Organza Flower Tutorial

Organza Flower Tutorial

This flower is quick and easy to make.

Materials:
- Organza fabric
- Either matching or contrasting seed beads
- Candle, matches
- Scissors, matching thread and needle
1. Cut off two stripes of organza 1 inch wide and 10 inches long each.

2. Then cut them into squares, the side of which will measure 1 inch. You will need 20 pieces.

3. The petals of the flower are roundish, so we should cut the corners of the squares to make them more or less round. As this is kinda free form flower, I don’t really try to make the petals all absolutely similar and perfectly round.

4. Now let’s light the candle and singe the edges of organza pieces.

5. All the petals are ready.

6. The way we assemble the petals will define the looks of the flower. Here is how to make it fast and easy: place all the petals on the table in two layers; the upper layer should be placed on the junction of the bottom layer petals, like on the photo.

7. Gather the petals on the thread just the way they lay on the table.

8. Now just pull all the petals towards the thread end where the knot is made.

9. Then fix that bundle of petals with the thread.

10. To finish the flower, sew as many beads as you want at the base of the flower between the petals.

11. The flower is ready. And it shines so nice in the sun!

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Repeat process to make five petals.

Stitch petals together with a needle and upholstery thread.


Pull the threads tight and tie off on the back of flower.



Supplies used in this flower: 1 1/2 inch Ribbon, 1 1/2 inch Metal Washer (hardware store), Woodburner (craft store), Needle and Upholstery thread

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Just want to share a pleasant news with all my friends. I have just published my next book at Amazon Kindle store. It is called "Fabric Flowers Tutorial", which actually deals with making ribbon flowers, roses in particular. Hope, it will have some success among the craft fans and Kindle owners.

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All the family together had been preparing all the stuff: we had made heart-shaped pizzas, heart-shaped potato sandwiches, and of course, heart-shaped cake. Here are the pics how it all looked:

Using cooking moulds of various sizes I had made (with the great help of my kids) potato, carrot, cheese, and sausage hearts. Carrot had gone into pizza; all the rest had been used to make tiny sandwiches. Having prebaked potato hearts in the oven I had layered them with mayonnaise, sausage hearts, simmered onion, ketchup, and cheese hearts. It is really easy, simple, but unusual and tasty.





All the baking (everything that is related to this term) had been done by my husband, ‘cos I hate flour and pastry making. I rather prefer meat and vegetables! So, pizza stuffing is my creation – nothing special: slightly fried small pork slices (the only food I did not risk to cut in the shape of hearts…), onion, heart-shaped carrots, sweet pepper, cheese, ketchup and mayonnaise. Everything is ordinary, except for the shape!






The heart-shaped cake had been prepared by my husband. He had used biscuit pastry (half of it had been added some cocoa) and whipped cream. Luckily, we had managed to find a heart-shaped pie dish among all the kitchen stuff my mom crammed our kitchen with. My hubby had covered the cake with chocolate – we all love it! The cake had been so tasty that I missed my chance to make a photo of it baked….





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