Easier than it looks… This one started to throw me for a loop, but I figured out a way to do it using tweezers a lot more than the video did, and I got a better and faster result. Merry Craft is amazingly nimble-fingered, but I work with ten stunted sausages at the best of…
Easy and Effective This one was nice and easy and it looks beautiful to boot! It will need to be on a stiff background though, because the petals are not attached to each other except at the very tips, and it does flip around. Perhaps giving it a firm felt circle at the back might…
Shine Like a Star… This one is quite bright! It must have been the lights in the studio. I have made flowers in this colour before, but for some reason this is making me want to reach for the sunglasses! Will Merry Craft ever run out of ideas? This is another one that is quite…
Many Loops! This one really threw me for a loop! This is one of the flowers that are made by stringing individual petals onto the thread and cinching it closed. When I first tried it, I used the wrong end of each petal and it just wasn’t working… I looked more carefully at the video…
Still enjoying the Journey Here’s another Floral Friday! Thanks go yet again to Merry Craft for this fantastic YouTube tutorial. This beautiful flower is made of 2.5cm ribbon, and you’ll need a button or a few beads for the centre. I like the end result of this one. It’s fairly simple, but the result is…
Before the beads… Thanks again go to Merry Craft for this Floral Friday offering. I love the flowers that have more folds in the petals. It really brings out the beauty of the ribbon and also makes a sturdier result. This has to be my favourite to date! My pearl shank buttons are still in…
Different Buttons are ok actually… I needed to use regular two-holed buttons because I lost my shank buttons, but with a design like this, it is actually better to be able to hide the very middle of the flower, so I guess losing the buttons wasn’t such a curse after all! It does mean that…
Who’s got the button? I bought a large pack of pearly shank buttons to use as flower centers. As you can see, this isn’t one of them. I can’t find it!! This is a frequent crafty problem that I have, and I’ve heard it spoken about a lot too… you lose something you need for…
Another easy one! YouTube suggested this one to me, but instead of putting it into my list of flowers to make, I decided to make it right away. This one is a double-layered one. The video said the ribbon segments were to be 4cm x 8cm, but I only had 2.5cm or 5cm ribbon to…
Intermediate! This one was my first slightly more difficult one. I love the result and the challenge, so I can’t wait to do even more! It uses 2.5cm ribbon and the usual other supplies. The hardest part of this really was sewing the petals together. In the end, after trying many things, I sewed them…
