Felt flowers are simple to make and they make a great accessory! You can glue a hair clip or ponytail holder to the back, or sew or clip them onto a headband. Very cute for little girls and you can make a variety of colors to match different outfits. Of course I made these with my baby girl in mind. I hope that she has some hair when she is born!
For this project I used 9×12 basic felt sheets found at most craft stores. I purchased mine at Michaels. You will need your glue gun, a pair of scissors and beed or button for the middle if you wish. I used small glass pearl beads but only because I couldn’t find pearl buttons when I was t the craft store.
Step 1: Cut a square out of your felt. My square is about 3.5×3.5. Larger squares make larger flowers, smaller squares make smaller flowers.
Step 2-3: Cut a scalloped spiral into your square. Don’t worry about perfecting your scalloped edge. You can alway go back and trim the petals later.
Step 4: Starting from the center, roll up the spiral scallop. At this point you can either glue as you go or wait until the end to hot glue the layers and bottom together. You don’t need to go crazy with the glue gun. Just enough dabs here and there to hold it together so it doesn’t unravel.
Step 5: After you have glued your flower, feel free to trim petals or awkward pieces that are sticking out the back.
Step 6. Glue or sew a pearl bead or button in the middle.
Now you can add a small hair clip to the back (or elastic ponytail holder, headband, ribbon, clip and more!)
I had a couple small alligator hair clips lying around (similar to THIS one). I hot glued the flower to the the top of the clip and then cut a small strip of felt and hot glued it over the inside top of the clip and back onto the flower for a secure hold.
Carolyn says
Those are super-cute and look easy to make. Thanks so much for the tutorial. 🙂
Nina-hobbysite says
Great idea!
WIEN-ART says
Brilliant!
Greetings, Corine.
Emma Made says
I love working with felt; no hemming required! x
Horváth Emerencia says
Thanks so much for the tutorial 🙂
Tara @ Suburble says
Gorgeous! I love this tutorial! (I also love how perfect your scalloped spiral is – mine would be a teensy bit less-perfect-than-that!) Pinning! 🙂
Rhondda Mol says
Those look great Sarah. Thank you!
I think I may need to switch to a glue gun – I am using fabric glue with my felt embellishments (for crochet projects) and they just keep falling apart!! I'm super new to felt…
Rhondda
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Natalie says
Really informative post.
Suzanne says
Just found your Pintrest page and am blown away by your crafts, Did you really make all the pins on the pages. You are very talented. I am trying to start crocheting again after many years and your patterns made me wan t to start. thanks again for sharing them.