Craft Flower Power

Spring has hit and we’re all about florals.

After the winter months the first signs of blossom are extremely welcome and with the warmer weather, the tulips are opening and shortly our gardens will be an abundance of colour.

If you love crafts and often buy flowers for your home, but fancy something a bit more permanent, then making your own could be a very satisfying project. Anything from a floral display to a brooch or hairpin can be a lovely way of personalizing your favourite Wool Overs cardigan or giving as gifts to friends & family.

Classic Crochet Rose

Skills: Crochet
Difficulty: Basic

These roses are very elegant and would look lovely as a simple brooch to complement a cardigan, or you may know a little girl who would like one attached to a hairband or hairpin.

Images & pattern: Hille Knits

Spring Daffodil Wreath

Skills: Paper Craft
Difficulty: Medium

We tend to only think of wreaths at Christmas, but this daffodil wreath is a lovely way of celebrating the Easter season or the start of Spring. The House that Lars Built has several floral paper craft tutorials on their blog, but this one is one of our favourites.

Start with the simple flower tutorial and then add to the wreath to create a simple and seasonal display. You could always increase the size of the cutting templates and make it much bigger for a super sized display on a wall.

Images & tutorial: The House that Lars Built

Fabric Succulent Pot

Skills: Sewing
Difficulty: Hard (only for the committed)

Anybody that is interested in crafts would have heard of Mollie Makes, and this is a lovely idea for somebody who enjoys a longer project. Their sewing tutorial for this succulent display is a lovely way of giving your home a touch of craft magic – and you won’t need to water it! If you wanted a quicker project, you could just make the rosette leaves and stem, to create a smaller decorative embellishment to a jumper.

Images & tutorial: Mollie Makes

Cute Crochet Flowers

Skills: Crochet
Difficulty: Basic

These cute flowers are very versatile and would make a lovely addition to any jumper or bag. We’d like to make a few of them and attach them to homemade greetings cards or as gift wrap adornments. You could also sew them together to make a larger garment, but we like what Caught On a Whim has done and used them individually as little bits of flower power.

Images & pattern: Caught on a whim

Magnolia Blossom

Skills: Paper Craft
Difficulty: Medium

We’re a little bit of obsessed with magnolia. They’re so beautiful with their pinky white goblet shaped flowers and the fact we only have them for such a brief amount of time each year, makes them even more special.

These paper magnolias from Vitamini Handmade would look lovely in a vase all year round.

Images & tutorial: Vitamini Handmade