ribbon roses

Oh my I am so sorry I didn't realise it was over a month since my last tutorial been so busy with this & that well it's a long time coming then lately I have been making my own ribbon roses and have had a lot of compliments about them so I thought I would show how to do them I found the idea in a papercraft inspiration mag but the instructions weren't very clear and those of you who have got to know me or getting to know me will know I am not the brightest bulb in the box lolbut I did mange to figure it out and the good thing about it is there is little or no sewing at all you can either put a couple of stitches through the ribbon at the end which I will show or add some glue so here we go

take a length of ribbon the size is up to you and so is the width I have done this rose with some wide ribbon and it looks just as good also organsa ribbon works really well

fold the length in half

then bring the top length down to form a right angle as in pic

then bring the botton length over this towards you

now the length at the side goes across to the other side

Like this

then you take the bottom pice and take up to top like above
keep doing this until you get to the end

so now you are left with 2 small amounts of ribbon unfolded take the 2 ends and let the folded length loose

still holding the 2 short ends take one of them in your other hand and start to pull

you will see it start to pucker up and take on the form of the rose as you go carry on til you get to the end and are happy with the rose

now take the 2 straight lenths and tie them in a single knot I have to use my teeth to help do this as you need to hold the rose as well as the ends but that is the hardest part

so now you have a small knot at the back of the rosenow this is the stage where you can either sew it or glue it in place I choose to sew as it really is only 2/3 stitches

take you needle and thread and go through the petal closest to the knot and then through the knot itself then take it back through the knot and then the petal

then go to the othetr side of the knot and do the samd with a stitch through the knot and petal then tie off now all you need to do is cut off the excess lengths

and that is how you make the roses

I do hope this helps and you can follow the instruction ok and have a go and let me know how you get on