These Dahlia Flower Heads are made from shop bought felt, as I have no craft room at the moment I'm making small projects, these were really easy to make sat on my lap. I got the idea from:
Instructions to make a flower:
What you'll need:
- One 9x12 inch piece of wool felt
- Cutting mat
- Cutting knife
- Scissors
- Cotton (matching colour to felt)
- Needle
- Beads (if you like)
- Brooch pin or you can make into a headband (like on the website above)
What to do:
1) Cut the felt on the cutting mat into strips (along the long part of the piece), you need 3 different sizes, 2inch wide rows, 1,5 inch wide rows and 1 inch wide rows. Make the left over bit into a circle, this will form the base of the flower that the petals will be sewn onto.
2) Cut the rows into petals, the shape can be seen in the image above.
3) Start with the large petals and fold the bottom of the left and right side of the petal in to make a pinched petal shape, secure onto the circle base with a few stitches, continue adding large petals in this manner, with no gaps until an entire circle is made. Next move onto the mid sized petals doing the same. And then the small petals doing the same.
4) Embellish with beads and finish off by adding the brooch back or attach to a belt / headband.
Enjoy!
