How to make an Easy Felt Flower

This easy to follow felt flower tutorial will show you how to hand-sew felt flowers. And they are so pretty!

Make a felt flower to add color to the home no matter what season or to add as an embellishment to headbands, articles of clothing, bags, shoes and more.

These easy felt flowers can be used for wreaths, too!  Get creative and use this felt flower craft any way you like and in any color you choose.

Learn more about how to make a felt flower by watching our video or keep reading this post.

What are felt flowers?

Simple felt flowers can be made by sewing or gluing felt petals that have been arranged into flower shapes in a circle.  There are a variety of flowers that can be made with felt.

It is possible to make daisies, roses, poinsettias and more by just choosing a different petal shape.  The petal itself can be cut out in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Make pointy petals for the poinsettias and long, wide petals for roses. This felt flower tutorial shows how to make a simple daisy-shaped flower.

For these DIY felt flowers, no iron or hot glue will be used, so either type of felt can be used to make them.

WHAT YOU NEED to make easy felt flowers

• Five 4" square pieces of felt in one color
• 1 1/2" diameter circle piece of felt to match the five squares
• 1" X 3" piece of felt in a contrasting color
• Needle
• Thread
• Scissors

INSTRUCTIONS to make a felt flower

step 1: Cut fabric for the felt flower

Choose two different colors of felt for the felt flower. One color will be the main color of the flower petals.

There should be five 4" squares of the main color of felt.

Out of the same color of felt, cut one circle measuring 1 1/2 " in diameter.  This will be used for the felt flower backing.

Finally, out of the other color of felt, cut one 1" x 3" rectangle.  This will be the flower center.  Be sure it is a contrasting color.

STEP 2: fold the first felt flower petal

Begin with one of the pieces of the square felt. Fold it corner to corner to make a triangle. 

Do this a second time to make a smaller triangle for the DIY felt flower petal.

Hold the new smaller triangle with the long side facing up.  Take the point of the top layered triangle on the left side over to the right corner point.

Holding the two felt corner fabrics firmly in the right hand, take the last felt corner on the left side and fold it back to meet the points of the other felt corner fabrics on the right side.

The folded felt flower petal will be quite thick.

step 3: cut the corner and string the first felt flower petal

Where all of the folded corners meet, use scissors to cut a small piece off the tip of the right corner, through the thick folds of the felt. 

With the threaded needle which is knotted at the end, sew straight through the felt flower petal near the edge where the corner has been cut off.

String the folded triangle all of the way down to the knot at the end of the thread.

step 4: continue folding and stringing the felt flower petals

Lay the triangle on the thread down and prepare to fold and string the second flower petal.

Take another 4" square of felt and fold it as the first one was folded.  The video shows the folding very clearly.

Clip off the tip where all of the folded corners meet, and string near the cut edge onto the threaded needle.

Slide this felt flower petal down to meet the first petal that was strung on the thread.

Continue in this way until all five of the 4" squares have been folded, clipped and strung on the thread.

step 5: Pull and tie the felt flower petals together

Once all five of the petals have been strung on the thread, they need to be formed into a circular flower shape.

Take the thread out of the needle and pull the petals tightly into a circle by pulling on both ends of the thread. Tie the two ends of the thread together in a knot, making sure to keep the petals in a circle to form the flower.

Trim the ends of the thread close to the knot.

step 6: stitch the petals of the felt flower in place

Thread the needle again. The back of the flower is where the petals have a large circular opening in the center.

Beginning with one of the pieces of felt, put the needle through the felt at the bottom of the inside of the flower. 

Next, sew around the inside of the flower, catching all of the felt pieces of the petals together. Tie a knot to secure the petals together.

step 7: cut and add the center of the flower

Taking the rectangular piece of contrasting felt, fringe along one of the long sides, being careful not to cut all of the way through the rectangle.

To do this, use the scissors and make short cuts half way into the felt along one long side.

Next, starting at a short end of the fringed rectangle, roll it up into a tight cylinder.  Roll until the piece of felt is a cylinder with fringe at one end.

Take the flower in one hand with the right side up and push the cylinder into the center of the felt flower.  The solid portion of the cylinder should be pushed in all of the way through to the back.

The fringe of the cylinder should be facing out the front side of the felt flower.

Using the needle and thread, tack down the flower center to the flower petals by stitching all around the cylinder at the back of the flower.

step 8:  Attach the circle to the back of the felt flower

Find the back of the flower.  The front has the fringe center and folded petals.  On the back of the flower, sew the felt circle to bring all of the edges under it. The back will have a neat finish.

step 9: finger press the folds to form the flower petals

Place the felt flower on the work surface with the front side facing up.  Carefully push the fold in the center of each petal down and adjust the felt to make a full and open petal with sides.Shape the petals as desired.

step 10: tack the back of the felt flower

Once the petals are shaped to your liking, turn the flower over. Tack the opened edges of the back of the flower together. 

This will make a nice, neat finish on the back of the flower.

The beautiful easy felt flower is now ready to be used in a variety of ways.  Make several in different sizes and colors! So pretty!

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