Fabric Flowers #2

These fabric flowers are the easiest to make, but they can try your patience when your first learning. You can make them into rings like pictures above, or into bracelets

Or into earrings

Or into headbands

Just add a hair clip or pin to make then versatile.
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Items you will need:

Fabric- MUST be Synthetic fabric such as organza, silk, etc. that burns easily.
Hot glue gun
Candle
Tweezers or a tool to hold the fabric with over the candle flame.

Optional items:

Gems, buttons to decorate with.
Small ponytails to make rings.
Pins/hair clip backings.
Stretchable headbands or hard headbands.
Bracelets.

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First you want to cut your fabric (can use synthetic ribbon too) into different size circles. They do not have to be perfect circles, just cut them out by hand or if your lucky and have a circle cutter or a cricut or other machine to do the cutting- go for it!

Also, most of these fabrics will fray which is fine, once heat is applied the fraying will stop and be melted together.

!Warning! You are using live flame, so please take every procaution, keep a cup of water near by just in case, and do this on a kitchen countertop away from everything that could catch on fire. Please keep CHILDREN away when doing this project!

~Some have used heat guns, but I found they only worked on the organza fabric and it took forever, but if you much rather do that please do. I do not blame anyone, I burned myself a few times but mostly with the glue gun not the flame.~


Get your glue gun ready, and light your candle. Again, I did not take pictures of this process because I had no one to ask (maybe later) but I will walk you through this process:



Pick up an end of your fabric with the tweezers.
Carefully hold it HIGH above your flame. (do not let it touch the flame!)
It takes time to play around with each fabric, but soon you will master this part.
You will see the end of your fabric curl. It will only take a second for this to happen if close to the flame.
Now move your tweezers to a different spot on the fabric, and again put an edge high above the flame till it curls too.
Keep repeating this process until all edges are curled.

You can curl the edges a lot or a little, it's up to you. But be warned some fabric like Organza will burn easily and does not need to be close at all to the flame like a thick fabric would. It takes time to get used to each fabric as I mentioned.

You will then have different size pieces curled like the ones above.

Now you can glue them together in the middle, or off center them for a different look.

For my headbands I first cut out a felt piece and glued them onto it in layers to give it a different look.

Now you can adorn it with gems, buttons etc. and attach it to pins, headbands etc. in the same process I shared in the first fabric flowers post below.
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If after you have put them together and they start fraying-which sometimes they do, carefully put them over the flame again, that will seal them back up. If you sell them, make sure you tell your customers this, because ones that are warn a lot like the rings will fray from time to time.

Good luck and have some fun!!


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