Lilac Kanzashi - master class

Lilac is a beautifully flowering shrub that adorns parks and private farmsteads, filling the spring air with a pleasant aroma and possessing medicinal properties . Today I will show you how to make a lilac using Japanese satin ribbon folding technique. This technique is called Kansas.

Lilac in Kanzash technique from satin ribbons by own hands - master class

For its manufacture we need:

• two satin ribbons 2.5 cm wide (green for leaves and white, can be lilac for flowers themselves);
• glue gun;
• glue;
• scissors;
• a lighter (can be replaced with a candle);
• midpoints for flowers;
• I still needed a bezel and a bouquet.

Performance:

1. First, I cut the green satin ribbon into strips of 6 cm (14 pieces), and cut the white ribbon with squares (52 pieces).
2. We make petals. Take a white square and fold it in half so that the triangle is formed.
3. Bend the lower corner to the middle, after the upper bend. We get a diamond.
4. Now add the resulting diamond in half, and get this petal.
5. Now we need to burn and pinch this tip so that our petal does not turn around. And a little cauterized and pinch from below, as in the photo.
6. We can start making leaves. Take a strip of green satin ribbon.
7. Fold it in half. Then cut the corner from one side and burn the cut (do not forget to pinch).
8. That's what we should get.
9. On the other hand, wrap the corners to the middle.
10. Again, we burn and pinch the edge.
11. We must make 52 white petals and 14 green leaves.
12. We start to collect a flower. Lubricate the petal with glue on the side and glue the second one.
13. And so all the rest. Now you can connect the halves.
14. We glue the centers and our flowers are ready.
15. Now the leaves. We collect them in three rows. The first row of 5 leaves. The second row of 4 leaves, and the third. But when I gathered the lilacs, it seemed to me that they were not enough. And I pasted two more leaves at the sides to the first row.
16. Let's proceed to assembly. To begin with, we'll collect our lilacs just on the surface.
17. Now we begin to glue flowers together. The first row is 3 flowers. The second row is 4 flowers.
18. And the third row again. The fourth row is 2 flowers, and the fifth is 1.
19. On the rim I glued here such a bauble.
20. A little below the middle, the rim glued the leaves and the ready lilac.

And that's what I got - a beautiful branch of lilac Kanzash, decorating the bezel. As you can see, making a lilac in Kansas technique is not as difficult as it might seem.