These flowers can be used to embellish sweaters and shirts, or put on pin backings for convenient flower-brooches. The one pictured will be used on Belle’s capelet in a production of Beauty and the Beast- starring my little brother as the Beast himself!
For now I have only a few pictures for illustration. When I make more I will update with more illustrative pictures. The thing is, these roses are super easy to make and for that reason it is super hard to explain this how-to in step fashion. I recommend making them out of light spring-time colors to add a splash of color to your day.
Needed:
- Scrap fabric
- Hot Glue Gun + Hot Glue Sticks
- Scissors
The First Step
. . . is to cut out at least 9 petal shapes from the scrap fabric. A good size is about an inch wide by an inch tall- but eyeballing it is perfectly acceptable.
9 petals will make one good sized rose.
The Second Step
. . . is to take one petal and roll it into a tall cylinder, using hot glue at the bottom to hold the roll. This will serve as the middle petal of your rose.
The Third- and Fun- Step
. . .is to hold the rolled petal in one hand, upright. Place a tiny line of hot glue down the side, at the bottom of the roll and pinch just the bottom of a second petal into the hot glue line.
Repeat this process on the other side. The pinching adds definition to your petals, and just gluing the bottoms means you can artfully fold the petals when you complete your project. For the next petal, try gluing it where the last two overlap.
From here it’s all on you. How do you want your rose to look? Add more petals for a crowded look or fewer petals for a young, tiny rose.
If you'd like to add this rose to a pin backing, or to a garment, you may find the bottom is too pointy. Cut out a circle of scrap fabric. Using a pair of good scissors, cut the point off and use hot glue to attach the now flat bottom to the circle of fabric. This bottom circle can now be used as a base for attaching the rose to projects.
Side Project:
You can also pre- pinch your petals, by adding a dot of glue at the very end and pinching it together. Create layers for a flatter flower by gluing four petals together at the very point, the gluing more petals pressing into the center gluing point. Then add the cylindrical petal at the last, cutting or folding it in such a way to make it smaller.
In the picture below, I've rolled the cylinder then cut it in half before folding over the top and pinching the entire thing into a dab of glue at the center to cover where each petal was glued in.
Please ignore the random glob of hot glue in the middle of the flower.
This method is far more difficult for me for some reason.
I recommend the rose pattern as the easier one to follow.
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