Recently, a flower has become a very popular accessory among all fashionistas. Most often it is made by hand using one of the handicraft techniques. Today I will tell you how to make a kanzashi rose at home with your own hands.
For the process we will need:
- Two types of satin ribbons, 5 cm wide.
- scissors
- candle or lighter
- tweezers
- sewing pins
- thread with needle.
The first step is to cut the ribbons into equal pieces. The width of each piece should be 5 cm and the length 10 cm.
In order to be able to work with the ribbons without loss, you need to melt their edges over a fire. Try to bring the edge to the lower level of the fire, so the material does not melt too much and does not become smoky. By the way, you need to bring the fabric to the fire with the wrong side down, so as not to leave streaks or traces of soot on the front.
To make my rose, I needed 18 pieces of fuchsia ribbon for the petals and 4 pieces of green ribbon for the leaves.
Let's start making petals. Place the ribbon vertically, wrong side up. Now, bend the upper right corner to the middle of the lower part.
We do the same with the left side.
Next, we pull the appeared right corner towards the middle.
We repeat the procedure with the left corner and secure the resulting “house” with a pin.
To create a flower you will need 22 petals: 18 pink and 4 green.
Now, let's collect everything in one tape. To do this, you will need a thread to match the outer petals (mine is green) and a long needle (preferably beaded). We sew the right half of the petal,
and on the left we put the right part of the second petal and sew them together.
Using this method, we collect all the prepared petals on a string.
Now we begin to twist the bud,
gradually sewing them together with thread at the base.
When almost the entire flower is twisted,
you need to sew the entire base with an overcast stitch to secure the result.
We begin to gradually give our bud the correct shape; to do this, we bend the petals down one by one.
The result is a flower like this.
If we want to use it as a brooch, we need to attach a clasp to it. The ideal solution would be to simply use the base from an old unnecessary icon,
But you can design something similar yourself. To make it you will need 2 pieces of cardboard or plastic, scissors, glue and a regular pin. We make small cuts in the cardboard and carefully insert a pin into them so that the stationary part remains at the bottom.
Then we glue a second layer of cardboard for thickness.
Next, we cut off all the excess so that the clasp is not visible because of the flower.
To attach it, fill the base of the bud well with glue. Special rubber glue is best, but you can get by with regular “super” or “401”.
Now we press the lock blank against the glued base for a while and wait for the glue to stick.
Well, the flower is ready. You can use it as a brooch,
Or you can attach it to the headband.
