#litha tutorial

Hello everyone!!! Litha is coming up and to celebrate, I’ve made a flower crown!! It’s fairly easy to make and easily customizable so I thought I’d share a tutorial with everyone since it’s a lot easier than it looks! Whether it’s for Litha, a different holiday, or even just for fun, I hope this tutorial is helpful for you. Here’s what the finished product looks like!

If you want to make one exactly like mine, here are the materials that you’ll need:

-2 pieces of wire

-electrical tape (or any kind of tape that won’t create a goopy mess- I used black)

-3 different colors of ribbon (I used super thin ribbon in pink, white, and yellow)

-5 types of (fake) flowers. For this particular crown, I chose pink, orange, white, purple and blue. The specific flowers I got were; Hyacinth (blue), Roses (orange/peach), Peonies (white), Lilies (pink) and Iris (purple)

-Scissors or wire cutters

Obviously you can substitute the colors, flowers and materials as needed- make it your own!!! The whole point is to have fun while making something awesome.

Some helpful hints:

-Get the flowers at Dollar Tree. $1 for a bunch of 5-6 flowers and they have a huge selection!

-I got the electrical tape at Home Depot. I believe it was around $1.50 and there were tons of colors.

-You can find the wire and ribbon at your local craft store. I got the ribbon for $.79 at Michaels, and there was a huge sale going on so it was even cheaper. The ribbon is super thin which is perfect for this project.

-If possible, use wire cutters to cut the flower stems as there is hard plastic and a thin wire. It’s possible not to (I didn’t), but if you can save your hands some pain and struggling you might as well :)

-If you don’t want to make a crown but still want to make something with flowers feel free to hang this up as a wreath!

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Throughout making this flower crown, clear your head and think of summer and infuse your flowers with thoughts of the sun. If it helps, burn some incense, play some calming music, or say a spell while your flower crown is coming along. This is a time of protection and joy so envision these things as you work on your crown.

Now without further ado, let’s make our flower crowns!!

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Start off with your two wires. You can either measure your head or eyeball it to get the correct size. If you plan on wearing anything bulky, like a hat or an intricate hairstyle, add a few inches or measure with it on. You don’t want your headpiece to be too small. I personally eyeballed it and checked it to my head before twisting the wires together. I made it a little loose (not too much) but enough to where it would stay on my head by itself.

As you can see, the shape doesn’t need to be perfect. As long as it’s in the general shape it will be fine. At this point you’ll want to take a small piece of tape, about 4 inches long (you don’t have to measure it) and wrap it tightly around the part where the wires are twisted together. You’ll eventually want to cover the entire wire in the tape, but do it in chunks so it’s easier and more manageable.

Once again, it doesn’t have to be perfect. This is just giving a base we can attach the flowers to. At this point, you’ll want to have the entire circle covered in tape. There shouldn’t be any kind of sticky residue anywhere, and you don’t want any pieces of tape ends sticking out. Nothing’s worse than getting sticky residue in your hair or on your clothes :(. At this point, set the circle down for a few minutes while we prep the flowers.

As stated earlier, if you have wire cutters this part will be slightly easier, but if not you’ll be 100% fine. Separate each flower and cut as far down as you can to leave a long stem. This will also account for any errors where the plastic and/or wire metal refuses to cooperate. Decide if you want to leave the leaves on or if you just want flowers. Personally, I like the look of leaves so I left them on the stems. There should be one leaf part to each flower, sometimes two depending on the type. Here is where you’ll decide if you want a specific pattern or how you want to add the flowers. I just did what I felt was right and looked the best, and went one flower type at a time. (All the roses first, then lilies, etc). There is no right or wrong way to decide on a pattern!!

At this point, I cut my three pieces of ribbon. I went flower by flower so I cut all the ribbon as I went along. I color coded it so pink was by the base of the flower, yellow was under the leaf, and white was at the end of the stem. You’ll want to double knot it tightly in the three different locations. Once again, there is no right or wrong way to do this as long as you feel it looks good and the flower won’t come off.

As you can see, you want all the flowers to go in the same direction. This is important. If you put them going different directions, the flowers will squish and clash and you’ll get frustrated trying to tie down flowers that are fighting you.

As you go along adding flowers, make sure to keep tying the previous ribbons in. This part is hard to explain but basically you’ll end up wanting the ribbons to be flat against the circle just like the stems. This will help make everything look neat and you won’t have random ribbons hanging every which way. Keep adding flowers how you want.

You can see more of what I’m talking about with the ribbon in this picture. By now your flower crown should be shaping nicely. Keep adding flowers, tying ribbon and shaping your crown. You can obviously stop whenever you feel your crown is complete.

After completing the flower crown, feel free to enchant it with a spell if you haven’t already and want to, or put it in the sun so it can absorb the rays and infuse with the suns energy.