All Tizzied Up has taught her daughters how to make these ribbon flowers just as she did when she was a kid.  Very cute and pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

All you need is some ribbon (thickness will determine how big the flower head ends up being), some felt if you would like to add leaves, styrofoam ball, wooden skewer and some pipe cleaners for the stem.  Step by step photos and instructions can be found by running over or clicking on the picture gallery below.

Start by folding your length of ribbon at a right angle. These ones are made with lengths of ribbon around 50cm.

Continue to fold the ribbon over itself one side at a time

You should end up with something like this!

Grab the ends and pull one side only.

Until you end up with something like this!

Secure the rosette with some hot glue or a loose stitch.

Cut ball in half,

glue to felt, to create the back of the flower.

Cut out some leaves,

glue to underside of flower. Insert skewer.

Wrap skewer with pipe cleaner for colour and texture, or you could just use a green skewer.

Ribbon Rose,