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Create from Felt the Provincial Flower of British Columbia: Pacific Dogwood

 

This flowering tree is so revered, it was made illegal to take cuttings of the Pacific Dogwood in province of British Columbia in 1931 (the act was repealed in 2002). Used as an emblem for fundraising during WW2, the beloved tree because the official flower for the province of British Columbia in 1956.


This is not your typical flower, so we will be using the terms "flowerhead" instead of  "stamin" and "bracts" instead of "petals".

Supplies:
  • wire (about 30 cm in length)
  • white, green and light or lime green felt for the flowerhead (you can even use white or tan)
  • glue gun glue

Tools
  • scissors
  • hair straightener, parchment paper
  • wire cutter
  • glue gun
1) Cut out the felt pieces.








2) Assemble the leaves. Bend the wire, creating loops where you can attach the leaves (the center loop in the image below is where I'm going to attach the completed flower. Place a leaf over the end of a wire loop, and add a dab of glue to a small leaf piece. Sandwiching the wire loop between the leaf pieces, attach the small leaf piece to near the base of the felt leaf.








3) Continue to add leaves.








4) Flip over, and bend the leaves








5) Prepare the flower head: fold the lime green piece height wise in half. Snip slits every 0.5 cm or so down the length of the felt piece. 








6) Add glue along the length of one edge and  press edges together. Roll flower head, securing with glue every 1cm.







7) Heat up the straightening iron and prep the parchment paper in order to iron the bracts (petals). First fold the bracts down the center and iron for 15 seconds. then fold the sides into the center and iron again for 15 seconds. Keeping the sides still folded, iron a third time to re crease that center line. repeat on all the bracts.









8) Attach bracts to the base of the flower head.









9) And finally, attach flower to center of leaves piece




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