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1. Introduction: You ever tried paper
quilling before? It's so accessible and cheap. Paper strips are not very expensive and you don't
need many tools either. In this class, you're going to learn how to make
a ball of wool, a ball of yarn with knitting needles stuck out the top and a little tail of thread out
the bottom. It's very simple. We're only going to be
making two different shapes, and I'm going to be showing
you how to coil your paper, how to shape them,
glue it all together, and then mount it on something
like a card if you want. This is a really
great place to start. Like I say, paper quilling,
it's so relaxing, it's so therapeutic and
chilling and almost meditative, and it's cheap and accessible. I've absolutely fallen in love with it and if you
enjoy this class, let me know because I'll
make more and I'm happy to make any designs that
you've got ideas for as well. Join me in the first
lesson now to see all of the things you're
going to need to bring this design to life.
2. What you will need: The first considerations
you have to make with quilling is
which strips to buy. Now, they all can come
in different lengths. So this first lot that
you can see here, these are the ones
I'll be using, and these are 52.5
centimeters long. But you can see that
this pack is shorter. It's more like 30 centimeters. And you can even get packs like this other one that you
can see in the packet. These are meant for making
those little origami stars, so they're a little bit wider. That's the other consideration. These quilling strips
can go from anything, I think from 2
millimeters in width, all the way up to
multiple centimeters, depending on what you
want and it's fine to make some matching
projects as well. But for the purposes
of this class, I'm going to be using
the longer strips, which are 52.5 centimeters
long and these are of a five millimeter diameter,
half a centimeter. I'll just show you
that to prove it, and I'm going to be
walking you through exactly how many
different strips you need and in which colors to make your ball of yarn with
the knitting needles, like you'll have seen on
the introduction and here. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. This is very well
suited to beginners. It's a very simple one to do, and I just designed this myself. I've only started
quilling recently, but I'm completely obsessed, so expect more classes from me on different
things as well. If there's something
specific that you would like me to create and design so
that you can follow along you know, let me know,
Leave a comment in the class discussion and I will be more than happy
to try and do that. But yeah, 52.5 centimeter strips are what
you're going to need, and you're going
to need yourself one of these quilling tools. Essentially, it's almost
like got a pin at the end, but it's got this. You can see there's
a gap in the middle. So it's a two pronged pin, and it means that you can put
your paper strip in between in that gap to coil the paper. Also, you're going to need
a really good paper glue and some cocktail sticks. This is for gluing. Gluing is
probably the fiddlest part, and it's good to have
a pair of scissors on hand as well
because we will be cutting some of our strips a bit shorter for different
parts of the quilling. Up next, I'll show you which
colors and which lengths of paper strip you're going to need for this specific design.
3. Paper colours and lengths: For your ball of wool or yarn, you're going to need
to choose a color. I've gone with two colors and if you want your ball of wool or yarn to
look like mine, then you want to choose
two colors as well. They can be of the same color, like you can see here, a light pink or dark pink, or you can use two
completely different colors. It's totally up to you. Any color combination
is possible. You'll want strips, three
whole strips of one color. Two whole strips of
the other color, and then you're also
going to want a strip of white and a strip of gray. This is for the band
around the wool and also for the
knitting needles. We're not going to need
all of that strip, but I'll show you
what I'm doing. The strip that you've
got three colors of, which in my case
is the dark pink, we want to have strips
that are half the length. For me, the easiest way to do that is to just fold it in half. And then cut it.
