your own hands, especially if you come across an understandable master class.
Materials and tools you need
Before you start making flowers from silk with your own hands, let's look at the list of accessories you need:
- Silk (if you are making a flower for the first time, we recommend that you first practice on inexpensive material with a similar texture).
- Scissors (very sharp).
- Glue gun.
- Buns (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.
- Thick stencil paper.
We make a stencil
Do-it-yourself silk flowers for beginner needlewomen without a stencil will be quite problematic to make, so we present you a description of its manufacture.
- First of all, you need to find or buy a live flower in the flower shop that 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.
- Sort the petals in size in stacks.
- Take a copy from each pile.
- While straightening and firmly pressing the petals to a thick sheet of paper, circle them.
- Cut the stencils with scissors.
Silk preparation for work
In order to make flowers from silk with your own hands and betray them greater strength and realism, you need to gel the silk.
This is done as follows:
- We heat 0.5 l of water to a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius.
- We dissolve 7 tablespoons of gelatin in heated water.
- Soak the silk in the resulting solution.
- We take out the fabric from the gelatin mixture and leave it to dry (in no case do not squeeze it).
The material is ready to go!
DIY silk flowers. Master Class
How many flowers on planet Earth, so many, probably, there are master classes on their production. Of course, one article is not enough to tell everyone about them, so today we will make flowers from silk with our own hands, which are especially 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 favorite flower of the person to whom you want to make a gift, stop your choice on it.
Materials and tools that you need to purchase:
- Treated silk in red, white, pink or yellow.
- A denser but lighter green material for receptacle with sepals.
- Scissors.
- Vata.
- Buns.
- Glue gun.
- Glue for glue gun.
- Stencil paper.
- Floristic wire.
We make flowers from silk with our own hands
- We cut out a square from paper, each side of which is 9 centimeters.
- Cut a square 8.5 cm in size
- We make another 1 square, which should be less than the first by 1 and 1.5 cm.
- Fold each square four times and round off their edges so that when you unfold them, you get 4-petal flowers.
- We make 3-4 copies of each silk stencil.
- We cut the sepals with the receptacle from a denser fabric.
- If you choose a white or pale pink color, if you wish, you can tint the petal flowers in a darker shade.
- Stretch the edges of all the petals with your fingers to make them wavy.
- Twist each petal individually with your fingers and wait until they straighten.
- Press the bulb with the center of each petal so that they become rounded.
- Pierce the center of each flower of four petals with a thick needle.
- You can treat the sepals with the back of the bouillon in the same way.
- We bend the wire in half and insert a small piece of cotton into the resulting loop.
- We twist the ends of the wire together.
- We twist the cotton so that a droplet forms on top of the wire as on an ear stick.
- Lubricate the cotton ball with PVA glue.
- String the first flower on the wire and twist its petals around the cotton
- We put the next flower on the wire, drip a little glue from the glue gun to the bottom of the previous one and twist the petals around it.
- Repeat these steps until all the flowers are over.
- Glue to the last petals of the receptacle.
- Leave the finished rose to dry.
- Cut off the excess wire.
What can silk flowers be adapted for?
Now that you know how to make flowers from silk with your own hands, let's decide how practically you can use them:
- After gluing a felt circle on the back of the product, attach a pin to it and wear the flower like a brooch.
- Attach a silk rose to an elastic band or hair clip, and the perfect hair ornament is ready.
- A bouquet of flowers can be used as a buttonhole for the groom.
- Such gizmos are a wonderful decoration for curtains and curtains.
- Embroider an old dress with small silk flowers, and you are ready for a new bow fashionable this season.
- Make a large number of silk jewelry of different sizes and collect them in an airy necklace.
- Such flowers will make excellent earrings or a hoop.
- In this technique, you can make a huge number of Christmas tree decorations.
Today, to the smallest details, we have examined the manufacture of flowers from silk with our own hands, told how to independently prepare the material for work, and shared some ideas where you can apply your products. We hope that we were able to answer all your questions.
Create for your own pleasure!