Weddingbee Blog

Remember when I shared with all of you my first attempt at a hair flower? Well, clay was not the right material after I realized how dangerous my head was (I usually poke Mr. Poodle in the eyes with whatever I have in my hair).

So, fabric was a really tempting option. Miss Bear Cub and I wanted to try to make our own, so while I was visiting her (remember our BeeTV?) a few weeks a go, siii! We started playing with cute fabrics, pearls, feathers and beads.

This was our Monday morning project! Um, well… if you remember the amount of Pisco we had the night before (during our BeeTV broadcast), you can guess we were not in the best shape to craft! LOL. I did as much as I could, but I didn’t finish my flower. I left that cutie waiting for me while I researched for the beads and pearls I wanted for the center. And now finally, I’m done!!

{ My finished flower! }

Of course, as always, I wanted to share with all of you how I made mine, just in case you want to make your own.

This was my very first flower, so that means I’m not a flower expert. I try to follow all the instructions I found online, but in the end I just did it my own way and didn’t cut the shape of the flower out of the fabric (like I was supposed to do in Martha’s tutorial). I cut 2 different sizes of petals, starting with (approximately) 3″x2″ rectangles (for the big ones).

{ Not all of the petals are exactly the same size or shape,
I thought it would look more real that way }

After cutting all the petals, we lit a candle and sealed the fabric, just like Mrs. Piglet did in this tutorial.

{ Here you can see the finished shapes }

Once I had all of my petals ready, I stitched through one of the edges and attached the first layer of petals together.

{ Here you can see the petals sewn together. This was the bottom layer. }

I also cut tulle petals, but in this case I didn’t run the edges over the candle, because the tulle burns way faster. I tried several times but I ended up with ugly petals!

{ You can see the tulle petal layer on the left and the next white fabric layer of petals
attached on the right }

I ended up using 5 layers (of 6 to 8 petals each) of white fabric and 2 layers (of 6 petals each) of tulle for the flower.

{ I found some cute white feathers that I sewed to one of the sides}

{ I bought different green and purple beads to attach to the center of the flowers }

I played around with all the beads until I was completely happy with the result. I first tried to just sew them to the flower, but the small ones moved around too much so I ended up hot gluing them to the center. I grabed the beads one by one with tweezers and applied tiny amounts of hot glue to the beads. Then I placed them wherever I wanted them.

{ I used some lilac, purple, and clear purple beads, white feathers, and tulle }

I only have a small idea of how I want my hair that day - Big curls!! So I hope the flower looks better once my hair is all pretty

{ As usual, Curly couldn’t resist the camera - here we both are modeling my flower }

After I finished my flower, I decided to try and make flowers for my girls. I know my MOH wanted one for her hair and my little sister wanted one for her dress, so I started playing around again—this time with purple fabric and green beads.

{ I used some leftovers from one of my last projects }

{ This time I used different colors and sizes of green beads }

I still need to iron these flowers to shape the petals a little bit more, but I am going to do that once the flowers and dresses travel all the way to California, because otherwise, I’ll end up having to iron twice. I’ll use this small iron that I bought that on my first trip to the USA. It’s so small and handy.

I also made another one with a different center so they can have a variety to choose from.

I’ve notice that brides are going crazy over hair flowers these days! Did you jump on the hair flower bandwagon? Are you DIYing yours? What materials did you use?