Sunday, February 28, 2010

Kanzashi

Spring flowers!



I wanted to know how to make fabric flowers with no raw edges or close to it.
At first, I found nothing I really liked. Just felt flowers and rolled roses, but not really what I had in my mind.
Then I found Kanzashi.
The Japanese hair ornament, which is adorned in beautifully folded leaves and petals made of perfectly coordinated colored fabrics. There are rounded petals, pointed petals, delicate leaves and all hand fastened to a comb.
I found two photo tutorials:
Kurokami-kanzashi. deviantart.com
mookychick.com.
I grabbed some extra fabirc I had sitting around, and quickly folded and stitched.
I did not iron the fabric, like I should have and just quickly folded without properly pressing and cutting. However, I still like the way they came out and Just Think how nice yours will look when you do iron, cut and fold perfectly!!
My results so far.







I chose different fabrics just to get a feel for the folding . Terry cloth, felt, a soft cotton, and a shear eyelet fabric. The green leaves are fuzzy.

My favorite is the terry cloth flower. It's blue and all the way to the right. It makes me think of a cartoon. I made one with a stem, butI don't seem to have a picture of it. Well, I used a yellow flower pictured above and added the stem that fits a pen inside and it's got a leaf.

Super springfest over here!

Have fun

*winter

4 comments:

  1. How funny I made some of those very ones using some moda fat quarters. It's so time consuming!! I love it when the center is a covered button, I did a few and attached them to slim rubberbands to make cutesy pony holders, but found I just don't have the patience for it. I will send you some fabric, and you can make some for H and R.

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  2. They are very time consuming! And fell kinda like making button holes to me....no need to send fabric I have tons and tons! I'll send you some flowers do you want them on purses as a pen cover or just flowers? By the way did you get your package in the mail yet?

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  3. I LOVE THEM SORRY I HAVEN'T WROTE BUT I THINK I HAVE THINGS UNDER CONTROL NOW SO GREAT JOB
    LOVE YA

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  4. package received.. the kids would love purses... Hannah takes one to church almost every week. She would also really love a back pack with a pouch for Kit.

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Tell me about it and Have fun. *winter