Continuation of the theme of what the floral decor is made of. Believe it or not, from newspapers, old jeans. Learn how to make DIY flower stands. Flowers look even better in beautiful pots. Create beauty with your own hands from waste material, you will certainly succeed!
Wicker pots for flowers master class
See how beautiful the design of the pot is made from newspapers.
To weave this, take:
- newspapers;
- thin knitting needle;
- scissors;
- paint;
- glue;
- a string or elastic band.
In this way, you can arrange any old or plastic pots. Lay the newspaper in front of you, cut it horizontally into 4 pieces.
Starting from the corner, use knitting needles to twist the newspaper into a tube, glue the remaining free corner.
Remove the knitting needle and make many more of these tubes.
One side of the tubes is wider. This will help us build up the elements. Take 2 tubes, insert the thin edge of one into the hole of the other.
We take 3 tubes, place them vertically. We intertwine with four horizontal ones, placing the turns in a checkerboard pattern.
Take the outermost tube, braid it in a circle.
We weave from the newspapers further. Place the bottom of the container on the resulting circle. If the size suits, then go to the side parts.
Build up the beams, raise them by tying them with a rope or elastic band.
After 3-4 rows, it can be removed.
When there is enough height, starting from the first tube, remove them all inside the container, winding each ray behind the next one.
Here's how to weave from newspaper tubes in the final step. Tuck each beam between the horizontal loops.
It remains to cover the outside of the planter with spray paint, let it dry and place the flower.
By the same principle, not only wicker baskets are made, but also pots from this material. Willow twigs bend well. Clean them of foliage and get started.
You can cover the finished work not with dark, but with light paint, and when it dries up, create such interesting flowers in other shades.
If the branches are not freshly harvested, soak them for a day in hot water, adding salt, then they will regain plasticity. To decorate the product with different patterns, see how they are done.
The wicker vine can be done this way. See how many ways there are to decorate pots with such natural material.
And the main weaving can be like this.
If you make several flower pots using this technique, then you will have a whole set. Such pots are placed both at home and in the garden, as they are not afraid of precipitation.
Decorations for home flowers from old jeans
Those who ripped open these garments in order to sew something useful from already unnecessary trousers know how difficult it is. It is easier to cut solid panels with scissors, but this leaves a lot of seam areas. Put them into action too. Now you will learn how you can make a fashionable planter out of old jeans (from stitched ribbons).
Place a small pot with a plant in this fabric frame. Moreover, it must be without a hole for water drainage. It is enough to pour down a pot of expanded clay, and add a few grains of hydrogel to the soil, and the earth will always be wet.
If you have a container with a drainage hole, do not make a bottom in the planter. Here's what you need to create it:
- stripes of jeans with decorative stitching;
- thick cardboard tube;
- hacksaw;
- cardboard, a piece of jeans, glue (if the planter is with a bottom);
- furniture stapler;
- masking tape;
- colored cardboard.
When changing linoleum, do not throw away the cardboard tube on which the new one is screwed. This can be asked from the seller of oilcloths, greenhouse films, vapor barrier in a roll. The master class will tell you how to turn old jeans into a fabric pots right now. After you asked your friends, the seller, or found such a pipe in your stocks, you need to saw off a piece of the required length from it. It should be such that the pot placed in the planter looks out from above by 5–7 mm. In the measured place, wind the tape around the cardboard tube in a circle, cut it off.
If the height of the cardboard tube is 10 cm, then you will need 16 strips of 13-15 cm and horizontal strips of 43-45 cm (one seam along the leg is enough for 2 such strips).
To make flower pots with fabric framing, we attach short strips vertically with a styler in 1 cm increments.
Now, pulling the vertical strips, we braid the pots horizontally. Place the elements of the jeans as close to each other as possible.
Staple together both ends of each horizontal section with a staple underneath the vertical to cover that section.
Finish the weaving, reaching the top of the planter, cut off the excess.
