Making a jute flower with burlap and twine

Floral arrangements can be made from flowers made of fabric. The most popular are crafts in the ethno style, so burlap and jute are used as a basis. There are many options for creating different flowers. Using one of the schemes, you can create a real bouquet. Filigree is considered popular, which even a child can do.

How to make beautiful jute flowers with your own hands

Jute flowers can become a decoration for many interior items and clothes. Even a novice craftswoman can make them if she follows a detailed master class.

You need to prepare the following tools and materials:

• super glue;
• jute of different shades;
• scissors;
• safety pins;
• pencil;
• stationery file;
• cardboard;
• compass;
• needle;
• ruler.

Features of making chamomile from jute:

1. From cardboard, using a compass, form a circle of the required diameter. This parameter will determine the size of the bud. Cut out the detail.
2. Using a ruler and a simple pencil, draw a cardboard circle using the snowflake principle. You need to draw 6-8 diameters.
3. Stick safety pins along the edge of the cardboard circle along the diameter of the outlet.
4. At the point where the diameters intersect, use glue to glue the end of the jute.
5. Next, wrap each pin with thread, forming loops. You need to wrap each pin 2-3 times in turn.
6. After finishing the winding, cut the thread, leaving a tip 25-30 cm long.
7. Thread the end of the thread through the needle and stitch the loops through the middle of the flower. Grab the bundles of threads in equal quantities and pull the needle through the middle of this ring. Tighten the knot.
8. Glue the end of the thread to the middle. This will fix the complete product.
9. Carefully remove the needles and pull out the cardboard circle.

You can make such a flower and decorate the center of the product in an original way. Put a few coffee beans in the center, sprinkle some with cereal. You can also use other types of sprinkles. The main thing is that the material is natural.

A flower can be made from the same materials by forming a filigree from jute. A figured flower is printed on a sheet, which is then placed in a stationery file. After smearing the file with glue, use tweezers to lay the twine along the outline of the drawing. Additionally, all connections and intersections of threads must be additionally glued.

How to Make Burlap Flowers

It turns out that burlap can be used to make wonderful flowers that are as close to the original as possible in appearance. To bring the idea to life, you need to learn how to make flowers with a beautiful bud from burlap. The simplest option will be roses from this material. Even a novice craftswoman can make a bud.

It is advisable to first prepare the tools and materials:

• burlap;
• scissors;
• needle and thread;
• ruler;
• chalk;
• 3 beads.

Algorithm on how to make flowers from burlap with your own hands step by step:

1. From the burlap fabric, prepare a strip at least 15 cm long and 6-8 cm wide. First, measure out an even strip with a ruler and set the measurements with chalk.
2. Fold the burlap strip in half along its entire length. Secure the starting corner with a stitch. Next, prepare the bud shape.
3. Start twisting the middle of the future rose. Sew several turns of material at the bottom. The result will be a roll of 2-3 turns.
4. Next, make the petals. Gradually turn the ribbon and sew it to the formed center.

To make the petals look natural, you need to additionally fold each fold of the ribbon into a triangle.

After the bud is completely made, you need to sew 3 beads into the center of the composition. You can do without this decor. Straighten each petal so that the rosebud becomes more voluminous.

DIY Burlap and Twine Flowers

Three types of materials are ideally combined with each other, from which you can create a lush flower - burlap, twine and lace. For inexperienced craftswomen, a detailed master class is needed, where all the steps of the work will be described. More experienced needlewomen will be able to recreate the composition from the drawing.

To form a combined flower, you should prepare the following materials:

• sackcloth;
• leg-split;
• scissors;
• needle and thread;
• beads;
• cardboard and compass;
• glue gun;
• lace;
• ruler and pencil;
• tweezers;
• white cotton.

How to make flowers from burlap and twine with your own hands for decoration:

1. Using a compass, make a small circle out of cardboard. The detail will become the base of the flower so that the bud holds its shape and does not deform during the work.
2. Cut a circle out of white cotton, the diameter of which will be quite large. This will be the base skirt for the bud. Glue the part to the cardboard circle using a glue gun.
3. Prepare 2 strips of burlap of the same length and width. The width of each element should be 2.5-3.5 cm. Use tweezers to pull out the fibers so that the strip resembles a grid.
4. Glue the ends of one strip to the center of the cotton center to create a kind of loop. Fold the resulting loop in half and glue its center to the cotton circle again.
5. Repeat the same with the second strip. But this element must be glued perpendicularly to the first part. It is important to monitor the appearance of this part of the product - it must be the same.
6. Cut 10 strips of twine. Glue the strips on like burlap, dividing the corners between the parts like a bisector. As a result, the burlap and twine will form a kind of snowflake.
7. Cut a strip of lace of such a width that it does not overlap the cotton and other tiers of the composition. Sew the strip along the length with basting stitches. Pull the thread together, forming a kind of skirt.
8. Sew the lace "skirt" to the cotton base so as not to cover the loops of burlap and twine.
9. Separately make a small rose from burlap using the already known method. Sew beads into the center of the bud.
10. Glue the rose to the already prepared base. You can sew this element to a cotton base.
11. Use a needle to remove a few fibers from the cotton circle, creating a light fringe.

This combination flower can be used as a brooch, a hairpin, the basis of a textile bouquet for room decoration, or to decorate a bag.

How to make leaves

Flowers and leaves made of jute are in perfect harmony with each other in the overall composition. There are many options for making this element - it all depends on the type of plant and the technique of execution. Initially, it is worth choosing a pattern for the implementation of the idea, and then prepare the materials:

• Twine. You can choose a material of green or natural brown color.
• Prepare a template with the shape of a leaf and a stationery file as a basis for forming the product.
• Super glue or glue gun.
• A long wooden skewer and tweezers for adjusting the shapes.

Variants of schemes for making different types of leaves:

• The simplest way to make a leaf is to make a leaf by twisting jute in a figured manner with thread gluing. Moving from the center, twist the fiber, giving it the desired shape. Additionally, you can make veins from pieces of twine.

• Often use the filigree technique, you can choose any intricate pattern-shape and start gluing the parts, on a stationery file. The work is very painstaking, since the rope must be correctly positioned on the base, using tweezers.

• By placing pieces of rope on top of each other like a lattice. Each binding should be coated with glue. Cut out the shape and glue the outline with rope. This option will look like the leaflet was made of burlap.

The idea of ​​creating plant compositions from twine and burlap is a unique principle of forming beautiful products. In addition, such materials harmonize with any type of base. The flower will be an ideal addition or decoration of clothes, interior, accessories.