How to Make a Yarn Flower
Learn how to use a simple piece of cardboard to make an adorable flower from yarn! This fun yarn craft is perfect for spring and summer, and you can make them in all your favourite colours.
Yield: 1 yarn flower
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- Cardboard
- Yarn (flower colour)
- Pearl bead(s) (10mm)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Cut cardboard pieces
- Grab a piece of scrap cardboard and measure 2 cm (about 3/4 inch) in from the side. Make a mark. Repeat, marking every 2 cm, going up to 10 cm.
- Extend each mark into a line, going up 4 cm (about 1-1/2 inches). Then cut out the strips of cardboard.
- You should now have 5 pieces of cardboard measuring 2 x 4 cm.
Step 3: Make a flower petal
- Choose a colour of yarn for the flower petals. Wrap it around the long edge of the cardboard about 14 times.Try to keep the wraps to the middle of the cardboard.
- Cut the yarn, leaving about 8 inches extra.
- Thread a needle with the yarn tail. Bring the needle up under the wrapped yarn, pulling it up until there's just a loop left.Bring the needle back down through the loop, creating a knot. Pull the yarn tight, securing the knot around the bundle at the right side.
- Now repeat the same steps, but from the opposite direction.In other words, bring the needle down behind the yarn this time, and thread the yarn up through the loop before pulling the knot tight to secure it.
- Repeat the last 2 steps on the other side.
- Bring the yarn under the bundle to the other side again and secure it with a knot.
Step 4: Make the rest of the petals
- Repeat step 3 four more times, for a total of 5 petals.
- Remove the petals from the cardboard. They should slide off easily, but you may need to rip the cardboard to remove them -- it just depends on the type of cardboard and how tightly you wrapped them.
Step 5: Tie the flower together
- Cut an 8 inch piece of yarn and thread it onto your needle.
- Insert the needle through the center of a petal. Make sure you don't catch any of the yarn from the "good side" of the petal (the smooth side, without the knots).
- Thread the rest of the petals onto the yarn, making sure the tails face in the same direction.
- Remove the needle and tie the 2 ends into a knot, pulling tight to bring the petals together. Secure with a double knot.
- Make sure all the tails are at the back of the flower (the side with the knots).
- Tie each petal to the one next it, creating a more secure flower.
Step 6: Add the flower center
- Cut off most of the tails, leaving only the longest one (likely the one from tying the flower together).
- Thread this tail on a needle again and bring it to the front of the flower.
- Thread a pearl bead onto the yarn.
- Sew into the edge of the yarn across from where the tail starts, bringing the yarn to the back of the flower again.
- Pull the tail through all the way so the bead sits nicely in the center of the flower.
- Tie the tail through one of the other knots to secure it, and cut off the excess yarn.
- Your yarn flower craft is complete!
Notes
Looking for more fun ways to use yarn? Here's a few of our favourites:
Spring Sewing Cards for Kids
Pom Pom Bees
Yarn Pen "Painting" Hack