This is how you need and can from old jeans, namely, weave the side parts from jeans scraps to frame a container with a flower. If she is with the bottom, then she starts this stage immediately.
Two circles need to be cut out of cardboard: the smaller one along the inner radius of the pipe, and the larger one along the outer one. We cut out circles from denim patches along them, leaving an allowance for the hem.
Lay each of these patterns on pieces of jeans, outline, cut with an allowance. Fold up the jeans on all sides, gluing them to the edges of the cardboard blanks.
Glue the large circle to the outside and the small to the inside of the pipe. Cut a strip out of jeans and glue the planter to the top. Place a weight on top to adhere the parts. After that, you can put a pot with a plant inside. If you are afraid to wet the pots, then place an artificial flower or, for example, a topiary.
Here's what else you can make with old pants. How do you like these pots?
To do them, take:
- unnecessary denim thing;
- threads with a needle;
- the remains of the braid;
- buttons.
Then follow the instructions:
- If it's jeans, cut off a section of the leg. Stitch at the bottom.
- Until, without turning the workpiece over your face, sew two corners - one at the beginning, the other at the end of the line. The corners will be perpendicular to it.
- Turn the soft planter to the front side, bend it 5 cm from above.
- You can sew on the top with braid or make white stitches with a thread and a needle, sew on a button, lace or other elements of textile decor.
If you have a denim skirt, vest, then first cut out a rectangular canvas from them, and then stitch it from the sides and bottom. Such a decor of flower pots is within the power of even those who first took a needle in their hand. It is stylish and modern. Of course, you can buy flower pots if the old ones cease to please you or are made in different styles, but this is easy to fix without resorting to monetary costs. See how elegant these pots look like. Sew several in the same style, and you will have a set of flower pots, made in the same color scheme.
Proceed if you have the following materials at hand:
- unnecessary denim;
- lace braid;
- bead or artificial pearl for decoration.
Everything is done very simply:
- Measure the pot.
- Cut the canvas out of jeans: its height is equal to the height of the flower container, and its length is equal to the volume of the pot at its widest point. Remember to make seam allowances.
- Tuck the top, attach the tape, stitch it on. Decorate the bottom in the same way.
- Now fold the sides and stitch them.
- To decorate the flowerpot, tie a piece of tape with a basting stitch on a string. In this case, the needle goes along the lower edge of the tape. Tighten the thread, make 2 knots.
- Without breaking the thread, thread an imitation pearl or bead into the needle and sew. Make 2 knots on the wrong side, cut the thread.
- Sew several of these flowers from the braid and decorate the planters with them.
Here's how to make flower pots a makeover so that they play in a new light and delight those who come to your home.
If you've created a large piece and you have a lot of scraps left over from your old jeans, don't throw them away. Cut into strips of equal width. Braid your braids using two or three strips. Next, we spread the pot with PVA glue and wrap it in pigtails in a circle, gluing those.
DIY flower stand
This question arises for those who love plants and are thinking how to place several pots in a small space.
The first and second options will now be considered. If you are attracted by a wrought iron stand in which low flowers will grow, then look at this one.
But this is not cheap. Therefore, you can make an analogue by taking an old tricycle that was lying around in the country, transforming it. To do this, it is enough to cover it with gold paint from a spray can, weave a hanging planter, put it on the steering wheel. The second pot is attached to the seat with self-tapping screws. Then the earth is poured and the plant is planted.
To ensure that the paint runs smoothly and does not drip, first prime the surface. It will dry quickly, then paint it. If you want to have a flower stand decorated with flowers on the balcony or in the country, then pay attention to this. Ampel plants will hang down and decorate the pots with their bright blossoming buds.
But if you find it expensive to buy a floor stand for flowers, you can easily make it yourself. This will require different sized pots. If they don't look good, paint them a single color.
When the coating is dry, place the largest pot down, a little smaller on it, and so on in descending order. Remember to fill the containers with earth immediately. You just have to water the soil and plant ampel flowers along the edge of the pots.
