tutorial (requested)

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WHAT YOU'LL NEED
Atleast eight squares of fabric. Their size is completely up to you (and really how many squares you want to use), depending on how large you want your flowerpetals to be, and how many you want there to be. Also, a hotglue gun and scissors (sewing machine optional)



1) take one piece of cloth and lay it flat. Four corners. Take the bottom right corner and fold it so that it touches the top left. (it should be in the shape of a triangle now)



2)Now take the bottom left corner, and fold it to touch the top right. (it should look like one of those paper footballs now)



3) Turn the folded square over now until you have this part facing forward



4) This is the only difficult part to explain, and it's difficult only because it's hard to describe what to do, so this is the picture of what the next step will do (the pretty-much done petal). Take the back point and push it between the two folds, until it becomes the third and center fold.



5) Now this is your petal, and will be the process you use for every square of cloth. Turning it into an actual flower has varied steps. What I do is take a pin and pin the material just above where I plan to cut the scruffy bottom off, and then clip the bottom and the back (the back pokes out too far without clipping)This is the normal look of the petal from the back after I have clipped it down.



6) You may choose to sew each petal at it's pinned point for more stability, I usually do. For now lets just be sloppy and superglue everything together (you will still be glueing them together even if you sew each petal), so we're just skipping the sewing part which isn't neccessary). How you glue the petals will be how they are arranged and the look of the flower. This is just a demonstration with a few petals, but I usually use about six to eight petals. For hair ornament sized flowers, any more would be too bunched. Here I have superglued two petals together, across from each other. Be careful with the glue and only use it in the center, as you will be hiding that part with a button or whatever you wan thte center of your flower to be.



7) Fluff your petals out ( how you fluff them determines what shape they have and what sort of flower it will be seen as)



8) attach your other petals with superglue. I usually just dab some on the bottom of each petal, so that it catches all three folds and holds them together, then press each against the center.



9) superglue something over the center, a button or fakeflower fixtures - whatever have you.



10) do whatever you want! I like to buy fakeflower bunches from the dollar store, and cut off one branch, then superglue the flowers randomly into the premade bouquet, and attach to chopsticks/hairsticks for something pretty to put in my hair :)

I just began doing these yesterday, and these are my first two products!

See how easy? and we will all no-doubt get better with time and practice :) let me know if this was confusing and I'll try to explain it better, my first tutorial ever! I;d love to see what you make :)!