Hi, I'm Sophie and welcome to my world and this beautiful gorgeous young lady
standing next to me it's my friend Frankie Frankie
you look so cute in that headband Freda is going to freak out I have to tell you
the story of this headband okay so we were doing a Frida Kahlo party and we
needed something had the big sort of Mexican flower headband look and
so my sister Frieda who you've met who happens to be an amazing crafter and
sometimes appears on the show she came up with these I think adorable wrapped
felt roses and so today I'm going to teach you how to make one we're not
going to be quite so elaborate as your headdress because this is of course one
of my sister's creations but we're going to do a simplified version that looks
like this so for this project you're going to need assorted felt in all kinds
of bright and pretty colors scissors a glue gun a Sharpie pen quarter and
headband first thing that we are going to do is we're going to cut our felt
into one it's about one and a quarter little teeny bit more than an inch and
10 inches long so it's about an inch by ten inches we're going to cut those into
pretty strips like that and then I've also got some and these are more like a
half an inch and then they're about six inches long okay so we cut those ahead
of time just to have them and we've got all this extra pretty felt too that
we've got so to make a flower what we need to do is take our measurement here
and if you if you want to you can use a ruler instead but in this case we've got
this great mat and it just makes it so much easier so every inch right every
place you see one of these lines Frankie I want you to put a little dot so you're
going to make ten little dots on here or actually nine little dots so that you
can end up with ten little squares keep going that's great and if you would do
the same thing on this one here it is okay so that we've got two
because one of the sets we're actually going to cut into little squares so
we're just going to cut those into little one-inch squares that's great
excellent excellent okay so now you want to take your
scissors and just cut into one-inch squares like that so we only need about
five or six of them so once you've got that done then we're going to make the
actual flower shape and to do that we've discovered that if you take your felt
and you use a quarter this makes a great template and Frankie I'm going to let
you take over for here because you got enough squares there that's good and
what you're going to do is lay the quarter in between your inch marks right
and just trace up and over yep just like that up and over that's it and you can even
come down a little bit farther there you go and do the same thing there
yep very good it's perfect so then you end up with it looking
something like that I'm going to let Frankie just continue on with hers but
you can see how you end up there Frankie all the way up and over and then what
we're going to do is we're going to actually take our scissors and start
cutting it out from the end and you just cut along that line so that you cut all
that pattern out and it ends up looking like that now Frankie these little
squares that you cut we also want to turn these into petals like this now you
don't have to trace them out if you don't want to but you can of course if
you feeling like you know that would help but really all you're doing is
going up and like I'd like to use my thumb because I have a big thumb you're
just going up and over and making little petals like that and I've actually cut
us a bunch of them so you don't have to do
right now because I want to get you to the fun part which is putting these
together so here is your flower petals and here's your central flower what
you're going to do is we're going to take a little bit of glue and we're just
going to take this glue now we're going to start rolling it onto itself like
this alright okay so go ahead and you roll and I will put a little bee the
glue for you that's okay and you just keep on rolling this so she's going to
roll this whole piece of felt onto itself the one thing I have learned with
hot glue is you don't want to do the entire ten inch strip all at once
because what happens is your glue can tend to cool down before you've gotten
to the end so it's better to do it in maybe three to four inch squashes there
you go great correct you've got a pretty start to your rose so you can see that
now to make it even better yeah gotta add some add of exactly now this is
where you can go to town and I'm going to give you the glue gun and just let
you go happy so you've got a bunch of them here what I like to do is I'll show
you how I'd like to do the first remember how you and I when we've made
flowers before in the past we kind of go north south east west yeah well this
time we're going to just kind of basically go around so that's a little
different yeah exactly it's a little teeny bit different from what we've done
before but because of the nature of the fabric it works better to go in circles
than it does like with duct tape when we work with duct tape and stuff before you
know how you and I have always gone opposite sides well this you really kind
of word and work in one direction so I'm going to let you take over
there you go
I do that all the time so I'll let you add a few more okay okay there you go
well we were at this one so yeah maybe the little bit further this great so you
can add three you can add four you can add five you can add as many titles as
you would to fill it out the more petals you add the bigger it's going to get and
then once you get to a point that you're happy with remember we had that little
tiny one-inch piece of green yes we're going to wrap that around the bottom so
what do you think another one are you good you got it
now one of the things that's kind of fun is you can mix your colors up too you
don't always have to stick with one color great super okay okay so Frankie
what we're going to do is we're going to add this strip around the bottom but the
thing about it is instead of going like a pie we want to actually add it so that
some of our felt sticks down off the bottom so what I'm going to do is put a
little bead around here like that and let you put that on it I think I think
I'm more dangerous with the glue gun than letting you just do this by
yourself this is the trick okay that's a girl and watch your finger there and
let's just add a little teeny bit more here okay there you go
great and now we're just going to add a tiny tiny tiny bit here right and we'll
let that dry and then we're just going to snip that off yet you want to snip
off the extra so I've cut myself a little tiny circle here and this is how
we're going to attach it to a headband glue that looks great
so Frankie what we want to do is figure out where you want to put it on the head
another reason that we kept this extra here is so that we can actually kind of
just like in set it just like that so we instead it like that so we can glue it
nice and then we can actually wrap these little pieces and seal them off with
this little circle right exactly so where would you like to put that right
here okay so I'm going to let you do that I'm just going to put some glue
here and you go ahead and put it on and like I said when you push it down that
in sets it's a little bit good great and now we can take this little guy and just
basically lay them right in there and that will lock the whole thing in show
ya more MORE yeah so let's do that when you use that
one that's a little bigger just watch your fingers like excellent great now if
you wanted to at this point in time you could add some leaves if you wanted to
you could add another flower if you wanted to so here's a couple more
flowers I'll cut you some leaves and these are some fun these are just little
pieces that are rolled up together to make kind of like little buds you could
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