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My first daisy! A step by step tutorial is coming soon :) Stayed tuned!

How to make a calle lily - an easy stocking flower tutorial

What I like about stocking flowers is the easy techniques, affordable materials and lots of space for one's imagination  and self-expression. Making a calla lily stocking flower was so rewarding - I just let my thoughts flow while my hands were busy making something of an aesthetic value (at least I hope so! :) ) 

 YOU'll NEED

So for a single calla lily flower you'll need purple stocking fabric for the spathe (or white, pink, red - it's up to you), tissue paper and yellow fabric for the spadix, stem wire, threads and green sticky tape.

Step 1

Take a tissue paper stripe and fold it twice. Then wrap it around the stem wire and fix with the thread. 

 Step 2

Wrap 3 layers of yellow stocking fabric around the spadix.

Step 3

Make a spathe by using a wire and purple stocking material. Check out the basic stocking flower tutorial to see how petals are made.  

Step 4

Thread the spathe to the spadix and shape it. 

Step 5

Wrap the green tape around the stem. 

Your calla lily stocking flower is all done!

 

Adding this blog to Bloglovin

Ok, now we're on Bloglovin', so feel free to follow us  on that platform as well:

Stocking flowers as they are on Bloglovin'

Thanks a lot for appreciating my blog and the flowers I make!

Blue theme (nylon flower composition)

Actually, the theme was purple, but my stubborn camera has turned it blue. fine, blue is in my favorite color after all (as you may have already guessed after looking though the nylon flowers on this blog :))

Red and orange nylon flowers

Red, orange, crimson, yellow, auburn and pink - these are the colors of many Indian flowers. IF you'd like to see my photo collection of these floral beauties, fell free to check out this post on another blog -

Flowers in India – red, orange, yellow, auburn, crimson, pink…

 That site of mine is dedicated to expat life and travel in India. But let's go back to our flowers. Although the Indian flowers are a great source of my inspiration, the floral composition I made yesterday was inspired by a different kind of orange, yellow and red - the colors of the Ukrainian autumn. The birdie and autumn fairy kindly helped me showcase the flowers. Enjoy :)

Blue and white stocking flower arrangement

I've made this bunch quite a while ago as a gift for one of my friends. To be honest, I even forgot about this composition, but recently I've been going through all the photos, and it was a nice surprise to find this photo. I think blue and white flowers along with pink stamens make a beautiful combination.

Stocking flowers as they are on Pinterest

A couple of weeks ago I've started a Pinterest account for Stocking flowers as they are - feel free to have a look or even to follow :) http://mystockingflowers.blogspot.in/

There are five basic boards so far :

My stocking flowers - here I save the photos of my own works.

Stocking flower materials - this is for everything one needs to create a nylon flower composition. 

Stocking flowers I like - here I gather the photos from other sites.

Flowers for inspiration -  this board is for the real flowers I like and find inspiring.

Nylon butterflies, dragonflies, angels etc. - this is for stocking creations other than flowers.

Stocking flower - St. Valentine gift idea

A fairy statue alone - generic and boring, a fairy statue with a stocking flower made by you - personalized and interesting :)

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself...

There were flowers: delphiniums, sweet peas, bunches of lilac; and carnations, masses of carnations. There were roses; there were irises. Ah yes—so she breathed in the earthy garden sweet smell as she stood talking to Miss Pym who owed her help, and thought her kind, for kind she had been years ago; very kind, but she looked older, this year, turning her head from side to side among the irises and roses and nodding tufts of lilac with her eyes half closed, snuffing in, after the street uproar, the delicious scent, the exquisite coolness. And then, opening her eyes, how fresh like frilled linen clean from a laundry laid in wicker trays the roses looked; and dark and prim the red carnations, holding their heads up; and all the sweet peas spreading in their bowls, tinged violet, snow white, pale—as if it were the evening and girls in muslin frocks came out to pick sweet peas and roses after the superb summer’s day, with its almost blue-black sky, its delphiniums, its carnations, its arum lilies was over; and it was the moment between six and seven when every flower—roses, carnations, irises, lilac— glows; white, violet, red, deep orange; every flower seems to burn by itself, softly, purely in the misty beds; and how she loved the grey-white moths spinning in and out, over the cherry pie, over the evening primroses!

 I'm enormously grateful to Virginia Woolf for this passage. Great to know there are people who can feel like this and describe their their feelings in simple yet powerful words. I used to compare this passage to an impressionistic painting, but now when I reread it once again, I realize it's much superior.

Floral inspiration

Getting inspired when looking  through the photos of my garden in Ukraine. I'm so glad I took them before coming to India - the flowers "here" and "there" awaken completely different feelings.