How to make DIY silk flowers?

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Recently, handmade jewelry has been in great demand. With the help of them, girls complement their image and add comfort to their home. Flowers were and always will be a handmade product that will never go out of fashion. With flowers, you can decorate the curtains in your apartment, hair, or even make a necklace, earrings or a ring out of them.

There are a huge number of techniques for making these elements of wildlife: beading, polymer clay, cold porcelain, knitting - this is just a small part of the ways to create them.

In today's article we will talk about how to make silk flowers with your own hands.

Why silk?

• Silk flowers seem more realistic and airy.
• The sheen and texture of this fabric will last for years to come.
• Silk - eco friendlyclean material.
• Jewellery made from natural fabrics looks more stylish and expensive.
• Crafts made from this material keep their shape perfectly and dry quickly.

You may ask why buy natural silk when there is a huge selection of synthetic fabrics with a much better price. Of course, you are right, if you are making hairpins or elastic bands for a child who can easily ruin or lose, then it is better not to spend a lot of money on expensive fabric, but if you want to make jewelry for an adult as a gift, then you will agree that it will be much more advantageous look silk flowers.

It is not so difficult to make such jewelry with your own hands, especially if you come across an understandable master class.

Materials and tools you will need

Before you start making silk flowers with your own hands, let's take a look at the list of supplies you need:

• Silk (if you are making a flower for the first time, we advise you to first practice on an inexpensive material with a similar texture).
• Scissors (very sharp).
• Glue gun.
• Bulki (these are metal sticks with a ball at the end).
• Water.
• Gelatin.
• Special knives of various shapes (if not available, you can use a blade).
• Ruler.
• Marker.
• Heavy stencil paper.

Making a stencil

Flowersit will be quite problematic to make it from silk with your own hands for beginner needlewomen without a stencil, so we present you a description of its manufacture.

• First of all, you need to find or buy a live flower in a flower shop that you want to recreate and disassemble it into individual petals.
• Carefully consider and remember all the curves and shape of each part of the flower.
• Distribute the petals by size into piles.
• Take a copy from each pile.
• Straighten and tightly pressing the petals to a thick sheet of paper, circle them.
• Cut out the stencils with scissors.

Preparing silk for work

In order to make silk flowers with your own hands and give them greater strength and realism, it is necessary to gelatinize the silk.

This is done as follows:

• We heat 0.5 liters of water to a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius.
• Dissolve 7 tablespoons of gelatin in warm water.
• Soak silk in the resulting solution.
• Remove the fabric from the gelatin mixture and leave it to dry (do not wring it out).

Material ready to go!

DIY silk flowers. Master class

How many flowers there are on the planet Earth, there are probably so many master classes for making them. Of course, one article is not enough to tell about them all, so today we will make silk flowers with our own hands, which are especially popular - roses.

Rose

Rose is the queen of all flowers. Most of the female half of the population prefers this particular plant. If you do not know the favorite flower of the person you want to give a gift to, stop your choice on it.

Materials and tools you need to purchase:

• Processed silk in red, white, pink or yellow.
• A denser but lighter green material for a receptacle with sepals.
• Scissors.
• Wadding.
• Bulki.
• Glue gun.
• Glue for the glue gun.
• Stencil paper.
• Floral wire.

Make silk flowers with your own hands

• Cut out a square from paper, each side of which is 9 centimeters.
• Cut out a square, the size of which is 8.5 cm
• We make 1 more square each, which should be 1 and 1.5 cm smaller than the first one.
• Four-fold each square and round off the edges so that when you unfold them, you get flowers of 4 petals.
• Make 3-4 copies of each silk stencil.
• Cut out the sepals with the receptacle from a denser fabric.
• If you chose white or soft pink, you can tint the petal flowers a darker shade if you like.
• Spread the edges of all the petals with your fingers to make them wavy.
• Twist each petal individually with your fingers and wait until they straighten out.
• Pull the center of each petal into a round shape.
• Poke the center of each four-petal flower with a thick needle.
• You can work the back of the sepals in the same way.
• Bend the wire in half and insert a small piece of cotton wool into the resulting loop.
• Twist the ends of the wire together.
• Twist the cotton wool so that a drop forms at the top of the wire like on an ear stick.
• Lubricate a cotton ball with PVA glue.
• We string the first flower on the wire and twist its petals around cotton wool
• We put the next flower on a wire, drip a little glue from the glue gun on the bottom of the previous one and twist the petals around it.
• Repeat these steps until all the flowers run out.
• Glue the receptacle to the last petals.
• Let the finished rose dry.
• Cut off excess wire.

What can silk flowers be used for?

Now that you know how to make DIY silk flowers, let's see how you can practically use them:

• Glue a circle of felt on the back of the product, attach a pin to it and wear the flower as a brooch.
• Attach a silk rose to an elastic band or clip and you have a beautiful hair accessory.
• A bouquet of these flowers can be used as a boutonniere for the groom.
• Such gizmos are a wonderful decoration for curtains andcurtains.
• Embroider an old dress with small silk flowers, and you have a new trendy bow this season.
• Make lots of different sizes of silk jewelry and assemble them into a fluffy necklace.
• These flowers make great earrings or a hoop.
• In this technique, you can make a huge amount of Christmas decorations.

Today we took a close look at making silk flowers with our own hands, told how to prepare the material for work on our own, and shared some ideas where you can apply your products. We hope we were able to answer all your questions.

Create to your heart's content!