How to Make a "V" Scroll With Paper Quilling

Paper quilling has enjoyed resurgence in recent years, finding a niche in card making and scrapbooking. Quilling has existed for at least 500 years and is a simple yet elaborate craft. With the basic tools and a supply of quilling paper, it is a craft most anyone can do. Scrolls and coils are the two basic shapes. A "V" Scroll can be used as feelers on a quilled caterpillar, bumblebee or butterfly or can be used in an alternating pattern for a unique border.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Scissors
• Needle quilling tool
• Waxed paper
• Quilling paper
• Quick drying glue

1. Cut a strip of quilling paper to 3 inches long.

2. Fold the quilling strip in half.

3. Coil one edge of the quilling paper around the needle quilling tool towards the fold, stopping just short of the fold.

4. Release the coil from the tool.

5. Twist the other edge of the quilling paper around the quilling tool, again stopping short of the fold.

6. Pinch the middle of the quilling strip again, making a V shape. The coils should face outside the
   'V."

7. Decorate cards, tags or framed art with the finished scrolls and other quilled shapes.

Tips & Warnings

• The V's interior can be glued closed to create a stem with two coils.

• The V scroll can be bent the other way to create a heart scroll. Glue the two facing coils together to keep the heart shape.

• To create the Quotation scroll, recreate the "V" scroll but make sure the coils curl the same direction then pinch the middle. One coil will be on the outside of the "V" and one will be on the inside.