Flower Loom How-to
April 30th, 2007 by CandaceI needed a flower loom for a crochet project I’m doing, but didn’t have one. I went to three different craft stores and no success of finding one. I could order one off the internet, but that’s more money and time than if I just made one myself. So I headed back to the craft store in search of supplies.
All you’ll need is a 3/16″ wooden dowel, a package of wooden rounds, scissors/small saw, and some glue. I used hot glue for this tutorial, but you may want to use a wood glue or fast-drying epoxy, since the hot glue won’t hold up to a lot of tugging and pulling. And if you can’t find round wooden shapes, you can always use square ones, and make a circle using a compass. You’ll cut (or saw, whichever is easier) your dowell into 1 to 2-inch pieces. For a larger loom, you’ll want 10-12 pieces. First, glue four pieces to the opposite sides. You can mark the center of the circle with a pen so you place the pieces evenly.
Then you’ll position the remainder of the pieces in place.
You can do the same with smaller rounds, making different shape looms. For the large loom I used 12 pegs, for the medium, 8, and for the small, 6.
Now you can embellish anything, using yarn, ribbon, or even twine.
April 30th, 2007 at 8:42 am
What a wonderful idea! I loved making these as a child. We would make a ton of these at Christmas time using ribbon. They made beautiful package toppers.
Shelley
April 30th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Great job..you are so industrious!…So how do you make the Flowers? Just curious.
April 30th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
So cool….not how do I make the flower?
April 30th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Please tell how to make the flower as I bought all the pieces for this today then realised I have no idea how to actually use it.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:05 am
This is really cool. How do you make the flower? please share.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Once you’ve created the loom how do you make the flower? Thanks!
July 9th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Thanks for the instructions on making the little loom – what a great idea. Will have to get a few bits and make one up!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:44 am
i didn’t think of making them myself !
that’s a good idea to change the patterns…
thanks !
i also use them for packing….
http://flickr.com/photos/charlie_pop/3007751742/
March 29th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
For those asking for how to make the flower:
http://www.craftstylish.com/item/9958/how-to-make-flowers-using-a-vintage-flower-loom
June 10th, 2010 at 1:49 am
Very very ingenius, I will copy your idea!!!!
very good.
kisses
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