Tsumami Kanzashi Flower

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- Almost Nothing

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These are a bit fiddly to make but they are so cute. You can do almost anything with them from hair pins to rings to necklaces to jacket/hat pins.

And you can use up that bit of scrap fabric you can't bare to part with for that perfect project.

Well you just found it.

It looks like a long tutorial, but I've tried to get every step in there and as clear as possible.

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Before you begin you want to starch your fabric.

If you don't have access to this you can use fabric interfacing as well.
Pick out your scrap fabric.

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Cut out your squares. Any size really will do.

Mine were about 2 inch wide so I decided to use 6 petals, but you can use 5 or if you want use more just your petals won't be as open when you're finished.
fold in half

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Fold corner to the center
Same thing to the other side
Flip over, the two ends that are together are at the bottom of the diamond as we're looking at it now.
Imagine a line going down the middle if the diamond.

Fold the side to the middle.
Same thing to the other side.
Now fold it half length wise.
It should looke like this from the top....
And this on the bottom.
Taking your need and thread.( yes no thread in this photo)
Push the needle through the middle.

See the next photo for a more exact placement.
See how the needle catches the little triangles in middle?? That's what we want.
Stack em all together and get them on the needle and on to the thread.

I quatruple up on my thread to make it strong.
Now you want to cutt off the ends.

Closer picture next step.
About this much.. and do it to them all.
Squish them all togther.
And make a knot.
Nice and tight. Give it a few knots so it won't come undone. Then snip your threads.

Should look like this.
Push the centre piece out and flat to al the petals
should look like this now...
Sew on your center AND TA DA!!!! cute and sweet!!

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JessayahX

12 Jan 10:42

Oh I have seen how to do this somewhere in the internet..
But I´m looking forward to your How to..

I think they turned out really good.
It´s such a cute Idea ;)

<3 it ^^

Pumpkinniki

26 Jan 20:00

I don't know why mine didn't turn out right, but at least the back looks like something I can do something with. I'll be trying this again.

Frustrated Crafter

06 Feb 16:13

How COOL is THAT?!
I have so much scrap fabric! Now I know what to do with all of it!
Thanks so much!

Jackie D.

09 Feb 03:12

didn't really work for me,yet.
after fixing 3 mistakes i realized i had one petal extra :P
it looks really pretty,though!

Jackie D.

09 Feb 03:13

didn't really work for me,yet.
after fixing 3 mistakes i realized i had one petal extra :P
it looks really pretty,though!

lala k.

09 Feb 05:47

wait...how do you turn it into a hairpin...? do you stick a pin on the back of the flower? or is there a better way? heheh... shame...TT.TT

Flail of the flair

09 Feb 13:29

lala k. I've posted a creation picture to see the hairpin one.

Jackie- it takes a few tries, I gave up on my third try and didn't try again for months.. be determined. the out come it lovely once you nail it!

Gabriela C.

23 Feb 19:47

pretty interesting
nice how-to! ^^

Pre-heated-death

03 Mar 22:22

Thanks for the how-to! These are lovely!

Got it pretty good on the first try. I made it bigger so it would be easier to work with till I got the hang of it.
just one question... how do you keep the pedals open?! they keep folding back in.
Maybe I need more starch?

Flail of the flair

04 Mar 16:35

hey! i find just pushing out the center and like, bending the edge of the petal to encourage the shape.. if that makes sense, Some fabrics don't lend themselves to this project.
Totally try some more starch.
I would love to see a photo!

Twilight lover

08 Apr 16:58

CUTE!!! (Where did you get your chair?!?!)

Flail of the flair

08 Apr 18:15

My friend gave it to me, it's from Ikea.

KMOM14

11 May 14:39

Nice, easy to understand tutorial. Thanks for sharing it with us!

iirene

15 May 09:06

Used PVA glue at the end and left it to dry so the petals would stay apart- didn't have any starch or interfacing. Actually worked. :)
Had to sew through the top and bottom together too.
Otherwise the petals had a huge hole in the middle- where they all joined :]
its pretties :]
would like to post a picture, but idk how ;)
thnx for the tutorial =]