Kanzashi In Bloom - the book that shows how to fold three styles of petals
and much more! ** Clover Kanzashi Flower Makers are
here.
** Fat
quarter packs (including the new white-on-white ones!) can be seen
here.
** Ideas for flower centers - the new manufactured glass opals, rhinestone
chain, buttons, and the Melissa Francis brooches are
here.
**
Model Magic ** Seed beads, Czech firepolish, and about every
other kind of bead you could want are
here.
There are no limits to what you can use to make cool flower centers, so let your
imagination run free!
I made a lot of flowers in the last week!
Stacked blooms are beautiful, especially so when using white-on-white and pale
fabrics.
The one we demoed in the video. Jess has her eye on this one.
More white on white.
I made the bottom flower a couple of week ago when I was figuring out the
Barbie's petal variation. It sat and sat till I made this little center.
It was worth the wait!
A Melissa Francis brooch stacked on top of a shell button makes a wonderful
flower center.
Another stacked button center on the left. On the right is one of the new
manufactured glass opals with beads around it. I used the same technique
as in the video, just with the opal in the center instead of a small bead.
Here's the one from the video.
Model Magic centers. The one on the right I showed in the video. The
other is the center I made while we were filming. That flower center
combines the Model Magic center with the beaded circle/tiny seed beads as grout
techniques.
A closer look at that center...
More stacked blooms. These flowers were made with the Fig Tree Fresh
Cottons fabric. You'll find them in the Kanzashi fat quarter packs numbers
8, 9, and 10. The flower on the left has a center made from one of the
opals and something brand new - Preciosa rhinestone chain. I wheedled a
sample of the chain from a salesman and couldn't believe how fabulously it
combined with the opals to make dramatic flower centers.
A close up view of that technique for the centers, this time with another color
of opal, but just as fab!
