After making some wool daffodils last week, I decided it would be fun to also make some tulips. My felted wool wasn’t quite stiff enough for making the tulips so I ended up making the tulips with good quality felt fabric.
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Making Felt Tulips:
You can make the tulips from a good quality felt or felted wool that is not floppy so the tulips will hold their shape. I like making flowers from wool, but ended up using felt for this project. You will need green felt for the leaves, yellow felt, and felt in the color you would like the tulips to be.
Using this free pattern, cut two sets of flower petals and two leaves for each tulip. You will also need green floral tape and heavy duty wooden skewers. The skewers I am using are 3/16″ in diameter with a point at only one end.
Steam press the leaves in half lengthwise – only pressing about 2/3 of the way up each leaf. Be sure to use a pressing cloth so you don’t scorch the felt!
Use an awl to poke a hole in the middle of each set of flower petals.
Slide one group of flower petals onto the wooden skewer about 3/4″ down onto the pointed end of the skewer. Then slide the second set of petals onto the skewer. Arrange the sets so the petals alternate.
Cut a one inch square piece of light yellow felt and cut very narrow slits along one side to make fringe. Use hot glue to attach the yellow fringe to the wooden skewer above the flower petals. Apply glue to the uncut side of the square and then wrap that around the skewer.
Glue the top layer of tulip petals together along the edges, overlapping them to glue.
To glue the second layer of petals, put a line of glue down the middle of each petal and glue the petal to the petals on the top layer. Pull it snug so there is no looseness at the bottom. Finally, glue the sides of these petals to each other.
Wrap the stick with floral tape – you only have to put glue at the beginning. When you get to where the leaf should go, stop wrapping and apply a little glue to the floral tape to hold things in place while you add a leaf.
Apply glue to the inside of the leaf about half way up the leaf and wrap it around the stick. Wrap the floral tape around the bottom of the leaf.
Repeat this process for the second leaf putting it on the opposite side of the stick. Finish wrapping the stick with the floral tape and secure with glue.
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