How to Make Felt Flowers With Stems No Sew

Learning how to make felt flowers and turning them into a bouquet makes them perfect for gifts, home décor, and special occasions. These felt flowers never wilt, are easy to customize with colors, and come together to make something uniquely yours.

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How to Make Felt Flowers Video:

Enjoy my video tutorial showing you step by step how to make felt flowers! https://youtu.be/BRQpHxrspKo

Supplies You’ll Need:

• Felt sheets
• Sharp scissors
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• Twig stems, floral wire, or wooden skewers

Tip: Using two shades of the same color adds depth and makes your felt flowers look more realistic.

What kind of felt do you use for felt flowers?

Felt Flowers look best when made with Wool blend Felt. I’ve used inexpensive craft store felt sheets for all of my crafting years, and I love how affordable they are. But a few months ago I splurged and bought some wool felt online and I can totally say they are worth the hype! I highly encourage you to buy and try these felt sheets if you can.

What is the best way to attach felt?

In this how to make felt flowers tutorial I use a hot glue gun to adhere everything. There are many other adhesives available and I share my favorites in this how to glue felt post, but for flowers hot glue works best. The hot glue dries quickly enabling you to make a bunch of flowers with no waiting time.

How to Make Felt Flowers (Step by Step)

Let’s learn how to make felt flowers by hand in 4 easy steps.

1. Cut the Felt Pieces: Using a sharp pair of scissors, hand cut the felt. For one flower you will need: 4 darker shade petals, 5 lighter shade petals, one tiny square + strip for center and two leaves. Slight variations make the flowers look more natural.
2. Attach the Flower Center to the Stem: Apply hot glue to the centre piece of felt, and then fold it onto the twig.
3. Add the Felt Petals: Apply hot glue to the bottom of each petal and adhere while overlapping each petal slightly onto the previous one till you have a full flower.
4. Glue on the Leaves: Glue the leaves to the stem to finish your flower.

TIP: Freehand cutting works perfectly, this is one of the easiest ways to learn how to make felt flowers without templates.

How to Arrange a Felt Flower Bouquet

Once you’ve learned how to make felt flowers, it’s time to turn them into a bouquet. You will need to make several felt flowers in coordinating colors.

To make fillers for the bouquet, cut tiny leaves and adhere onto twigs. The tiny leaves are an extra step, but they look so pretty in the bouquet!

Helpful Tips for Making Felt Flowers

• Use a good quality scissors: Use sharp scissors for clean petal edges. I recommend using the Fiskars Amplify Razor edge shears to easily cut multiple layers of felt at once- and boy does that help speed up the cutting process here.
• Free hand the petal shapes: I didn’t use a template to cut out my felt petals or leaves. I don’t mind if the leaves are a bit wonky, it just makes them uniquely handmade. Don’t worry about perfection, felt flowers look best when they’re slightly imperfect.
• Create an assembly line. Cut all pieces first, then glue and this saves time. I worked with 3 flowers at a time, cut all the felt first, and then started adhering them down.
• Work in small batches to avoid glue strings: I found that I could apply hot glue to up to 4 petals at once and then could adhere to all of them before the glue hardened.
• I was able to make 3 flowers and a couple of buds from two 6 by 6-inch sheets of felt.

Try and use the best quality of felt you can fine- the flowers turn out so luxurious!

Conclusion:

Learning how to make felt flowers is a simple and creative craft that works beautifully for bouquets. With just felt, glue, and a little time, you can create long-lasting flowers that are perfect for gifting or decorating your home. I made generic flowers here, but you can use a carnation, peony, dahlia or even an anemone flower as inspiration to create yours. If you have felt left over, don’t worry, there are so many super cute things that you can make with felt.

I love how these flowers turned out and I enjoyed the process of making them even more. Once you learn how to make your own felt flowers, you can use them to decorate hair clips, wreaths and so much more!

If you are interested in more flower tutorials, check out how to make a DIY paper flower garland!