That's very easy. We're using 52.5 centimeter
strips and then I'm just folding that in half
and then we're getting two strips that are
half that length. I'll put what that length
is up on the screen if you're using different strips so that you can cut your own. But yeah, essentially,
I am folding two of my dark pink strips in half so that I then
have four lengths. Of a half. And then I'm leaving
one length whole for now. Then I'm now moving down onto the pale pink and doing exactly the same,
folding them in half. Again, we want to
have four halves. We've got two pale pink strips, and I'm just folding them and
cutting them both in half. Then you will have
four half strips of one color and four half
strips of the other color. Then we're going to move on to that final dark pink strip. So whatever your color is
that you've got three strips of now you want to make
that strip into thirds. Again, I'm using
the same method. I'm just going to fold
my strip into thirds. I just fold one end over and then pull the
other end across the other way and just
wiggle them about until they are lining
up and in thirds, and then I'm going
to cut that as well. Then I'll have three shorter
strips for that color. So to recap, you're
going to have 31 third strips of your dark
color and four half strips. Then your pale color, you're going to have four half strips, and the dimensions will
be on screen if you are cutting your own
and you don't have the same length strips as me, which is the long strips
are 52.5 centimeters. And don't worry if your strips
aren't perfect in length. You can make yarn and
wool balls of any size. So as long as you're
following the scale, I mean, you could start with a 30
centimeter strip and you could fold those in half
and your yarn ball would just be smaller than mine. The strip that we broke
into three pieces, that's going to be used
for the centerpiece of the top and bottom
of the ball of yarn, and then the third bit
is going to be used for the little trail of thread of wool that
comes out the bottom. We have got the gray, which we will use for the
knitting needles, and we've also got the white which we'll use for the band of wool
around the yarn. Yeah, that is essentially
what we need in strips. We'll cut the white
and gray down later on when we get to
that point in the process. But for now, that is what you need to get started
with this project, like you can see, it's
not a lot of paper. If you've bought a
whole pack of strips, you're going to be
able to make so many balls of wool and yarn. So, really good. I'm going to lay
them all out here to make it nice
and clear for you. And up next, we will start
to make our ball of wool. I will be showing
you how to quill. It's very, very simple. And yeah, just follow
along with me.
4. Making your coils: So I would say the
fiddliest part with paper quilling
is the gluing. Make sure you get yourself
a good paper glue. This is the one that I use. It's called cosmic
shimmer and it dries quite quickly and
is really strong. It's also dries clear and
it's easy to wipe away. My top tip is to get
a toilet roll tube, cut it open, and squirt out a bit of glue
so it's there and ready. Try not to squirt out too
much because like I said, it does dry quickly because
I was demonstrating the quilling in this example and I spent a bit
longer doing it, it did dry out for me
and get a bit tacky, only square out as
much as you need. But if you have it
out there ready and you've got a cocktail stick nearby to dab a bit on and
just put it on the paper, it does really improve the process and make
things a lot easier. That's my top tip for gluing. So to begin this design, we are going to be working with the one third strips
of our dark color, in my case, the dark pink, and you want to put that into the slotted quilling tool that you hopefully have sourced, and we're just going to
twist that to create a coil. Now, you want to hold
it with your fingers and have a fairly firm grip, but you don't want
it to be too tight. You want to still be able to
spin it and create a coil. It doesn't matter if it comes off a little bit
messy like this. Just make sure that you're
holding it tight so it doesn't unravel and you
can actually push it down on a flat surface
like a table and then it will align the edges so that
you get this nice neat coil. Then just in your fingers, hold it and gradually
release your grip, release the tension, and you're going to slightly
unravel the coil. This is going to help us to get a nice design when we squeeze it later on to
make it into a shape. Going to allow us to create
a slightly bigger shape. When you're happy with
the size of the coil, you can see how much
I've unraveled it here. You want to just add a little
bit of glue on the tip of the end and just firmly push
that down to glue it shut. If there's any excess glue, you can just wipe that away. You can see here
roughly how much I have let mine uncoil,
not too much at all. And now because we
want our ball of yarn, our ball of wool to look
fairly symmetrical, we're now going to use another strip of
