MUSLIN AND TULLE FLOWERS

I’ve been working on a fun Fall project that has been a huge creative outlet for me! Now I’m excited to share a part of it with you!

Last year, I made my first wreath ever as a part of an up-cycle project. It was fun and so pretty to look at.

I loved coming home and seeing it hanging on my front door. I feel like it gave our house a little piece of personality.

So this year, I decided I wanted to do a Fall wreath with burlap and muslin. As I was walking through Hobby Lobby to grab some muslin and burlap, I saw some cute flowers made from burlap and muslin. I have been wanting to make some flowers for fun, so I decided to try my hand at it and see if I wanted to include some pretty flowers.

I didn’t really look up any other tutorials before making them… I just kind of experimented! So I had a couple of funny looking flowers before I finally got the look that I wanted!

Here is what I did to get these adorable twisted muslin and tulle flowers:

Supplies:

Cardboard

Strip of Muslin ~10 to 14 inches

Strip of Tulle ~10 to 14 inches

Twine

Floral Wire

Glue Gun

Instructions:

1. Cut out a square piece of cardboard approximately 2×2 in.
2. Pick up 1 strip of muslin and 1 strip of tulle. Twist them tightly together and then roll the first inch or two really tight!
3. Place a dab of glue in the middle of your cardboard. You could also use felt, but the cardboard makes it super sturdy.
4. Put the center of your flower in your glue and hold it for a minute.
5. Add some twine really close to the center so that it sticks. Then twist your muslin, tulle and twine while coiling it around the center of your flower.
6. Once you have the flower wound to the size you would like, gently lift and glue to the cardboard.
7. Cut the cardboard down to size.
8. Glue all three materials down in the back.
9. Then you can glue a hair clip, floral wire, clothespin or whatever else you want to the back to make the flower functional!
10. Ta da! Be sure to admire your hard work!

I attached my flowers to my burlap wreath. You’ll be seeing that soon!

One of my flower experiments yielded these fun and pretty burlap flowers! They are beautiful for a table setting and super easy to make. Check them out….