Learn how to make DIY felt roses using this fast, easy rose flower tutorial with step-by-step photos. It's a simple, quick craft; you can make a rose in less than a minute or two!
DIY roses can be made with lots of different materials, like this burlap rosette or satin ribbon rosette.
Today, we are going to use felt fabric to make several types of DIY felt roses. They are beautiful, simple, and fun to make, and are great additions to DIY felt mums and felt petal flowers.
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Why You'll Love This Craft
- Felt flowers are easy and fun to make. Felt is simple to work with, and you can make several types of flowers including these felt roses, as well as petal flowers made with felt, and felt mums!
- The process of making a rose is simple. Once you master it, you can make different varieties like this felt version, a burlap rose, or a fabric rose.
Craft Supplies You'll Need
- Felt - You can use any type of felt from the cheap craft store varieties to higher-end wool versions. All that matters is that it's pliable enough to roll or fold into shape to make a flower.
- Circular Object to Trace - I used the circular top of a small basket, but you can use a bowl or any other circular object. Or you can draw a circle free-hand too.
- Disappearing Ink Fabric Marker - This helps your marks not be visible on the finished flower.
- Scissors and Hot Glue Gun
How to Make Felt Rose Flowers
Step 1. Trace a circle onto the felt with a disappearing ink marker.
Cut out the circle.
Step 2. Cut the felt circle into a wavy spiral shape, from the outside into the center.
Step 3. Beginning with the center of the spiral, roll the felt into a rosette shape, hot gluing to secure it as you go.
Step 4. Add more glue, and continue to roll the felt spiral all the way up into a rose shape.
Secure the end of the spiral to the underside of the rose.
Step 5. To add a mum center to your felt rose, first use the mini felt mum tutorial to make a small mum flower.
Step 6. Begin gluing the center of the felt spiral to the bottom of the small mum.
Step 7. Glue the spiral of felt around the outside of the rose, rolling it up as you go.
Step 8. Glue the end of the felt spiral to the bottom when you're done rolling, and the felt rose with a mum center is finished!
Common Questions
You can use any type of felt to make these easy roses. You can use cheap craft felt or high-end wool felt, as long as it's pliable enough to be rolled and manipulated into flower shapes! The most important is to find the colors you'd like your felt flowers to be!
Felt roses, as well as felt mums or felt petal flowers, are perfect to use in gift wrap as embellishments. You can also glue them to headbands or barrettes to use as hair accessories, and you can make other home decor with them like flower ornaments or garlands.
You can make faux flowers out of so many types of materials! We have made flowers out of toilet paper tubes, as well as burlap ribbon rosettes, book page petal flowers, and even roses made with shop towels from the dollar store!
Felt rose flowers are fun and easy to make.
You can experiment with different felt colors, methods, and techniques to create beautiful variations of these felt roses!
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How to Make DIY Felt Rose Flowers
Materials
- Felt
- Circular Object to Trace
- Disappearing Ink Fabric Marker
- Scissors
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue
Instructions
- Trace a circle onto the felt with a disappearing ink marker.Cut out the circle.
- Cut the felt circle into a wavy spiral shape, from the outside into the center.
- Beginning with the center of the spiral, roll the felt into a rosette shape, hot gluing to secure it as you go.
- Add more glue, and continue to roll the felt spiral all the way up into a rose shape.Secure the end of the spiral to the underside of the rose.
- To add a mum center to your felt rose, first use the mini felt mum tutorial to make a small mum flower.
- Begin gluing the center of the felt spiral to the bottom of the small mum.
- Glue the spiral of felt around the outside of the rose, rolling it up as you go.
- Glue the end of the felt spiral to the bottom when you're done rolling, and the felt rose with a mum center is finished!
Notes
- You can use any type of felt for these felt roses. Cheap craft felt all the way up to high-end wool felt will work as long as it's pliable enough to roll and glue into rosette shapes.
- These DIY felt rose flowers look lovely as a part of gift wrap and can be glued onto headbands, barrettes, or even made into earrings or rings.
- If you don't have felt, you can make roses using fabric, ribbon, or paper!
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