Quilling lesson: "Tulip"

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In this needlework lesson, we will take a closer look at how to create beautiful products using the quilling technique. The tulip is a great object for this technique, even beginners and school-age children can handle it.

What is quilling

Quilling (paper rolling) is a creative technique based on the production of flat or three-dimensional images from twisted long paper strips. In Russia, this art gained popularity relatively recently - around the end of the twentieth century.

Modern craftswomen create paper jewelry, interior items and decorative panels. You can find a variety of quilling kits in craft stores. You can make products yourself, from the materials that are at hand.

Why use quilling

In modern interiors, plain walls, decorated with paintings or artistic compositions, are becoming popular. Quilling tulips can be a real highlight in any room! They look especially appropriate in the kitchen and living room.

Quilling is also used to create postcards, in this techniquedecorate gifts and make paper accessories (for example, a flower brooch will add originality to even the simplest dress).

Features of tulips

Tulips are considered to be the most spring flowers. They are bright, beautiful, have a wonderful aroma and delight the eye. Tulip shape:

• pale green stem;
• elongated, pointed leaves;
• a flower of several petals that overlap each other and form an elongated bowl.

The most common colors of tulips are red, pink and yellow.

This flower symbolizes eternal love (in the culture of the East). Postcards and panels depicting tulips are usually given to women on March 8 or any other holiday. A paper variation of a flower can delight all year round, not just in spring.

Quilling workshop: tulips

The structure of the tulip flower is quite simple. Therefore, even a person without much creative experience can handle tulip quilling. To get the job done the first time, you need to carefully follow the recommendations below and follow the sequence in the stages of work. Let's consider in detail how to make quilling "Tulips".

Preparatory stage

First of all, to make Tulip quilling, you need to prepare a cardboard base and colored paper. At least two colors are required - green and, for example, red (or any other, depending on the shade of the future flower).

Colored paper should be the samedensity and thickness. It is better to take medium paper weight (thin paper can tear, and it is difficult to work with thick paper).

Colored paper is cut into even strips of the same width. Optimum strip width for quilling: 5-10 millimeters. The length should be about 30 cm. For cutting, it is better to use a sharp cutter and a metal ruler. The work is carried out on a board.

Additional Materials:

• glue;
• needle or wooden skewer for winding paper.

Making a flower

Working in the Tulip quilling technique is quite simple to do:

• A neat spiral is wound around a thick needle or wooden skewer. To make it even, you can use a special ruler with round holes. It will also help control the diameter of the circle so that all the flowers turn out to be the same size as a result.
• The end of the paper spiral is fixed with glue. When it dries, you need to make sure that the paper blank is strong and will not fall apart when deformed.

• With the help of a needle, the upper part of the prepared spiral is pressed through. At the same time, the outer contour of the tulip is formed by hands. We need to move smoothly and slowly.
• The finished flower is glued to the stem.

Making a bud

1. Start with twisting the spiral.
2. When the spiral blank is ready and the tip is firmly glued, you need to shape the bud with your hands. That is, on the one hand, the spiral must be compressed. Internalpart of the blank can take an arbitrary shape - so the bud will look interesting and "live".

Making leaves

Tulip leaves are elongated and pointed. Work steps:

1. A short strip of green is taken. The ends of the strip are glued together.
2. A longer strip is taken and superimposed on top of the previous one.
3. This step is repeated as many times as needed to make the sheet.
4. The finished blank must be bent by hand so that a pointed tip is formed, and the shape of the sheet itself begins to resemble the natural one.

Shutting down

When the paper blanks of leaves, flowers and buds are ready, you can begin to form the composition. Before gluing, you just need to lay out the blanks on a cardboard base. This approach allows you to move the elements, experiment and look for their ideal location. In the process of creating a composition, sometimes it turns out that some details are superfluous, or something is missing. This is perfectly normal, as the creative process involves flexibility and constant exploration.

When the picture in the technique of quilling "Tulip" is laid out and completely satisfied with the author, you can start gluing. At the same time, accuracy and accuracy must be observed. The glue must be transparent. Traces of glue or excess glue can spoil even a good composition.

Thus, the picture in the style of quilling "Tulip" is ready and canbe used as a gift or room decoration.

Gradually, filling your hand, you can move on to the performance of compositions of more complex forms. Having passed all the stages of the tulip quilling master class, you can achieve real professionalism in this difficult, but very exciting art.