Tutorial: How To Make A Looped Twine Flower

I took a little break from layouts and cards to make an altered project: decorated flip flops.  I don’t know if these will be super practical to wear, but they were fun to make and that’s what counts. :)   

I used Trendy Twine’s Krazy for Kraft to make the twine flowers on these flip flops.  The flowers were easy to do, but you will need to fashion a little loom to make the loops.  The size of the flowers depends on the size of your loom.  My loom was 3-inches across because I needed fairly large flowers for the flip flops, but you could make the loom any size and follow the same principle.

To make the loom, I cut a 3-inch circle from corrugated cardboard. I marked it like a clock with 12 at the top and 6 at the bottom.  I didn’t measure the distances between each time.  I just eyeballed it.  It isn’t necessary to be super accurate with these flowers.  Once I had my circle marked like a clock, I stuck straight pins in at each number.   This was my loom.

To make the flowers, I cut an 8-foot piece of twine. I started the twine by looping one end over the pin at 12, then looped it down to 6.  From there, I looped 11 down to 5 and 10 down to 4, etc., looping opposite numbers each time.  Do this until you have made two complete passes of the loom.

To secure the loops, use the remaining length of twine to backstitch through each petal then tie off.  This is the back of the flower and won't show.

To remove the flower from the loom, take out the pins.  Flip the flower over and add a decorative center, if desired. I added brads from Echo Park Paper. 

You can find more beach-themed twine projects on the Trendy Twine blog. To play along with the August challenge, visit the blog here and link your project. We can't wait to see what you make!