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Create from Felt the Provincial Flower of Manitoba : Prairie Crocus

 

This post starts a series of felt flower projects where I recreate all 13 provincial and territorial flowers of Canada.
Starting with the heartland, well certainly my heartland, the center of Canada: Manitoba, and its provincial flower the Prairie Crocus. This fascinating flower is both very delicate, and very fuzzy - so I gave it a fabulous white collar in my simplified felt version.

Supplies:
  • purple, medium green, light green, yellow and white felt (if you don't have light green felt, use yellow felt)
  • glue gun glue
  • wire for the stem

Tools:
  • scissors
  • glue gun

1) Cut out all the pieces.










2) Add glue to one side of the light green felt circle and cover the tip if the wire, pinching the sides down as best you can.

3) take the yellow felt rectangle and fold in half  height wise and, with scissors, make multiple horizontal cuts as shown, leaving the sides intact so just the center area has slits (which when folded make up the loops). Add glue between the uncut sides (not the area with your cut loops).











4) Wrap the light green felt on the wore with the yellow felt loops and glue in place - I only wrapped the light green once, so I discarded the extra yellow felt. Set aside.










5) Glue the bases of the purple felt petals by adding a small drop of glue gun glue to the inner base of one side (green dot below) and fold the other side over it as shown below in blue.








6) Glue the bottom of each petal to the base of the yellow felt.









7) Take your white felt and with a small dot of glue, "pin" one end of the flat bottom to the base of the petals right against your wire. Twist the white felt once, and wrap the felt around the wire so that the white spikes stick out, like a fur boa, gluing at the base to the wire. You don't need to do the twist part, but I found it compelled the felt to stick out.









8) Take your large medium felt stem piece and fold height wise, placing the flower wire in the middle with the spiky end up against the white felt. glue the open side of the green stem felt.










9) Take the smaller medium green felt and with the spikes sticking up, wrap around the center of the stem, gluing in place.









10) the flower is complete, but fair waring if you intend to add this to, say a wreath, you will need to add a small length or wire to the base for easier wrapping around a form. As is, for a corsage, or a simple arrangement in a small vase, I think it's super cute.






















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