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 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.
