DIY Felt Succulents Series – #2 Star Succulent

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We are in week 2 of The Crafty Lefty’s Felt Succulent Series.  That means another DIY tutorial with free patterns and video tutorials on how to create your own felt succulents!!

We know that these felt succulents are EVERYWHERE these days, but sometimes it’s hard to find free patterns or the instructions they come with can be a little confusing.  That’s why I’ve created 5 tutorials on how to craft 5 different felt succulents.  I’ve done all the research and trouble-shooting and experimenting FOR you. 

All you have to do is stay-tuned to The Crafty Lefty’s DIY Felt Succulents Series to learn how to make these 5 different felt succulents with FREE patterns.  Yeah, you read that right.  There are so many free felt succulent patterns out there made by totally awesome craft bloggers.  So instead of re-inventing the wheel, I’ve linked directly to their site so you can grab the free pattern from them (and check out their super cute crafts)! 

New to the Crafty Lefty’s Felt Succulent Series?  Don’t forget to check out the rest of the DIY tutorials below:

1. Rose Succulent

Now on to our second felt succulent: the star succulent from Hallmark.  Yeah, I know.  I was like, Hallmark is making free felt succulent patterns now?  But I didn’t waste time thinking about that too much, and just grabbed their super cute (and super free!) succulent patterns. 

Prefer watching over reading?  No problem!  Click here to watch the DIY video tutorial.

Supplies:  All you’ll need for this star succulent is felt (either stiff or soft, in whatever color you like), fabric scissors (or any sharp scissors), straight pins, hot glue, and the printed hallmark pattern, found here.

1.  First cut out the 3 petal shapes from the pattern, and pin them to your felt.  Hallmark offers 4 different ways to use these shapes to make their star succulents: mini, small, medium, and large.  I decided to make the largest star succulent, which means I needed to cut more petal shapes from my felt. 

2.  Once all of your petal shapes have been cut, organize them by size and fire up that hot glue gun.

3.  For each one of these petal shapes, you’ll first be folding and gluing them at an off-set with a hot glue gun.  That means, not exactly in half, but staggered.  Please see the image below as an example of how I folded the smallest petal shape for the star succulent.

4.  Once you have glued both of your smallest petal shapes at an offset, you’ll be folding and gluing them to create the middle portion of your star succulent.  Here’s how: You will apply glue to the inside bottom edge of your petal, starting at one end and working your way to the end. 

5.  Then, roll the felt over the hot glue to create a rosette.  Take your second off-set smallest petal shape, and roll your rosette over that second petal.  Now, your rosette will look a bit bigger, like this:

6.  Next, you will add your medium sized petals.  You will do the same, and fold and hot glue each one of them at an off-set.  Once you have placed a line of glue along the bottom of one of those medium sized petals, you will take your rosette, seam side down, and lay it flat against your medium-sized petal.  Roll the rosette over the medium-sized petal to create an even bigger rosette.  Continue rolling and gluing until you have used all of your medium sized petals.

7.  Now on to your last layer — the largest petal size.  Go ahead and glue all of your 7 petals at an offset first.  Then, take the rosette you’ve created so far, and glue your folded petals all around (as you did with the medium petal size).  At some point, instead of putting glue on the felt piece and then rolling the rosette, it might make more sense to add the hot glue to the rosette itself, and then press the felt piece to the rosette.  Please see the image below. 

8.  …and that’s it!  This is what your final star succulent should look like!

Let me know in the comments how you liked this pattern.  And stay tuned for more DIY Felt Succulent Tutorials for the next several weeks!  I’ll also be adding 5 unique ways to use felt succulents in your home that you won’t want to miss either!