- Materials for felt flowers
- Felt flower patterns
- Felt rose
- Felt violet
- Felt chrysanthemum
- Felt peony
- Felt hydrangea
- Pillow with felt flowers
An original decorative decoration in Handmade style – felt flowers. It’s easy and fairly quick to do, but it turns out very unusual and beautiful.
Felt, it should be noted, is the favorite material of handicraft masters. How many possibilities it opens up for creating a designer item. Judge for yourself how original a flower brooch on a black dress will look. And in general, on a dress of any solid color. After all, sometimes a small accessory is enough to make the same outfit look fresh and new. You can also use felt decorations to complement the appearance of the box, decorate a postcard or photo album. Felt flowers look original on handbags, hairpins, as decoration for hairbands, as well as in the design of any gift souvenirs.
A few words about what felt is and the reasons for its popularity. Felt is nothing more than felt made from rabbit or goat hair. Felt, in turn, is a non-woven textile. Wool or synthetic fibers can be used as a base. The choice of wool is determined by the peculiarity of its structure. The fact is that the edges of its fibers have so-called “notches”. This ensures good adhesion of the fibers to each other.
Making felt flowers with your own hands is a fun and not difficult activity. And all this thanks to the pliability of the material. It differs in its density and thickness. Felt can be bought at almost any craft store or ordered online. More often on sale there are felt sheets with a thickness of 2-2.5 mm and a size of 30*40 cm, as well as a thickness of 4 mm and a size of 20*30 cm.
At the stage of choosing shades, you can show all the richness of your own imagination. The creative process fully corresponds to the author's concept and imagination, and therefore products can be created in any color scheme. Fortunately, the modern market for handicrafts makes it easy to realize even the most daring ideas. Some people use ready-made felt sheets with floral prints. Others prefer to combine the original contrasting colors. The boundaries of this process are determined solely by the taste of the master.
Felt flower patterns
Felt flowers, patterns of which can be found in large quantities in catalogs of online magazines, are usually very simply designed. A regular chamomile template can be used as a base. But the work, made in several layers of contrasting or monochrome colors, takes on a completely different concept. Cut out paper petals. This will be the template. Here are some ready-made patterns for felt flowers:
Let's look at the assembly process using the example of a flower made using this pattern:
First you need to recreate the pattern design directly on the fabric.
Next, cut out the felt blanks. The petals turned out to be of different sizes in accordance with the level of location.
Then the edge of each petal is trimmed with a skillful seam using floss or not processed at all.
We place the petals on top of each other from largest to smallest (or vice versa) and sew them in the center to form a recess for the future flower (you need to sew it tightly). And let's move on to creating the core. Place a circle cut out of felt on glue and place it in the middle of the flower.
Sequins, pre-prepared beads, beautiful beads will add originality to the resulting work of art.
Depending on the intended purpose of the product, we attach a pin or sew an elastic band to its reverse side.
We are posting a few more photos of flowers that inspire new creations. Each of these flowers uses French knots as an additional decoration:
The felt flowers presented below are master classes from handicraft masters. These works will help beginners master the simple creativity of creating decorative floral elements.
Preparatory stage
The panel is almost a painting, but more original. Recently, panels have become often used in interiors. There are a lot of panel styles, so it will suit every type. Many people try to create such paintings themselves, and some do it very well.
What does sheet felt look like?
Making a felt panel yourself is very easy. To do this, you just need to select the necessary materials and tools, as well as find suitable patterns. Step-by-step implementation of simple processes will help you achieve the desired result and make a beautiful original panel.
Note! Any panel will be different from the others, even if it is carried out strictly according to the scheme.
An example of what a light fabric panel looks like
Felt rose (master class)
This amazing accessory is ready to “settle” on the evening dress or coat of its resourceful owner.
Let's start from the base of the flower. To do this, we will prepare a circle whose diameter will be 10 cm. We cut out semicircular petals along the edges of the circle, gradually moving from the outer edge inward.
The central part is rolled up, thereby forming the core of the future rose.
It needs to be secured with a pin and filled with a layer of glue. After the glue has dried, you need to wrap the rest of the felt around the resulting bud and close the cut from the bottom side.
This is such a wonderful rose that you will end up with!
If you make several roses, glue them to a piece of fabric and sew on a metal clasp, you will get a wonderful brooch!
For clarity, a few more roses made according to a similar principle:
Tsvoric shows how to decorate a hairband with felt roses (music by Key.peter):
What are berets good for?
Hats can be worn in any season; they perfectly emphasize the shape of the face. Quite easy to sew and decorate, it will become an indispensable part of your wardrobe. They can be worn with coats, jackets or suits. A hand-made knitted beret will highlight the individuality of your look.
Beret, fabric pattern
For example, in France, women have hats for different occasions. Both for holidays and for everyday outings. They can complement business suits or evening dresses. And children generally cannot do without this clothing. It perfectly protects from the sun or light rain, and does not allow drafts to pass through.
