{tissue paper flowers: tutorial}

Hullo, friends!

 

Today I was working on wrapping a birthday gift for a friend--which as a side note, I am quite terrible at. 

I can not do any sort of fancy wrapping--not even just plain wrapping--instead it always looks like I got something and just wrapped and taped wherever I liked...which is pretty much what I do--but while 'wrapping' today, I was messing with some little strips of tissue paper I had left and made some little flowery-things.  So I thought I'd make a tutorial to share, just for fun :)

 

 

They're amazing aren't they? :P  Before I even try to go any further with this post, though, let's talk about my nails:



 

I know. They totally rock. For those who don't know, they are Lord of the Rings nails--see it?! It's the inscription that was on The One Ring! I'll do a tutorial on that sometime :)

 

Ok, back to flowers. 

 

1.  First up, you need a strip of tissue paper--it can be as long or short as you like. 

 

2.  Crumple up the end into a little ball

 

3.  Now start to loosely twist the tissue paper, crumpling it a bit as well, and wrap it around the ball in a circle

 

4.  Keep twisting

 

5.  Once you run out of tissue paper, fold the end to the back of the flower

 

6.  Put some tape on the back to hold it in place

 

7.  Repeat with all of your scrap tissue paper

 

 

Aren't they cute?!  And it adds a nice touch to my rather crazy wrapping!

 

Much love to you all <3

{the frosted, flowery hat}

Hullo, friends!

I saw a very pretty hat on Etsy that inspired me to make this :)
I'm really excited about the look! I love the idea of making the flower the same color as the hat--it keeps it from being too over the top.
The hat is a granny stitch and the flower is lots of FPTCs. And in case you aren't aware, FPTC stands for front post triple crochet. And they are very, very tiring, and very, very hard on the wrist!
It's made with 100% natural wool, which was really interesting to work with.

What do you all think?
It just seems like a really special look to me. Sort of like a flower trimmed with snow.

Much love to you all <3