Making stocking flowers is not difficult - it's a nice hobby for just anybody with a bit of patience and inspiration. And of course you'll need the materials to start with. Some of them you can find at home, like your old stockings for petals or wires for stems and branches. As for the stamens, leaves and green sticky tape, they can be easily obtained from a hobby store.
It won't take you long to make a pretty button-hole stocking flower which can be also used as an original addition to a valentine card or a gift wrapping accessory.
So, you'll need:
scissors;
thread;
stocking (nylon) fabric;
ordinary wires for stems and golden wires for petals;
a few stamens;
one leaf;
green sticky tape.
You can choose any color of the nylon fabric you like. There is no harm in choosing different colors for the petals of the same flower or for different flowers on one branch. It's up to you - feel free to unwind your imagination.
1. Let's cut the golden wire and form the petals. The more petals you will use for one stocking flower, the more sophisticated it will look.
2. Now let's wrap them with your stocking fabric and fix it with the thread. Make sure the fabric is tight - it doesn't look very attractive when it's loose and wrinkled.
3. Now, fold the stamens in half and fix it to the stem with threads.
4. Choose a few petals (ideally, three or four) and fix them to the stem with threads as well.
5. Take a few more petals and place them below the petals you've just fixed. Experiment with the shape of each petal by bending the wire - you might get the most unexpected and beautiful results.
6. Wrap the green sticky tape around the stem. Make sure it's tight. By the way, it's not necessary to stick only to the shades of green when choosing this tape. White tape, for example, looks original and very refreshing.
7. Choose a placement for the leaf and join to the stem with the sticky tape. Wrap the sticky tape around the second flower and join two nylon flowers together.
It's all done :)
