Saturday, March 12, 2022

Flower clips from leis

My daughter and her team are participating in a Hawaiian themed meet.  One parent purchased leis for everyone and had some extras.  I offered to make flower hair clips out of the extras.  

I had followed a tutorial in the past for making hair clips.  They used different sized flowers, pulled apart and then hot glued together.  To cover the center hole, a coordinating gemstone was stuck on.  




When I received the leis, it was clear I would need to use a different technique.  These leis have beautiful flowers and they're quite big.  I wasn't able to get a 3D effect layering them.  I decided to make two sets of layers and then fold them together.  I liked the look of them, but it didn't seem like hot glue was going to be the best medium for these.




I created two sets of 4 flowers layered and slightly off-set.












I then put the two sets together and sewed the folded edge together. 




The final step was to sew a metal hair clip to the flower.





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