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DIY Felt Poppy Flower
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How to Make a Felt Poppy

This felt poppy is so pretty and super simple to make! Make a bouquet or turn your felt poppy into a Remembrance Day or Veterans Day pin!
Active Time15 minutes
Total Time15 minutes
Yield: 1 felt poppy
Author: Debbie Chapman
Cost: $1

Equipment

Materials

Instructions

Step 1: Find what you need

  • Gather your supplies and materials.
    Felt-Poppies-Supplies

Step 2: Make the petals

  • Print our free felt poppy template (find the link in the materials list above!) and cut out the petal.
  • Place the petal pattern on a piece of red felt. Trace around it with chalk or a gel pen. Then cut out the petal.
    Repeat 4 more times so you have 5 petals in total.
    5 felt poppy petals

Step 3: Join the petals together

  • With a threaded needle, sew a running stitch along the flat edge of one petal.
    Running stitch on felt poppy petal
  • Pull the petal down to the end of the thread.
    Felt poppy petal at end of string
  • Add the remaining petals to the thread in the same way.
    5 felt poppy petals sewn on a string
  • Gather the petals together on the thread, pushing the bottoms toward each other.
    Gathered felt poppy petals on string
  • Pull the thread tight and tie the ends together in a double knot. This will gather the petals together into a flower shape.
    Cut off the excess thread near the knot.
    Thread ends pulled tight on felt poppy
  • Arrange each petal so that one side is over the previous petal and the other side is under the next petal.
    Arrange felt poppy petals

Step 4: Make the center of the flower

  • Take a black pipe cleaner and roll it around itself into a flat circle.
    Black pipe cleaner spiral
  • Add hot glue to the pipe cleaner spiral and press it to the center of your petals, covering the center gap.
    Black pipe cleaner glued to center of felt poppy

Step 5: Make the poppy's stem

  • Fold over the top 1/2 inch of a green pipe cleaner.
    Green pipe cleaner folded over in front of felt poppy
  • Add hot glue to the fold and press the glued pipe cleaner onto the back center of the poppy.
    Flued green pipe cleaner stem on back of felt poppy
  • Your felt poppy is complete!
    Single red felt poppy with green pipe cleaner stem

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Notes

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