If you have been interested in making a leather flower, this is the perfect tutorial for you. You will create elegant and stunning sunflower using elements of the Japanese Somebana technique. You will be amazed by how fast and fun it is.

Skill Level: Beginners – Advance

Together we will uncover the secrets of making realistic flowers from suede. We will introduce you to our own innovated technique to paint suede so colours are permanent.
You don’t need a full set of flower making tools to make this amazing sunflower. You will only need one flower making tool, a Japanese iron!
In full details, we will explain to you how to work with this universal knife and assemble your creation.

One of the recipes for success of a handmade sunflower is an eye-catching centre. And we pay particular attention to how to make such stunning middle of our flower.

From this Tutorial, you will learn not only how to make a leather flower itself. But we will tell you about the different options of assembling your flower so you will have the perfect finished accessory.

The tutorial contains 28 pages with 71 clear and close photos, instructions and patterns. Numerous tips make this project easy to finish and help you create your own personal variations.

Link to instant download Step-by-step instructions with colour photos.

You can buy a Video Tutorial “How to make a leather/suede sunflower” if you prefer this type of online lessons

You can buy the Leather Flower making Sunflower tutorial Japanese technique here

In order to create the same realistic leather flower, I recommended you to use professional Japanese iron
In this project, I also used the Polyvinyl Alcohol PVA stiffener
Important:
Purchasing this tutorial, you have agreed to use it only for your personal, non-commercial use. The purchase of this pattern does not give you permission to distribute this pattern.
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Created by Galina Kofod – Galelina flowers, Australia
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