STRAW FLOWERS

To work with straws required tools and materials:
• Straw 
• Linen fabric purple or other colors. 
• Threads in tone cotton fabric. 
• Threads or light yellow ribbon. 
• Wire 2mm - 20 cm • Paper thin. 
• thin cardboard. 
• PVA glue. 
• Ammonia 10%. 
• Scissors . 
• Knife. 
• Capacity for bleaching straw.

Laying straw in a wide capacity grout 9 tablets gidroperita, 1h. Spoon ammonia, 0.5 l. water. We reserve the straw about 5-6 hours, it is necessary to mix the straw several times to make it uniformly bleached.

Above it is possible to pin down a small load. After bleaching straw washed, wrap in a plastic bag when going to work with it in the near future. For our flower take 8-10 tubes, cut with scissors along the fibers, expand hands. Next we take a hot iron to iron our stripes on the inside. You can straighten the strips with a knife. Next take tissue paper and sticking it on our strip. Strip tightly against the paper that was not visible gaps between the joints. Remove excess adhesive and laminating our rolling pin formation.

For our flower cardboard stencil do. superimpose it on our layer on the reverse side, draw 12 leaves, cut out. Next take a thin linen cloth, smear our leaf adhesive tightly against the fabric and so all 12 leaves. Next take the thread to match the fabric , smear with glue, pressed tightly against the edge of the leaf. give our leaflets dry, cut out the cardboard cutout circle With a diameter of 1 cm, glue it to 6 leaves, give dry.

 Next on the reverse side of our flower sticking the remaining 6 sheets, giving dry. Next pierce the core of our flower in two places, the wire tie. wrapped with thread or ribbon wire. Our flower is ready.

You can make some flowers, put in a bowl.

And you can make application on panels. Try it, and you certainly will, I'm sure.