the same color and do exactly the same process
and we are going to make sure that when we
release the tension and let it uncoil it ends up at roughly the same diameter as that first one that we just made so that from left to right, it's going to look symmetrical. Yeah, I'm pushing it
down on the table again to just flatten
out the edges, and then I'm going to just
release the tension and just trying to reach the same diameter as that
first one that we made, and I'm just going to
pick that up just to see it looks about
the same there. Then when you're happy
with the diameter, you can just add a
little bit of glue on the end and just stick
that like we did before. Now we can see that we have
done the first two coils. These are the middle coils
for the top and the bottom. They were done with
the dark color in the strips that were
one third in length. Now we're going on to
our lighter color, and this is the
half length pieces, we are coiling these up and these are going
to just be slightly bigger because they are going to form a shape around
that inner coil. You can see there that it's
not level, but like I said, push it down on a hard surface and you can sort that
out quite quickly. And here we have a coil, and we're going to release the tension slightly
more on this one, it's got a little bit more
flexibility to create a shape that will bend
around that middle section. Later on when we're
shaping our coils, you'll see that there's a lot of bending and
squeezing involved, but it really does
start coming alive when you start gluing the
pieces together as well. So don't worry if it looks a bit like it's not
going to work right now. I will work. We're going to go through all of the
steps of the process. But first of all, I think it's good to just make
all of the coils for the design and then we'll move on to
shaping them later on. You can see that this coil in the lighter color is slightly bigger than our middle coil. I'm now going to glue that, and then I'll be
making another coil using this one as reference. Essentially, we're always
making pairs of coils that are of a similar size for the
left and the right hand side. Of this design. So yeah, releasing the tension again
to match the diameter and the size of the coil that we had already
made in the pale pink. So we're just going to
do that and when we're happy that they look as
similar as possible, we will glue that shut. But, you know, a ball of
wool is an organic thing. It doesn't have to
be symmetrical, it doesn't have to look perfect. You'll see in this example
that the ball that I make is actually much skinnier and taller than the other balls
that I've previously made. The reason for that is that I put slightly less tension
in my quilling shapes. So I made them
essentially bit looser. Now you could keep
them a bit tighter, not completely tight because otherwise you won't be
able to shape them. But the tighter
that you keep them, the smaller you
keep the circles, the more short and stubby
your ball of wool will look, the more you let out the tension you let
the spiral expand, the taller and narrower your
ball of yarn will end up. So that's something to
play around with as well. These don't take
very long to make, and it's a very
low cost to entry. You can buy a whole
pack of 1,000 plus strips of quilling
paper for about two pounds. I bought a pack on Amazon of about 5,000 strips
for eight pounds, and that's literally going
to last you for ages. So yeah, really low cost
barrier to entry for this. And now we're going
to move on to do the light pink spirals for the bottom half
of the ball of yarns. Again, we're trying to match similar size diameter to the
ones we've already made. So we're going to
release them out and try and make them of
a very similar size, you're going to start to
see the pattern coming together even though they're
not shaped and formed yet. We're going to end
up with four of these pale pink ones and then that's the pale
pink color done completely. Then we're going to move
on to our dark pink. And we're going to be making another four
coils, this time, slightly looser again
because they have a bit of a larger
surface area to cover. If you think as you're
going outwards, they need to get bigger to go around the shape
that already exists. We're going to be
sticking these to the light pink color
on the inside and we just need to be able
to stretch slightly longer to be able to
fit around that shape. Literally anything
goes, there are no rules with quilling. The main thing is to have fun. But my suggestion is to release your dark pink on the outside or whatever
color you're using to have a very much slightly bigger
diameter just to allow for it to squash and bend a little bit further
when we shape them. Just follow my example. We're going to make
four more coils now and they are going to be just slightly
wider in diameter. And just do it by eye. They
don't have to be perfect. You're just looking for
roughly the same size. Then when you have done that, we will start shaping them. That's what's coming up next.
