I made three simple layered flowers. They look like a hydrangea to me and are the simplest felt flower. To make them, you need about an 10" square of wool felt in the color you want your layered flower. You can find the felt at most hobby or quilt shops. You will also need a 6" square piece of green felt, a few wool balls (optional) and a hot glue gun. How simple is that?
To begin lay out the wool you want to make the flower with. Using a round lid (I used a spice lid) about 1 to 2" round, trace 6 to 8 circles. The larger the circle the bigger the flower will be, the smaller the circles, the smaller your flower will be. Pretty easy. If you want a wavy look to your petals, use your scissors to cut a wave around the outside of your circle. This is such a cute look when finished.
Cut out the circles and heat up your glue gun. A low temp gun is best for this project.
Squirt a small dot of glue in the inside center of your flower.
Fold the circle in half with the glue inside and hold until set. To speed up the process you can set it under a book or cup edge to press until set. This allows you to glue all the pieces pretty quickly and not have to wait for each piece to set before making another.
Oh, and don't mind my manicure...or lack of one. I am heading to get my nails done this weekend once our paint orders are out the door!
After the glue is set in your half-circles. Repeat this process again folding your half-circle into a fouth-circle. Basically squirt the glue and fold in half again. Let set.
Now you have your petals to make a layered flower!
Take two of your folded petals and glue together at the outside points.
Continue to add more petals around the first two to fill in and make your flower bloom! Let the hot glue dry. Fluff out the petals to get the look you want. Wool felt folds in mysterious ways and it is so fun to see how each flower it different.
Now it's time for the leaves. Trace out the shape and length of the leaf you want onto the green felt. Cut inside the tracing line to eliminate the tracing line. I cut two petals for each leaf. One large and one smaller. I love the layered curved look which I will show you how to do now.
The same as when you made your petals, you will squirt a dot of glue in the center bottom of your smaller leaf and fold in half. Hold in place until set.
Next, wrap the larger leaf around the base of the smaller leaf and with two squirts of glue on either side fold and glue the larger leaf to the smaller leaf base. Let dry.
Now you have a curved layered leaf that is ready to glue to the base or bottom of your flower. To figure where to glue, I set the flower down flat and look for where there is a gap that the leaf would fill in.
Glue your leaves to the base of your flower. If you are going to use your Layered Felt Flower as a hair piece or brooch, cut out an additional circle of felt to glue onto the base of the flower and leaved to cover up the bottom.

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