Felt violet (master class)
Materials for work:
- felt (sheets of two different colors: lilac - for petals, green - for leaves)
- scissors
- threads, the color of which should match the color of the violet
- needle
Let's prepare 5 templates for future petals (diameter - 4 cm):
We take one of the petals in our hands and fold it in half twice. We get a petal in the form of a corner:
Using a couple of stitches we attach the corner to one of the blanks:
We repeat the steps for the remaining petal corners. To achieve the desired neat effect, carefully monitor the direction of the petals (they should be directed in one direction):
At the end of the work, the flower should be thoroughly straightened:
Let's move on to cutting out the leaves:
Sew them together:
Lifting the petal, we fasten the leaves to the base:
We enjoy the result!
For example, you can decorate a headband with such flowers:
Fashionable styles
When choosing a factory product, you need not only to follow fashion, but also to know which variety suits a certain type of face. Any round hat visually lengthens the look. Therefore, it is not recommended to be worn by girls with an oval face type.
With visor
Despite the fact that the visor characterizes a cap or cap, it can also be present on berets. The barely noticeable length adorns the face and does not cover it at the same time.
Beret hat with visor
The most common model that can be found in stores. It is easy to sew, which is why it is so popular among other products. Women's berets made of mink, arctic fox, and sable look ideal with leather outerwear, down jackets and winter jackets. With a mink coat, it must be selected carefully. It should be a tone darker or lighter than the outerwear.
Mink fur beret
Women's fur berets themselves provide additional volume to the head due to the pile. The longer it is, the more impressive the headdress looks. When purchasing such an accessory, you do not need to decorate it with various decorations. They will only spoil the image and impression of the sophistication of the texture of the material.
With elastic band
This type of model fits perfectly on the head and does not fall off when wind or movement occurs. Typically, a wide elastic band is used along the edge of the factory product.
Various decorations are added to the look if the headdress has thin and not long pile. Various brooches, flowers, pendants are placed on the side.
Fur beret with decor
Good to know! Manufacturers cannot do without blanks. This item follows the shape of the head and is designed for sewing hats.
Felt chrysanthemum (master class)
The felt strip must be folded in half (widthwise). For reliability, fasten with sewing pins.
On the side where the fold was made, we form identical cuts.
Using matching threads, we sew the strip with large stitches and roll it into a roll, forming petals. We secure it by sewing the layers together in several places.
All that remains is to straighten the felt and form a beautiful flower!
How to make a hanging loop
There are times when it is necessary to sew a loop into a felt product, and many craftsmen try to make an invisible seam.
Loop for a toy
Here is an example of how to sew a loop unnoticed into a felt toy:
- Take the toy and use scissors to make a depression in it.
- Insert the ribbon into a thick needle and pierce the toy from the bottom.
- Bring the needle up. If it comes out hard, you can pull it out with pliers. When the ribbon is pulled out, a tail remains at the bottom.
- Insert the needle from top to bottom next to the finished hole. The end of the tape is pulled out at the bottom.
- It turns out to be a loop, and at the bottom there are two ends of the ribbon that need to be tied and pulled by the loop so that the knot is hidden in the hole. The loop is ready.
Thus, making panels with your own hands is easy and simple. There are quite a lot of master classes on creating appliqués, ranging from personalized paintings to landscapes. The main thing is to follow the instructions, and then everything will definitely work out.
Felt peony
This flower will consist of a large number of petals.
Having cut out rectangles from felt, make a fringe on one edge and round the other. There should be about 20 petals. They should all be different sizes.
We pinch the edge that was rounded and fix the petal with glue.
Forming a flower:
Cut out a yellow strip. We cut it on one side. Then we roll it up and fix it with glue. We get the finished core.
To use a flower as a brooch, you need to attach a small piece of felt to the base from the wrong side, and then pin it all together with a pin or metal clasp.
Features of the material
Felt is a type of felt. It is made by felting rabbit or goat fluff, fur waste, and fine wool. Modern material may also contain synthetic fibers.
Different types of felt differ both in appearance and in surface features. There are usually two main types:
- pile;
- smooth.
The first option is slightly fluffy, the second is smooth and silky to the touch, with a slight glossy tint. The use of different types of materials in one craft attracts attention with its originality and interesting solutions in depicting the plot.
Felt hydrangea (master class)
Materials for the flower:
- felt
- scissors
- glue gun
It is necessary to cut out 13 felt circles of the following sizes: 1 piece - with a diameter of 3 cm, 12 pieces - with a diameter of 2 cm.
We apply hot glue to the center of each circle and thus form future petals.
We take a large circle and, using a glue gun, distribute 4 prepared petals along its perimeter.
Between these petals we glue the next four. Repeat until the circle is filled.
