Roses Tutorial

Over the past few days I have started to find various ways of making roses which can be hand sewn onto the White Queen dress. Elizabeth has stated she would like various pastel coloured ribbon, organza and lace roses adorning the waist, necklines and hemline of the dress. Each of these will have to be handmade and then individually sewn onto the selected areas. From previous projects I learnt how to make a Valentines Bouquet rose which is a flat folding rose. These are easily made though the results vary order pending on the fabric choices.

This is an example of the Valentines Bouquet    rose, the bias binding roses held there shape quite well however the fabric roses needed a great deal of manipulating to finalise a shape which resembled a rose.

http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/valentines-bouquet/instructions/1







A technique I have picked up today was making a rose by simply folding and then pulling the ribbon through. Below I have wrote out instructions so that when I start teaching these to either helpers, knitting groups or fellow costume students we have a step by step guide which can be referred back to.

1. Cut a length of ribbon aprox 30cm-40cm long (order pending on the size of the rose)
2. Fold the ribbon in half
3. From the half way point turn the ribbon so that it sits at a 90 degree angle
4. Fold underside of ribbon over the top of the upper ribbon, this shall create a boxed 90 degree angle
5. Repeat process 4 until you have 2.5cm of ribbon left
6. When you reach the end take the under ribbon and loosely wrap it around the upper ribbon to form a tail.
7. Pull the upper ribbon (tail) through the wrapped ribbon gently and the ribbon shall start forming petals.
8. Once the required amount of petals are formed cut of any excess tail ribbon.
9. Burn bottom of ribbon to hold or if using a non synthetic fabric, sew ends together.

Finalised folded roses

These roses look a lot more delicate than the previous technique as well as more realistic. To continue this further I have used a hot rhinestoning tool and 2mm rhine stones. This from a distance looks quite beautiful and draws an eye to the roses. However in my view these roses should be scattered and used sparingly as to much could bedazzle the costume and become overbearing. 

Finalised roses with rhinestones