How to Make Ribbon Flowers

Ribbon flowers are one of the easiest types of artificial handmade flowers. They are extremely easy to make, take very little time and look very attractive when bundled up. They are also great crafts activities for kids and beginners of all ages. There are many ways in which you can learn how to make ribbon flowers, depending on what you are making them for. Ribbon flowers are made so that they could be sewed to headbands, attached to clothes and accessories like bags or shoes, or stuck to floral wire and displayed as decorations. Thus, if you are ready to learn, we have some of the most interesting and easy ways to make ribbon flowers coming up for you in the paragraphs below.

How to Make Ribbon Flowers for Headbands

Headbands look very attractive when they have some sort of craft attached to them, flowers being the best options. Therefore, if you are looking for instructions on how to make ribbon flowers for hair accessories, here's an easy way to do the same. Find out from the materials required and directions for making silk flowers written below.

Materials Needed

• Colored Ribbon (thick or thin)
• Buttons (complementary colors)
• Floral tape (optional)
• Glue gun
• Scissors
• Needle and colored thread

Directions

• The type of ribbon flowers which we will learn to make for headbands could use any type of ribbon such as tulle, or any other fabric. You will need to cut the ribbon in many equal length stripes.
• If you want the petals of the flowers to be different colors, you can use two colored ribbons. Cut 8 pieces of the same ribbon, or 4 pieces of two colored ribbons, each 2 to 3 inches long and place them in such a manner, that the centers are overlapping, creating a concentric circle.
• Now, make a small stitch through this center, so that all the ribbon pieces are held together in one place and it is easier to fold the ribbons. Since you have 8 ribbon pieces, you will have 16 free ends which will later gather as the petals in the center.
• Gradually, make loops by bringing the first 8 free ends of the ribbon to the center (which is already stitched), and put a stitch in them. Then bring the remaining 8 free ends and do the same for them, so that all the 16 petals are held in the center creating the petals for the ribbon flower.
• Now, place the colored button in the center and stitch it up so that the shabby center of the flower looks neat and presentable. To add a unique touch to the flower, you could stitch two buttons, one large and the other small or different colors. You can then stitch these ribbon flowers to the headband and enjoy.

How to Make Ribbon Flowers for Accessories

Another very simple way of making ribbon flowers, is to prepare a rose with broader ribbons. These roses look very attractive when stitched to baby clothes, scrapbooks, bags, wallets, etc. When these roses are made, you can either make ruffles to them for better visual appeal or you could plainly stitch the ends of the ribbon to make flowers. If you are wondering how, here are the ribbon flower instructions for you.

Materials Needed

• Colored Satin or Tulle Ribbon
• Buttons could be optional (complementary colors)
• Glue gun
• Scissors
• Floral wire (optional)
• Needle and colored thread

Directions

• Use any length of ribbon to make a rose, and knot one end of this ribbon. Leave a free end after the knot, don't tie up the loose end for support for the rose. Thread the needle, and sow the needle into one edge of the ribbon.
• Keep sowing this edge of the ribbon to any desired length, so that you could get ruffles for the rose. After you have enough pleats or ruffles for the flower, you could start gathering these ruffles in the center of the flower (the knotted end).
• Since one edge of the ribbon is loose, the gathering takes place on the sowed end, making petals for the flower. You could either curl up the ruffles and then stitch them to the knot, or simply hold the gathered end and stitch it up together.
• After this, cut off the thread and knot it tightly so that the rose has a firm support. To make the flower look better, you could stitch tiny pearls or beads in the center, and cover up the knot.
• You can stitch these roses to handbags, on clothes, or tie them on the floral wire and make a bouquet out of them. They look very attractive, when the ribbons used are satin or tulle.

With these easy instructions on how to make ribbon flowers, hope you have learned to make these easy flowers for various accessories. They are great crafts activities, so prepare them and flaunt them around.