Quilling: snowflakes for beginners. Snowflakes in quilling technique: schemes

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There is more than one master class from which you can learn how easy it is to create a quilling snowflake. For beginners, this is absolutely not difficult if you break the whole process down.

What is quilling?

The quilling technique originated in European countries more than five hundred years ago and involves twisting paper strips and combining them into various patterns and crafts.

To create crafts using the quilling technique (snowflakes, for example), a minimum of tools is required: an awl (can be replaced with a toothpick), tweezers, scissors and glue. The most important material is paper, which is cut into strips. Most often, strips about three millimeters wide are used for crafts.

Simple snowflake

This craft is very easy to do and does not require special skills.

Master class on how to make snowflakes using quilling technique:

1. Take a sheet of plain paper and draw the same lines with a ruler and a pencil.
2. Cut the sheet into strips.
3. Take an awl or a toothpick and attach the edge of the paper to its endstripes.
4. Wrap the strip around the tool.
5. Glue the end of the strip to the resulting coil and carefully remove the roll from the awl.
6. Make another such coil, only now you need to slightly squeeze it with your fingers on one side.
7. Make five more of these drop spools.
8. Take the first card and glue six "droplets" to it.
9. Now roll six coils and squeeze with your fingers on two opposite sides. You should get a figure that resembles the shape of the eyes.
10. Then glue the new parts between the snowflake petals.
11. Take three strips, fold them in half and cut. As a result, you will get six short stripes.
12. Twist six spools of new strips.
13. Glue a new spool onto each tip of the eye piece.
14. Now make six more spools of long strips, just a little larger than the first one. To do this, do not tighten the paper too much.
15. Glue the new spools on top of the droplets between the small rolls.
16. Make six more large coils and bend the sides with your fingers to form a square.
17. Glue them with the top to the big coils.
18. Take a pencil and wind a paper strip around it.
19. Glue the end of the strip and remove the spool.
20. Glue a new spool to one of the tops of the snowflake and thread the ribbon or thread through the ring.

Such quilling snowflakes will look beautiful on a Christmas tree, doors or windows. Even after the end of the New Year holidays, many moreI don't want to shoot this beauty for a long time.

Snowflakes (quilling) - gluing schemes

You can make a lot of different snowflakes from just one part of the same shape. To do this, cut a lot of strips of the same length and width, take an awl or a toothpick and wind the rolls. Make more than ten units of identical coils, and then glue them together to make snowflakes (quilling). Schemes can be any, for example, as in the picture above.

In all cases, the process of gluing coils should begin from the middle of the craft. That is, glue the parts to each other so that they form a circle. Then continue to glue other coils. In some types, the rolls should fit snugly together, in others the center should be hollow.

More difficult crafts

It takes more time and perseverance to make openwork snowflakes using the quilling technique. But the result is worth it.

Instructions for creating openwork snowflakes:

1. Prepare paper strips, tweezers and glue (Figure 1).
2. Fold the five strips in half (Figure 2).
3. Glue one end of the strip with glue and glue it to the middle with tweezers (illustrations 3 and 4).
4. Wrap the other half of the strip around the petal and glue its end (illustrations 5, 6 and 7).
5. Saddle four more similar petals, only each should be smaller than the previous one. In total, six petals of each type are needed (Figure 8).
6. Take the smallest petal and grease its tip with glue (Figure 9).
7. Glue a petal in the middle of another (Figure 10).
8. Assemble all five petals in the same way (Figure 11).
9. Collect all six petals (Figure 12).
10. Squeeze the finished petal with your fingers, making it elongated (Figure 13).
11. Squash all six petals (Figure 14).
12. Glue all the petals together (Figure 15).
13. Cut off six more strips and fold them in half (Figure 16).
14. Cut off six strips, fold them in half and cut the ends diagonally (Figure 17)
15. Twist each end around an awl or toothpick (Figure 18).
16. At a distance of 3.5 centimeters from the middle, glue the coil (Figure 19).
17. Press lightly on each petal tip to fluff it out (Figure 20).
18. Glue "stamens" between the petals (Figure 21).
19. Insert the bevelled strips inside the "stamens" and glue them (Figure 22).
20. Take loose glitter and sprinkle it on the snowflake (Figure 23).

Snowflake ready!

Tips

1. You can make snowflake-candlesticks using the quilling technique. To do this, collect two crafts of different sizes - one smaller, the other larger. Then just glue one on top of the other. In the one that will be on top, the middle should be empty. This is where the candle-tablet will be inserted.
2. As a decor for snowflakes, you canuse beads, rhinestones, sequins and the like.
3. To achieve a fishnet look, expand your knowledge and make coils of different shapes.

Basic forms of quilling

There are twelve coil shapes that the quilling technique has. Snowflakes can be made using one or all of them.

1. Open spool: the end of the strip is not glued.
2. Closed coil: the end is glued.
3. Tight spool: the strip is stretched throughout the work and the end is tightly glued.
4. Big Spool: Uses a pencil to create.
5. Drop: one end is pressed with fingers.
6. Eye: Both ends are pressed with fingers.
7. Petal: The spool is compressed and folded on one side.
8. Sheet: the coil is compressed from both sides and waves are made.
9. Curls: the strip is folded in half, and then the ends are wound in the appropriate directions (inside, inside out, in different directions).

After you get acquainted with the main points, you can proceed to more complex work in the quilling technique.