DIY Silk Lilies for St Catherine's Day | Making Flowers Using Tools

In this video I am making silk lilies out of white silk using flower tools or irons. I am also mounting my handmade flowers on an alligator hair clip as well as on a straw bandeau hat. White lilies are a symbol of St Catherine; the patron saint of Milliners. Her saint day is coming up on the 25th November.
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→ Techniques I Will Cover ←
Using flower tools
Assembling a DIY silk fabric flower
Mounting a flower on an alligator hair clip
Mounting a flower on a straw bandeau hat base
→ Tools & Materials 1 ←
Plastic tub
Semolina - 1tbsp
Turmeric - 1/2tsp (or aniline powder dye)
Water - 1tsp
Latex glove
Small container with a sealable lid
Millinery wire - 0.4mm
White florist tape
Stamens - 3
Needle and thread
Pliers
PVA craft glue
→ Tools & Materials 2 ←
White silk dupion
Green silk dipion
Jar of water
Jar of silk paint (diluted with some water)
Baking paper
Millinery wire - 0.4mm
Bond-a-web
Iron (medium dry setting)
Very sharp & small scissors
Flower tools - double knife, single knife, rat tail.
Galvanised wire - 1mm
Florist tape
#millinery #hatmaking #flowermaking Please do not produce exact copies of by Ilona Millinery hat designs for your own commercial purposes. This video is intended to teach technique only. You are free to re-create these hat designs for your own use, as long as you do not sell the copies you have created.

[@hrani]

Nobody has commented on the cute cat? What an adorable little creature!

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Thank you so much! She's such a sweetie 😻 and all grown up now! 🐈‍⬛

[@maisonirmgardhouseofirmgar5721]

Semolina and turmeric. Whoever would have thought those would be standard millinery supply? It’s brilliant.

[@glorygloryholeallelujah]

I don’t know why… But I absolutely adore the term *”petal sandwich”!* It sounds both delicate and delicious.🤣❤️

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hello! I'd completely forgotten I had said this 🤣

[@Faeriehood]

Flower making is such a lovely and fascinating art 🤍💛🤍. Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial.

[@moniah9273]

Wow Ilona, you are so talented! Beautiful job!!

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Thank you!

[@sueranbarger5874]

Thank you. Your flowers are so pretty.

[@immaculadeane1914]

Thank you as always for a wonderful tutorial.

[@lilayogaom]

Hi Ilona! This is one of my favourite2023 videos of yours! I love the result and love how you showed how to use the flower tools! ❤

[@kristinaponedelnikova2987]

Илона, прекрасная работа 💛💛💛

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Спасибо! 😊

[@joiedevivre2005]

The hat is lovely! St. Catherine & the Catherinettes would be proud. Used to parade for St. Catherine's Day in New Orleans (in the US), but alas, it fell victim to the pandemic & is no more. Hopeful that it will be resurrected in the future.

[@rl2117]

Catherinettes Celebrations are ancient🥰

[@temitopekukoyi3936]

This is so beautiful, thank you for sharing this😊😇

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

My pleasure 😊

[@ortizle1]

This is such a beautiful piece. You are surely talented.

[@Uchenna_kalu]

Absolutely lovely.

[@angelescantalapiedra238]

They look lovely. Thank you for the demo, Ilona

[@TheMMFamily9]

This is great..thank you

[@biduca100]

Gorgeous hat!!!

[@annlidslot8212]

Hi, So elegant. Yours, Ann

[@firuzanscott2125]

Hi liona This is wonderful video.Where do you get the bondaweb?

[@seviltakavut147]

Ben Türkiye'de yaşıyorum.Saç bandı kumaşı nedir?

[@romildaoliveira2129]

que material vc usa pra tratar o tecido?

[@nikanika1234567]

❤️❤️❤️

[@roxannlegg750]

Ive been desp to create a block for that style headband for myself, but cant afford the wooden blocks. Any suggestions? I love headbands but finding one that fits my odd shaped head is annoying!

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hello Roxann! Yes I have suggestions! And I also notice that you've just joined my Patron, so I will go and give you my suggestions through there. Thank you very much for supporting my work ❤️

[@sarahandrade4898]

Tem link pra compra esse aparelho ?

[@rochelleconnellan2962]

Hey, Is it possible to use 100% silk fabric? Or must it be dupion? 😊

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hi Rochelle, the fabric I use is 100% silk dupion. Silk dupion has the right thickness for this. Something like silk satin would be too floppy. But whatever fabric you choose to use, it must be 100% natural fibre. If it has any polyester in it, it will melt. I hope this helps! 😊

[@rochelleconnellan2962]

@@ByIlonaMillinery thank so much for your response and your tips! 😊

[@IAMGiftbearer]

I'll try the semolina and Turmeric mixture for stamen powder. I have had a hell of a time finding powder from commercial sellers and the one shop from Japan I did find online is charging $33.00 for shipping a $6.00 pack of stamen powder! Ridiculous!

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hello, yes shipping from other countries can be expensive! You can try other dye substances to get a good colour on the semolina like mixing in some liquid dye or food colouring.