How to fold a rose (quilling)

It's amazing how every quiller has her own method to fold a rose. I, too, have some tricks that I've never seen before, either on the Web or in a book. So, please welcome my — yet another — tutorial on making folded roses.
In order to create a rose like one in the picture, you will need a 3/8"-wide (~1 cm), 12"-long (~30 cm) strip of paper, a quilling tool and glue.

Step 1: Insert the end of the paper strip into the slit of your quilling tool.
Step 2: Roll the strip a little onto the quilling tool, making two or three turns. In the photographs I turn the tool counter-clockwise.
Step 3: Bend the strip out and down near the tip of the quilling tool, at an angle of about 110-120 degrees.
Step 4: Roll the the crease a little onto the tool.

Step 5: Make another crease close to the end of the previous one by bending the strip out and down again.
Step 6: Roll the new crease a bit onto the quilling tool.
Step 7: Repeat rolling and folding the strip, creating the rose flower.
Step 8: When you've used up the strip, take the rose off the quilling tool and glue the end of the strip down to the bottom side of the flower.

Step 9: Press the center of the rose down, the rolled end of the strip will peep out from its reverse side.
Step 10: Bend this end and glue it underneath the flower. This will keep it from unfolding.
Step 11: Hold the flower together until the glue dries up. You can see what its reverse side looks like.
Step 12: Now you may use your folded rose for a greeting card, quilled embellishment, etc.
If you want to make a folded rose with a stem, you'll need to fold the flower around a toothpick, a cocktail stick or a piece of wire. The process in this case will be a bit different. You won't have a loose rolled end that you can glue underneath the flower to hold the layers together, so roll the rose directly onto a toothpick instead of a quilling tool. First, glue the end of the paper strip to the toothpick before starting to fold the rose. Then follow steps 2 through 8, except that you'll need to apply some glue between the layers as you go.
Comments
thanks for sharing this tip!
I definitely learnt something new. Step 9 would be useful :)
Hugs
Karuna
А я много лет делаю розы из лент,ткани и т.д.,почему-то мне из этих материалов легче делать.
Лет 10 назад когда я работала в отделе упаковки подарков,клиентам очень нравились такие розы.
Ash..
(http://hastkala-oceanichope.blogspot.com/)
Wishing you a good week!
Barbara Diane
@AshKuku
I used to fold roses with a toothpick when I didn't have a quilling tool. Try cutting a slit at its end. Good luck!
http://baynaturals.blogspot.com
Thanks for posting the tutorial. You have a wonderful website and I always come back here whenever I have quilling problems. Just wanted to check with you if you have any other website as I found your designs elsewhere too. I have posted the link down.
http://my.opera.com/blackeye666/blog/2010/08/31/how-to-fold-a-rose-quilling
Thanks
Jaya
This is a quilling tool, you may try looking for it in crafts stores, ordering on the Internet or making one yourself out of a toothpick, cocktail stick or bamboo skewer, like here.
Thank you for the compliments and for letting me know about that site! Unfortunately, some people don't feel uncomfortable stealing articles and images from other sites. Some just don't know it's illegal.
Thank you for posting these easy to follow instructions on making a rose. I have a few books that I was trying to follow, but just couldn't get it. I finally went to the web and found a few other sites (one a video where you couldn't see the woman's hands or what she was doing), but none of them really helped me until I came upon your site. With your easy to follow instructions, I am now finally able to make beautiful roses. I also looked at some of the other beautiful projects that you and your kids have made. My 5 year old and I are going to have fun creating works of art. She has already played with some of the shapes, but not yet put them on paper. I'm really looking forward to it. Thank you for doing this.
Julie
nice doing of craft
Работы Ваши толкают на творчество немедленное. Хотелось бы что- то сохранить для себя.На общественных началах даю уроки работы с бумагой в воскресной школе детям (оригами, айрис фолдинг, квиллинг..). Дети разного возраста пищат от удовольствия, когда узнают новое. Интернет не под рукой, скачиваю материал заранее и впрок на сайтах, где разрешено. И может быть разрешите мне скопировать основы квиллинга. С уважением , Елена.
have a good day
Josefina
tijerasycuchara.wordpress.com
Regards Inna.
Your work is excellent. Loved your quilling projects
and tips. Your teaching technique is of the best I've come across. Thamk you.
Regards Inna.
Your work is excellent. Loved your quilling projects
and tips. Your teaching technique is of the best I've come across. Thamk you.
http://paperquillingmania.blogspot.in
congratulations
byr
Josefina
tijerasycuchara.wordpress.com