5. Shaping and gluing your coils: For the design, it's
very, very simple. We're going to be making two different shapes
with our coils, starting with the middle two
with the dark pink note. You'll have a seam,
which is where you stuck the end and you
want to make sure that this is within your fingers on one end and then
you're going to hold your coil like
this so it's looking like an eye shape and you're just going to pinch the ends, make sure the circle in the
middle is as central as possible and you just want to pinch and get nice
sharp little ends. But yeah, make sure that
the the bit that you glued, the line is at one of the ends because it's going to make
your design look a lot neater. Then yeah, pinch the
other one as well. We're going to end up with two eye shapes for this pattern. These are the middle
sections of the ball of yarn that the other shapes
are going to sit around. Nice and easy there,
two little eye shapes and you literally just pinch the ends to create the shapes, just making sure that the circle at the middle stays
in the center. That's all you've
got to focus on. Then again, now we're working outwards and
we're going to again make sure that the end is between our fingers and
we're going to do exactly the same process. We're going to pinch as if
we were making an eye shape, but we actually want to
flatten this even more. We get to the eye shape
and then we are going to bend it so it becomes
more like a moon shape, like a crescent moon. You just want to do this quite firmly, quite a bit of pressure. Now, it's going to
expand out when we let go and you're
going to think, oh gosh, this is not
the right shape, it's not going to
work, but it will. As soon as we get
to the stage where we are adding the glue, this
will all come together. So we're going to do
that process for all of our pale pink ones or
whatever color you're using, we're going to make sure that the end that we've glued is
between one of our fingers and then we are going to pinch it down into
an eye and then flatten it even more and make
it into a crescent moon. I'm just laying those out to create the shape
of the ball of wool and just doing
one at a time and then putting it back down on the table in the
correct position. Another thing that I like to do, you're always trying to hide those seams where you've
glued the coils together. So what I do is on the top half, all of the little seams
where the glue line was, I aim those downwards
and on the bottom half, they are on the top facing up because we're going to put
that band around this ball of wool and that's going to cover up all those seam lines and make our final artwork
look a lot neater. But yeah, always make
sure that the end that we glued is at one end
when you're pinching, then again, we're making crescent moons for the final
color on the outside too. Really squeeze it
down quite flat and bend it into a moon
as much as you can. Like I say, it will expand and change shape
when you let go, but we're going to fix that
when we glue it all together. This is a pretty simple design. There are so many shapes that
you can make in quilling, but they're all based on the same original coiled circle and there are different
things you can do, which I'll show you
in other classes. But this is one of the most basic designs
that you can do, and I think anybody watching this will be able
to recreate it. Now we've got all of
our pieces shaped. The next stage we'll
be gluing it together. What you want to do is
we're going to take that secondary color
and we're going to put glue all along the length on the the longest side
to the flatter side, and we're going to
then be sticking this to our eye
shape in the middle. I'm picking up the dark pink, which is the middle
section, the eye, and we want to pinch this
now and hold it until it dries and basically
line up the edges. So we're lining up that inner
edge of our crescent moon with the edge of our eye in the middle and we're pinching
that until it dries. This is what's going to start forming the shape and giving us our really nice
looking ball of yarn. Now, like I said, the paper glue I'm using it dries
quite quickly, so I haven't had to
pinch that too long. Then I'm now applying glue
with my cocktail stick again. Don't need too much glue, probably done a
bit too much here. But yeah, spread
it around all over the length and just make sure from the tip of one end
to the tip of the other, you put a bit of glue all over it to get the best contact. Then again, we'll put
this on the other side of the eye shape and then squeeze that together
with our fingers. Make sure that every
single part of it is gluing and sticking. And this is creating
our design from the middle outwards for the top part of our bowl
of wool or bowl of yarn. Just hold that until it's dried. Then it's basically
the same process. We will now take our
next two pieces. We're going back to
the darker color and we're going to put glue
on that inner edge, the inner side of
the crescent moon, put glue all the way along
from the top to the bottom. Just a very thin coating, and then we'll pick it back up and you'll now see
why that needs to be longer because it's now got a much longer space
to go around. Then again, we're going to be
pinching that as tightly as we can until it glues dry glue. The glue dries, basically, yeah. So this is finishing off the top half of
our ball of yarn, and we just got one
more piece to go, we've got the dark pink
piece on the other side, exactly the same process, put the glue on and then pinch it until it
has finished drying. Then we've got a top piece
of our ball of yarn. We just literally
repeat exactly what we just did on the bottom half. We'll be taking that
eye shape again, applying glue to the
pale pink crescent moon on its longest, flattest side, and pinching it to the eye
shape until it dries firm, and then doing the same on the other side with the
other piece of pale pink. Then we'll be working
outwards and applying glue to our dark pink pieces and pinching those until
they've glued as well. And then we'll be left with the two parts of
our ball of yarn, the top part and
the bottom part. Coming up next, we'll be assembling our final
illing design.