See what wood flower stands you can also make yourself.
It is easy to turn a stepladder into the first one. It is enough to fix 3 transverse shelves made of painted boards or plywood with self-tapping screws, and the stand is ready.
For the second, you will need:
- trimming boards;
- saw;
- nails;
- hammer;
- antiseptic for wood.
First, we cover the boards with 2-3 layers of antiseptic impregnation, letting each dry. Cut off 4 identical boards, turn each set into a quadrangle.
It remains to assemble the pyramid, placing it on large smaller boxes. We place each one with a turn, so that the corners of the upper are in the middle of the boards of the lower square. Step by step we fill the boxes with earth and plant flowers.
If you have drawers left from the old table, cabinet, tear off the bottom, and the walls are an almost finished wooden stand for flowers. The third stand is also made of wood. Used for her:
- thick and thin branches;
- saw;
- sandpaper;
- twine;
- white acrylic paint;
- brush.
Then follow the step-by-step instructions:
- From the trunk of a thin tree or from a thick part of a branch, you need to saw off 6 blanks - 4 large and 2 small. These are the vertical stands of the flower girl.
- From branches of medium thickness, saw 4 large and 4 small workpieces - these are horizontal holders.
- If there is bark on these elements, remove it with a knife, then go over with fine sandpaper.
- Use self-tapping screws to connect vertical to horizontal parts. You will have a base that looks like a 2-step ladder.
- To make "steps", saw off equal segments from thin branches, connect them with twine, tying that figure eight.
- Paint the flower girl with acrylic paint and let it dry.
- Place the first and second mats in place.
It remains to put pots of flowers and admire your creation. Green harmonizes with white, and if you do not want to often water the flowers, then succulents will come in handy here, including cacti. If they need to be transplanted into a slightly larger pot, you are rightly afraid of injections, use one of three tricks to prevent this. But before transplanting, do not water the soil so that the earthy clod comes out well from the container, and the roots of the plant are not damaged.
- Take 2 rectangular pieces of styrofoam, place them over the cactus "house", press. Knock on the pot, pick up the succulent and transplant into a new pot.
- Wire the cactus just above ground level. Twist to make a loop. Lift the plant by the loose ends of the wire and repot.
- If you have no wire or foam, get a newspaper with several sheets of paper. Also, first tap on the pot so that the earthy ball can be removed freely. Place it on the cactus as if hugging it.
And here is another idea of how you can use an old stepladder to make a do-it-yourself flower stand.
The emphasis is placed not only on flowers, but also on the shoe in which they grow, the birdhouse, the wheel. These items will give the flower girl a touch of antiquity, beating a new kind of staircase. Moreover, it does not even have to be painted.
Concluding the story about how flower stands are made of wood, I would like to demonstrate another option. For him, it is enough to arrange 2 birch trees crosswise, fix it, and nail transverse parts made of the same material onto one, the other half of the resulting goat. Place the plants in the center, and you get a tree stand made of natural material, the flowers on which will look very picturesque.
If you have patience, you can make a decorating planter out of cones. To do this, you need to break off the scales, grease the pot with glue and attach them in rows up or down with a bend.
How to make a planter from an old plate?
This is how it will turn out.
In order for the old plate to turn into a planter, you need:
- vinyl record;
- twine;
- electric stove;
- mittens;
- object to be molded.
We make in the following order:
- Pass the rope through the hole in the plate, tie a knot to secure the structure.
- With gloved hands, lift the plate 25–30 cm above the switched on tile.
- When the vinyl disc becomes pliable, shape it or place it on an object of a suitable size, fold the sides with shuttlecocks. It is best to put it on the pot for which you are making the planter.
Here are some pretty plant frames you can make. And to make the desire to create beauty with your own hands even stronger, we suggest plunging into the atmosphere of contemplation and watching video selections:
