Artificial Flowers

Making artificial flowers should be fun as well as practical. The finished products have a number of uses: trimming for a hat; a spot of color on a dress; general decoration in the home; specific decoration for a stage set in your community little theatre. Know what you want to do with the flowers before you start, and then plan accordingly.

You will find that this apparently simple hobby is a challenge to your skill and ingenuity. No, there's nothing really difficult about it, but at first you are almost sure to find your fingers falling all over each other and your finished designs looking like something that got caught up in the dishwasher. It takes a while before your fingers gain enough skill to produce what you have in mind.

Hobby and craft shops supply materials for flower-making and also offer beginning instruction books. Probably the best way to start is to consult with someone in a hobby store or an expert hobbyist (if you know one) who will suggest materials and patterns and first steps toward production. There are several books available for your instruction. The experienced flower-maker, however, likes to improvise, and will build flowers from odds and ends around the house: bits of fabric, ribbons, or colored paper.

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