6. Assembling your design: So to assemble our design, we have now got our
finished top and bottom pieces of
our ball of yarn, and we're going to
put our paper strip around the middle to create the band that you would
find on a ball of wool. And to do this, you'll want to
wiggle that top and bottom together and
you'll probably find a natural shape where the two pieces connect and it feels like it gives the
shape that you like. You can turn them upside down. You can find whichever
way you think looks best. Then we are going to cut a
piece of this white strip, roughly an inch, a bit longer
than an inch in length. I'm just doing it by eye, but you can use a
ruler to measure it. And then we're going to
apply glue all the way on the length of this piece
like we were doing before. This piece to it doesn't
need to be incredibly neat because we're going
to do a second strip on top of it, which
will be the neat one. This one is literally just to stick those two halves together and give it a little
bit of stability. So just put in glue with the cocktail stick all the way along the length of this and then we're just going to
place that down to cover the seam between our top
and the bottom of our wool. And then we're
going to bend that around the sides and
I'm going to use another cocktail stick to just push it on the sides of
the design into the gap, the waist of the
wool, just to really stick these two pieces together and yeah give
it a bit of stability. You can even pull it
all the way around and let it stick on the
back a little bit as well. Then the pieces that
are overhanging, just go in there with the pair of scissors and cut those off, cut them short, you'll find
now that when this is dried, you can pick up your ball of wool as one piece,
which is really good. Now we're going to tidy it up by putting another
strip on top of this strip to create our final band and this is
going to look much neater. We're not going to
push that in quite as firmly and it's
going to just sit on top and give a nice flat finish to the
band around the wool. Cut another strip
just over an inch in length and just as before, you want to add glue
all along the length and place it down directly on top of the strip
that's already there. Try and line it up as perfectly
as you can to avoid it looking messy and there's
two strips there. You want to just put
it directly on top. Then we're going to
fold it around just like we did before
around the edges. But this time,
we're not going to push it into the waist as
deeply as we did before. We're going to just lightly push it so that the paper is
touching the paper underneath, and this is going to
give a much neater look. Then the paper ends that are left at the back that
are just overhanging, again, we'll go in there
with a pair of scissors and just snip those off so
it's nice and neat. This is essentially
all we need to do to assemble our ball of yarn and to make sure that it all stays
together as one piece. But you can add further details, and I'm going to show you in the next lesson how to make some knitting needles
to poke into your ball of wool and to also
have an extra bit of yarn that is coming out at
the bottom as a little trail, which is the end of your wool, you'll see how to do that in the next lesson with
the final details.
7. Adding the final details: So final details, we're going to start by making
our knitting needles. We're going to get
the gray strip of paper and we're going
to cut a piece off roughly a third of
the length if you're using 52.5 centimeter strips. And we want to make this
thicker than the paper itself. I'm now folding this
piece into thirds. So we're going to create a piece that is three times
the thickness. Again, just doing this by eye. You can use ruler if you prefer. I just like to do things
more spontaneously and now that we have this
folded in three parts, we're going to add glue
to the inner side, fold it over and
stick that down, and then we'll add glue to the outer piece and
stick that on top. We end up with a piece that
is three times as thick. This is going to give more stability because
when you're quilling, sometimes you have thin pieces that you stick down
on their edge, which is what we're
going to be doing for these knitting needles and making it a bit thicker gives it more stability and more contact and it's just a
bit easier to do. And also knitting
needles are thick, you know, they're thicker
than a strand of wool. So, it makes sense that this piece of paper
is slightly thicker. So you can see I'm
just yeah gluing down again and then we'll
fold that final piece over and then we'll end up with this piece that is
three layers thick. Now if you've got a bit that was overhanging because
you did it by eye and you folded it
and it wasn't perfect, it's fine to just chop
that off to neaaten it up. Then what I like to do
for my knitting needles is to cut it so that one is sticking out a little bit
higher than the other. I'm going to cut
this not in half, but so that I've got one that is a little bit longer
than the other. Almost two thirds to one
third, not quite that, but you can see that
I've got one that is a good little bit
taller than the other, and these are going to
be our knitting needles. Then for the top of
the knitting needle, for the little bull
