How to Make Flowers from Silk Fabric
Silk flowers are an attractive alternative to live flowers in home decoration and bouquets for many reasons. They never wilt or die and they won't cause allergies. Although silk flowers aren't too expensive to buy in craft stores, homemade silk flowers can be even more inexpensive. In addition to this, homemade silk flowers can be customized in color, size and shape to meet anyone's needs or desires. With a few common crafting supplies, anyone can make inexpensive and personalized silk flowers.
Things You'll Need
- Silk
- Fabric scissors
- Thread
- Hand sewing needle
- Crinoline or interfacing material
- Floral wire
- Hot glue
- Floral tape
Instructions
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Cut out five pieces of silk, each 4 inches in diameter, in the desired petal shape.
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Hand sew a 1/4-inch-wide circle of stitches in the middle of the first silk piece. Draw the stitches in so that the center of the fabric is gathered up and forms a pucker in the middle.
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Sew the middle of the fabric piece to a piece of crinoline, with the puckered side of the silk facing up.
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Hand stitch a 1/2-inch circle in the middle of the second piece of silk and gather it just like the first silk piece.
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Sew the middle of the second silk piece (puckered side up) on top of the middle of the first silk piece, going all the way through to the crinoline.
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Sew progressively larger circles in the middle of the third, fourth and fifth fabric circles (3/4 inch, 1 inch and 1-1/4 inches, respectively).
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Gather the thread circles of the last three silk pieces and sew them on top of the other silk pieces, with the puckered sides up, going through all the layers of the fabric (crinoline included).
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Cut off the excess crinoline around the stitches. Hot glue the bottom of the flower to one end of a piece of floral wire.
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Wrap floral tape all around the stem of the flower.
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References
- Photo Credit orange silk flower image by Steve Mann from Fotolia.com
