A unique and fun baby shower gift for your special mom-to-be! It looks like a beautiful bouquet of flowers but these are made of a baby socks! This is sure to be a hit at your baby shower!
Baby sock bouquets are easy to make, but they do take a bit of time. The first flower will take longer but the rest will go much faster. So get your supplies, grab a friend and let's get this bouquet started!
This is a list of materials you will need:
• Green floral tape
• Green floral wire
• Baby socks of your preferred color(s) (you'll need 6 pairs, if you want to make a dozen)
• Wire cutters
• A flower vase
• Some extra greenery as filler around the "flowers" (baby's breath, or leaves, from a craft store)
Step 1: Lay out the baby sock. Be sure to use baby socks and not baby booties.
Baby booties are too long to form a good flower bud.
Step 2: Fold the toe of the sock upwards. Don't roll the sock too tightly or too loose.
Roll the base of the sock up so that it is parallel to the opening of the sock.
Then slightly angle the toe of the sock upwards, toward the opening.
Step 3: Make a second roll. Keep your rolls fairly tight, but don't overly
tug or stretch the sock while rolling it up.
Step 4: Make a third roll similar to the second. Most baby sock flowers
require only 3 rolls. When you make your last roll, make sure to leave a little
bit of unrolled sock by the opening (as in photo).
Step 5: Now, while holding the rolls together with one hand, take the opening
of the sock with the other hand and begin to open the sock (inside out) around the rolls.
Step 6: Continue wrapping the opening of the sock around the rolls until you
have wrapped the opening about half-way up the the length of the rolls.
As a second part to this step, pull the flower bud straight, and adjust the opening
(that you wrapped around the sock) so that it looks even.
Step 7: To make the flower look more like an blooming blossom, pull the inner
part of the sock out from the top of the blossom.
Step 8: Take the floral wire and cut about 12 to 16 inches off for each stem,
using the wire cutters. Then, with your fingers, bend the wire back and forth,
making little bends in the stem. This makes for a more substantial looking
stem after you wrap it with floral tape (as you will see in a later step).
9: Place the wire stem into the bottom opening of the baby sock flower. Place
it as high up the sock as you can go, without it poking through the top of the sock.
An inch is a good distance.
Step 10: Take the floral tape and begin wrapping the sock flower fairly high
up the base of the flower. If you don't begin high enough, the compression of
the tape will push the rest of the flower out of the base and it will fall apart.
So begin high, and wrap very tightly, being careful not to disturb the blossom.
The floral tape will stick to itself when you start to overlap layers of tape.
As you wrap around the base, begin to wind the floral tape downward
towards the stem. (Sometimes it helps to take the stem out as you begin
wrapping the tape, but place the stem in before you go too far).
Step 11: Continue wrapping the base of the flower with the floral tape
and continue down the wire stem. It helps to spin the flower by the
already-wrapped base rather than spinning it by the already-wrapped stem
(because the floral tape on the stem will begin to unravel).
Step 12: Continue wrapping the stem all the way to the bottom, cut the tape and
Presto! You have your first baby sock flower!!!!!
Now, using the instructions above, make as many flowers as you want for your baby sock flower bouquet. A bouquet of a dozen flowers looks great, BUT smaller bouquets look fine too. I would start with a bouquet with 6 flowers and work up to a dozen if time permits. Once you've created 2 or 3 flowers, the rest take much less time.
Step 13: Arrange the baby sock flowers in vase, and add additional greenery to complete the bouquet (Baby's breath looks espeically nice) This sample bouquet includes leaves and a sprinkling of small white flowers to fill the vase. You can add just enough to fill the vase and make it look more realistic or get creative and add other floral or curreled ribbon or other gift wrap decor.
Now your baby sock flower bouquet is ready to give the mom-to-be or as the centerpiece at the baby shower. Enjoy!