bit at the end, we're going to
make tiny spirals, little coils, and we're going
to keep those very tight. I am measuring for
this. We want them to both be roughly
the same size, and I am going to use a
piece that is 2 " long. Or if you work in centimeters,
that's 5 centimeters. I'm cutting two pieces of
gray to that same length, and then I'm going to
be twirling these on the tool to create
very tight coils. This is very important that when you are holding this
with your fingers against the metal tool that
you're holding this with a bit more pressure because we want to keep this
small and tight. We don't want to release
any of the spiral, make sure that you're
holding it quite firmly, not so firmly that you're not able to pull
it off the tool, but firmly enough that it's not releasing tension if it
has spread out slightly, you can push it down on the
table or push it between your fingers to get the
edges much straighter. Then essentially by still holding it tight
with your fingers, tease out the little end bit of the strip and
we're just going to apply a little bit of
glue to hold that tight. But you want this
to be a tight coil, don't let it unravel,
keep it tight. We want it small and tight. It's the top of a
knitting needle, it doesn't need to be expanded at all. I'm just
going to do that. Then I'm just going to
repeat this process and make another one exactly the same for our second
knitting needle. They should be the
same size because we've used the same
length of paper. Now we've got our
knitting needles and we have got the ends
of our knitting needles. We are going to
stick them together. I'm just adding a bit of glue to the end of one of these
little gray strips, making sure that there's a little bit of
glue on the sides as well as on the and
classically knitters, they stick their needles
into their ball of yarn. You're going to just
squeeze this in a little bit between the layers. It doesn't have to
go in very far, but just hold it
there until it dries and wherever it feels like it fits, wherever
it looks good, just push that down a little
bit into your ball of yarn, and that will look as if your knitting needles are
pushed into the wool. Then I'm going to apply glue to the end of the
other piece and I am also going to stick that in at a slight angle
from the first one. If there's any excess glue, you can go in there with
a cocktail stick or a paint brush and try
and just wipe it away. The more you do of
this, the more you learn how much glue to apply, but generally less is more. You can see in this example, I'm probably using a
little bit too much. It was quite difficult
to put this together on a demonstration because
I had a camera in my face and I couldn't
always see what I was doing. But yeah, I've pushed in the second knitting
needle as well now. You can see I've done that at a slight angle from the first one, and I've actually
decided that that first one I put in there
is a little bit too long, so I'm just going
to snip a bit away. Again, it's better to go too long because you
can snip a bit off, but if it's too short, you
can't easily add a bit on. Now we want to stick the ends of our knitting
needles on to them. I'm choosing the bit where the paper joins the bit that
we glued and I'm adding glue to that line and
then I'm going to just join that with the end of the knitting
needle and hold it there. This will require holding because there is much
less contact happening. Hold that until it sets, and then the other way of doing it is to add
glue to the end of the needle and then push the glue join on
the coil onto that. I'll just show the
other way as well. You can just put a bit of glue on the needle,
whichever you prefer, whichever you feel
more confident with and we're just going to
put that along here. My glue has been out for
a little bit too long. Now it started to
get quite tacky. So if that happens to you, it's better to get more
fluid glue out than use the tacky stuff like
I'm doing because it's going to be cleaner and
give you a better result. But yeah, I'm just pushing on the other
top of the needle here. You can see now we have got
two needles in our wool, our ball of yarn, and it's
looking nice and neat. I'm just going to use my
cocktail stick to just get away a little bit of excess glue there to neaten
things up even more. Then we'll be on to
making our tail of wool. So when you're happy
that the needles have dried and you
like the positioning, we're now going to
make that little tail of wool that sticks
out in the bottom. To do that, we're
using the final third of the darker color, in my case, pink, and this time, we're going to make
it double the width. So I'm folding that in
half and I'm going to glue it along the length just like we did for the
knitting needles. But this time, we're
just folding it in half. We're not doing thirds, so we're making it twice as fat. And you can see here
my glue has got very, very tacky and thick,
which isn't great. Please make sure that
your glue is more liquid. Don't leave it out
as long as I have because this is not going
to give the best result. You want to have a
nice light covering of glue that's very even so that when you
stick it together, it is stuck all the way along
and it looks nice and neat. But for the purposes of this
