2 Easy Ways of Making a Felt Flower (Roses) + Free Template
Felt flowers are beautiful, right? In this tutorial, we will show you 2 different techniques of making felt flowers from scratch. In both cases, we will make felt roses. Let’s learn how to make a felt flower with or without using glue.
Felt flower is one of the first things that come into mind when we think of felt craft. These are easy to make and make adorable gifts for many occasions. We wanted to start with an easy-to-follow felt flower tutorial, so we chose roses. Learn how to make felt rose flowers in our today’s tutorial.
Another reason behind choosing a felt rose is that among all the flower patterns, felt roses are all-time popular and admired all over the globe. Besides, you can use or reuse these felt roses for many other crafts.
We will show you 2 different techniques for the felt roses, the final craft looks the same for both techniques though.
Time and Cost of the Felt Flowers Project
To make a rose pattern, you’ll need around 15 minutes or more if it’s your first attempt. But, once the patterns are prepared, this craft does not take much time. As for the total cost of this craft, you will need to purchase felt fabrics and a hot glue gun or needle and thread.
A set of 50 felt fabrics sheets costs around $30 and you can craft up to 200 felt-fabric roses with them. A hot glue gun is around $5 and a set of 50 glue sticks won’t cost more than $5.
On average, a felt rose pattern would cost less than a dollar and you can keep the rest of the supplies for future craft projects.
Things You’ll Need
Materials
- Felt Fabric – light or medium-light
- Thread
Tools
- Pencil or Marker
- Hot Glue Gun
- Needle
- Scissors
You will need a felt flower template to make this craft. So we’ve added an easy-to-follow, printable pattern that you can download and cut out. As we said, we will be making rose flowers, so the template is actually a felt rose petal template. Just scroll to the bottom (below the video tutorial) and download the felt flower petal template.
How to Make a Felt Flower (Rose)
Technique 1: How to Make Felt Rose without Glue
Step 1: Prepare Round Shapes
We’re using the smallest round shape from our template. Trace and cut out at least 9 round shapes from the selected felt fabric.
Step 2: Prepare Half Circle Cutouts
Cut all the round felt cutouts into half. You’ll have a total of 18 half circles now. Each of the half circles are the rose petals for our craft.
Step 3: Stitch Half Circle Cutouts
We’re starting with the sewed felt rose pattern first. Prepare needle and thread. Place 2 to 4 petal cutouts together by overlapping half with the next one. See the picture of this step to be clear. Simply work a running stitch along the bottom (straight side) side of the overlapped petal patterns.
Step 4: Complete the Petal Chain
One by one add and stitch all 18 rose petal cutouts using the same strand of thread. After stitching the last petal cutout, do not cut off the thread or take out the needle, keep them as they are.
Step 5: Start Coiling
Hold the closed end of the attached petals (or simply, start from the first petal). Neatly coil the first petal and continue to coil the next ones.
Step 6: Complete the Coiling
Coil the entire attached petal chain. Keep the coiling neat and even. Now, we have the rose pattern.
Step 7: Stitch the Bottom Side
After reaching the end of the petal chain, flip the rose pattern to its bottom side but do not let go of the coiled petals, hold them firmly. Use the attached needle and thread to stitch the bottom side of the rose pattern criss-cross wise to secure the coiled pattern.
Step 8: Secure and Cut Off Extra Thread
We worked a criss-cross stitch 3 times, covering the whole bottom part, to make sure that the coiled pattern is nice and secured. Once you’re done stitching the bottom side of the felt rose, you can cut off extra thread if required. This was the sewed rose pattern. Check out the next technique for the no-sew rose pattern.
Technique 2: How to Make Felt Rose with Glue
Step 1: Prepare Round Shapes
Trace and cut out rose petals as we did for our previous technique. We’re using 9 round shapes for this technique as well.
Step 2: Prepare Half Circle Cutouts
Cut all the round felt cutouts into half.
Step 3: Attaching the Petals
Prepare the hot glue gun. Take 2 petal cutouts and join them together halfway through, Attach the next petal with the 2nd one halfway through again. Similarly, attach every next petal by overlapping half of the previous petal.
Step 4: Complete the Petal Chain
Keep attaching the petal cutouts one by one. Make sure to keep the petals aligned along the bottom side (the straight side) while atatching them.
Step 5: Start Coiling
You can start coiling the no-sew petal chain from either end, it won’t make a difference. Keep the coiling nice and even.
Step 6: Complete the Coiling
After reaching the last petal of the petal chain, apply a drop of glue and attach the last petal with the coiled pattern. No need to secure the bottom side of the rose for the no-sew rose pattern. If you’re looking for a quick craft, you can go for the no-sew technique, and in case you don’t have craft glue or hot glue gun, you can definitely try the sewed pattern.
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Felt Flower Template
Download and print out our Felt Rose Petal Template. The template includes 5 different sizes, you can select any size you want. You will need to use only 1 size for each rose pattern. Simply cut out the round shape from the printed template.
DIY Felt Flowers: Tips for Beginners to Avoid Common Mistakes
Here are some quick crafty tips if you’re having difficulty making the felt rose flowers.
- Use light or medium-light felt fabrics for this craft.
- Trace and cut the circles and half-circles neatly.
- keep the straight sides of the petals aligned when attaching them.
- Start with nice and tight coiling.
- Use your fingertips to spread open the petals from the top after completing the felt rose pattern.
If you are looking for more felt crafts, you may check out our following tutorials. Hope you’ll like them.
- DIY Felt Christmas Tree
- Easy to Make Felt Coasters
- DIY Felt Llama Plush
- DIY Cute Felt Owl Plush
- DIY Felt Bunny Tutorial
- Cross Stitched Felt Heart
Felt crafts are very therapeutic and fun as well. We really hope that you will enjoy watching and making the felt roses. We would love to see your version of the craft if you do craft them with the help of our tutorial. Don’t forget to share a picture with us or tag us on Facebook or Instagram (use #thecraftaholicwitch).
Happy Crafting!
