How to make a quilling panel? DIY panel: materials, tools, master class

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Quilling is a wonderful and incredibly exciting art. People who see quilling panels on the wall are not able to understand how it is possible to make such a beautiful pattern from thin paper strips. Indeed, this technique requires certain skills and abilities, because completely different figures and elements of the picture can be rolled from the same strip.

Future professional masters begin training with simple petals and leaves, hone their skills with a quilling hook, comb and ruler. We will talk about the purpose of each tool a little later in the article. You will also learn how to make do-it-yourself quilling panels, how different elements are folded and how to attach them to the background surface and to each other in order to obtain a three-dimensional image.

Usually, crafts from strips of paper start with simple flowers like chamomile, with a round center and oblong petals. And only then they make up whole plotcanvases made of polyhedrons or strips glued to the end part. This is a very delicate and neat work that requires attention and concentration.

Quilling Tools and Materials

If you just want a little touch of the art of quilling, then first buy a quilling kit made of multi-colored strips of paper. Instead of a special folding hook, they either use their hands or wind the paper onto a wooden skewer, at the end of which they made a slot. Insert the edge of the strip into the hole and wind it around the stick.

However, to create a quilling panel, you will need to purchase all the necessary tools:

• A hook is a metal stick with a slit at the end to help wrap the paper around the base.
• Ruler - there are several types of it. For starters, you can purchase a variant with round holes of different diameters. Twisted hanks are inserted into them to create parts of the same size. There are rulers with triangular or curly holes.
• Comb or comb - strips are wound on the rods to create multi-level leaves and branched branches.
• Other auxiliary tools help in winding up.

You will also need scissors and PVA glue of a thick consistency to attach elements created using the quilling technique to the panel. Before doing the work, you need to think over the drawing, the strips of paper of what colors and width you need to purchase. They are sold in convenient sets of one or different colors.

Learning to make quilling elements

The simplest part in the quilling technique is considered to be a round skein. To make it, the edge of the paper strip is clamped into the slot of the hook and wound around the central axis until a certain circle thickness is reached. If one strip is not enough, then glue another one on the edge and continue winding further.

You can make not a tight, but a loose skein. This is what a line is for. The tightly twisted part is inserted into the hole of the selected diameter and the edge is released. The skein is unwound to the desired size and only then the edge of the strip is glued with PVA to the last turn.

The rest of the details are made from twists by squeezing with fingers on one or both sides. It turns out the shape of a leaf or a drop. If you need to make a triangle or give the skein a square shape, then squeeze the paper in several places.

Variety of parts

In addition to leaves and drops, circles and triangles, you can roll long twists with smaller inner coils. This can be done with a metal comb by threading paper between its rods.

Thin and long stems of plants and curls of tendrils are performed by gluing the strip with the end part. To do this, be sure to use thick PVA glue. After drying, the element is securely fixed on the background sheet of cardboard.

Gluing the strips together is done not only to increase the volume of the skein, but also for a two or three-color pattern. For example, one leaf can be decorated inside with a light green stripe, and the outer part can be made dark green.

The openwork details inside look beautiful, having several even turns on the outside.

Simple version of the picture

The quilling panel can be made from several colors. To make the craft voluminous, round dense centers are glued on top at the junction of several petals. The core of a wide strip looks interesting, one edge of which is cut into “noodles”. A CD was used as a basis for attaching a flower arrangement. First you need to cover the hole in the center to accommodate the center of the multi-colored petals.

For large flowers, strips of different colors are selected around the central composition. The inner loops are crocheted alternately, and the outer parts are assembled from dense coils. To ensure that all petals are the same size, use a template ruler.

Panel "Bride"

To create a gentle quilling panel, only white strips of paper were used. The picture combines two techniques - silhouette cutting and quilling. The head and neck of a girl, as well as the silhouette of a hand bent at the elbow, were cut out of black paper along the drawn contours. A veil and a dress with short puffed sleeves are made of quilling stripes. Most of the curved lines of the pattern are made by end-gluing thin strips.

Small identical flowers are located only on the skirt of the wedding dress. The master worked especially hard onbodice of the dress. For a thin waist, I had to cut a lot of small pieces and attach them parallel to each other. The panel looks spectacular due to the delicate pattern. The bride's pink bouquet stands out as a bright contrasting spot on a black and white background. Such a picture can be made as a gift to the newlyweds for a wedding, it will remind the newlyweds about the pleasant moments of their lives for a long time.

Unicorn for luck

A little pony from a popular cartoon was made by the method of end gluing curved stripes. Such a panel can decorate a girl's room. Despite the seeming simplicity, it took a lot of effort and time to complete such a picture. The glue must be applied to the selected place in a thin layer so that after drying there are no stains or dried drops.

Bend the strips with a crochet or with a round stick, for example, a felt-tip pen. It is enough to draw the rounded part of the rod over the paper so that a thin strip curls up. In such work, great attention is also paid to the accuracy of measuring each element. Additional expressiveness of the picture adds a spectacular combination of colors.

Panel "Birds" - do-it-yourself quilling

The next version of the picture, in addition to flowers, contains an image of two small birds. Each oblong detail of the titmouse is performed on a comb from the set. Collect the image together on a separately cut cardboard template. On the selected background, the strips of the basket are first glued, then flowers with petals of the same color are collected separately.

The core is attached with the second tier, so the image is voluminous. The same is true with the bouquet. Some flowers are attached directly to the background paper, others either to the bottom row or to a stand made of a thick roll of paper. To give the flower a concave shape, a bowl or ball is used when gluing. When the glue sets, the round shape will remain.

Volumetric quilling

Details for paintings or panels are placed either directly on the background sheet, or on a stand of one or more tightly wound circles. In the picture shown in the photo below, you can see how spectacular the flowers look, collected from several layers. The lower, largest, consists of almond-shaped petals, collected from white and pink elements. Two flowers are attached on top, identical in color, but different in diameter. The white center completes the job.

As you can see, you can diversify the work with stripes at will, combining different techniques and combining small elements into one piece. Try to create a wall panel with your own hands to decorate your workplace or living space. It's incredibly exciting! Good luck!