demonstration, this is fine. Then when that is glued, I am going to then choose a
position in the bottom of the ball of yarn to place this in just like we did
with the knitting needles, it's going to poke
in slightly to our design and we're going to
add some glue to stick it. But we also want to give
this piece a bit of shape. We want to make it
look like it is a straggly end of wool and it's got a
bit of wiggle to it. I'm going to bend it up and down and give it a
bit of an S shape. You want to focus on
getting rounded shapes, try to bend it and curl it between your
fingers to get it rounded. Don't fold it because you're going to then get a harsh edge. Then it's really nice on the end to make it a bit of a coil. You may also find that
it's a bit too long, in which case, just
cut a bit off. You can sometimes use
your coiling tool. Sometimes it's a bit too thick when it's
double the thickness. See if you can get it in there. If you can't just use your fingers to
create a looser coil. I think that's what
I'm going to end up you can buy different
quilling tools, some of them with
a wider gap for doing thicker amounts of strips. If you've bought a set,
then you can use that. But I'm just going to go
with the finger method, and so I'm just putting
the end between my fingers and just
rolling that and coiling it and rolling it back and forth to create
this coil at the end. Then bending the strip up and down to create
a wavy S shape, and then we're just
going to take the end, add a little bit of glue
and stick it up into the ball that is going
to be our design. All finished. You can see
it is very, very simple. You can stick this onto a card and it looks really effective. You can put multiple balls of yarn on a card. You can
do whatever you want. Really, whatever your imagination
wants to do, go for it. Don't forget to share what you've created in
the project window. I want to see a huge
variety of balls of wool, balls of yarn, however
you like to say it. Let's make it look
like a shop front with loads of yarn on display. Do them in different
colors, different sizes, arrange them on cards, make artwork on a canvas, whatever you want to do. I'm going to show you one of the balls that I
made previously. I'm going to mount
that on a card to give to somebody as a thank you. I'll show you how
I'm doing that as well in the next lesson.
8. Adding your art to a card: One thing that you
can do is with your finished quilling art, you can add it onto a card
and give it to somebody. It's a really nice
handmade present, and I think it's just
a lovely gesture. Not enough people
do this anymore. To do this, I have got these wonderful metallic
watercolor paints. These are by Jane Davenport, but you can get them in
various different places. I'm just going to on this
small square card blank, stick down this ball of
yarn that I made previously in blue because the person I'm giving it to her
favorite color is blue, and I'm just going
to put some of this metallic watercolor
paint down onto the card. As a background behind it. I'm just going to use
two different colors, blend them together
and just make a little colorful
backdrop for that. You can do whatever you want. You could use acrylic paint. You could put a pie piece of
paper in a shape behind it. Literally anything goes
and very, very simple. I'm just painting
this down behind. Then when that has dried, you will want to stick
your quilling down. So put it down on the card and play around
with the position. You can put it at an angle, put it off center,
put it in the middle, whatever you want
to do, whatever you feel looks right and
looks nice to you. You just literally
want to put glue on the back and make sure that
the glue is on everywhere. On your very thin strips,
for your knitting needles, for your string of yarn that
comes out at the bottom, make sure that there's glue
on all of that because we want every single bit of
this design to be stuck down. Again, use your cocktail stick
and just spread it around, get as much glue as you
can not too much glue, but get coverage everywhere
and then hold it above your card when you're happy with where you're
going to put it down, just place it down and push
it a bit firmly everywhere. Make sure on all the
thin pieces as well to get that glue to adhere
and have the contact. That's it. Let it
dry. There you go. It's done. You could
also add a sentiment. I did later add a little
sentiment that said, thank you and I've
taken a picture so you can see what the
final card looked like here. I've passed it on
to the recipient already and she
absolutely loved it. Like I say, I've only started quilling recently and so I'm giving cards out to as many people as I can
at every opportunity, and they're going
down really well. If there's something
a design that you'd like me to make in
a future quilling class, let me know in the
class discussion. Make sure to post pictures of your own development and what you've made in the
project window, thank you very much for being here and for following along. I hope to make many
more quilling classes, but it all really depends on you and how many
people take this one. If you liked it, let me know
and if you didn't like it, also let me know and I
won't make any more. Thanks again. Hope you're
having a great day. Bye
Tortor Smith, Animator, Director, Artist
