Blue Rose Corsage

Posted by Craftip (Nov 6, 2013)

With a detailed recipe.

Originally posted by MDILAD.

1.

Make some flower petals out from cotton satin fabric, by cutting on the bias.
Large x 5
Medium x 5
Small x 6

2.

Place those flower petals on paper, and then dye the tips of petals light yellow.

3.

Dye upper half of flower petals blue. Place blue dye so it has beautiful gradation.

4.

Dry them up for 1 or 2 days.

5.

Recurve the edge of each petal with your fingertips.

6.

Then, have an electric heater on the tips of large ones and medium ones so they gradually get rounder.

7.

Stick a wire through a styrol ball.

8.

Twist a wire.

9.

Bond a small petal so it rolls and hides the styrol ball.

10.

Another petal on the opposite side.

11.

Put another petal onto where (9) and (10) are layered.

12.

Another petal on the opposite side.

13.

Another petal onto where petals are layered.

14.

Continue the same process.Put next petals so as to hide a gap between petals.

15.

Checking to achieve nice balance.

16.

Wrap a stem tape around the wire.

17.

Finished.

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