When I started exploring this crafty side of me I happened
to visit the craft store and found these quilling supplies and decided to try
it out. So this post is my experience with the art of paper quilling. I had
first gotten a kit which had all the tools for a beginner. With this kit I
started out by making some basic designs and greeting cards.
Most of the above is pretty basic. I was mainly
experimenting with the shapes and tools and such. To get a better idea on the
basics (I am not going to get into it) you can google for the paper quilling
techniques and you will get plenty of links from which I also learnt.
Some of the tools I got along with the initial quilling kit.
But most of the other tools I have collected since then during my regular trips
to the craft shop.
Each of the above tools are required for some or the other
process of quilling. The slotted quilling tool is the absolute must. It helps
to coil the quilling paper strips (not in picture) into coils for various
purposes. With the quilling tool you normally end up with a tight coil. If you
use the ring coil tool you will end up with a hollow kind of coil, the size of
which depends on the part of the tool chosen to coil around. The quilling board
helps in loosening the tighter coils into required sizes. This is especially
helpful if you need uniform sizes of coils. The crimping tool gives a zig zag
kind of texture to the quilling paper which adds on to the look when required.
And the combing tool can be used to make leaves or such. The quilling moulds
come in handy when domes are required. The main purpose of the tweezers is to
handle the delicate pieces better.
For the rest of the post I would love to share some of the
work I have done with the quilling techniques. I have made both 2D figures as
well as some 3D objects. And this is just the beginning. I am going to add on
to these and will keep updating the post whenever I do or write other posts if
I have plenty of more designs in the future. So here I will discuss the 2D ones
first.
2 Dimensional Quilled Objects
Peacock:
There are so many different shapes in this picture that it
would be a long list to explain individually. To summarize it all I made the
head first with the tight coils of yellow, white and black and then a loose
blue coil around it. Then the curls on top of the head with 3 tiny tight coils
of blue paper. The beak is made with a black strip coiled and then shaped into
a triangle like structure with a curve on two of the sides. For the body of the
peacock I have used a few different shades of blue with different shapes. Some
of the shapes are tear drops, marquis, crescent and triangle shapes. The main
part of the peacock which requires a lot of patience is the feathers. I have
used four different colours of strips, two of which are coiled tightly and two
of the others are loosely shaped into tear drops and marquis shapes around
these. To finish off I made the legs with some light yellow shade of paper. I
have used 10 mm strips for the peacock.
Fish:
I used 10 mm quilling strips for the fish as well. I first
made the eyes with tight coils of black and white. I then kept this aside until
I finished the face. I made two tear drops with the cream colour and stuck
these together to form a heart shaped structure. To the top teardrop I stuck
the eye in the centre. I then made the rest of the face with different shapes
and shades of cream. I attached the lips in a red shade. I used a yellow-green
shade of colour and made loose circular coils. I stuck four of these around one
side of the face. To this I covered with the dark green crescent shapes. I made
several layers of these to fill the shape of the fish body. Since I found the
central parts empty I filled this with tight coils made with yellow and orange.
For the back fins I made some tight coils with two different shades in each
coil. I made the boundary with red crescent shapes. For the top and bottom side
fins I used crescent and S shapes of few different sizes with red and yellow
colours and stuck these together.
Basically from the above two descriptions, you can summarize
that I basically had particular shapes of the parts in mind and filled these
shapes with different quilling techniques. I would also like to note that I had
images from the internet as reference. I made two more things, an owl and a
butterfly. Pictures below
3 Dimensional Quilled Objects
Motorbikes
I found this image of the quilled bike on Pinterest. And I
tried to model mine along the same lines. The picture was not too clear but
somehow I managed to make two of these. Though both are slightly different. I
made the yellow and red one first. But when I finished that I felt that maybe I
had mixed up a bit so re- did another one with the blue theme. Basically, you
start from the wheels. That’s quite a lot of white strips and a few dark blue
strips tightly coiled together. The guard (I’m not sure about the correct bike
vocabulary sorry) is made with a light blue crescent shaped coil. From here you
just keep building the structure with each part stuck to the previous one, the
seat is stuck to the back wheel, the front part another teardrop shape stuck to
this. Then I added the pieces below the seat with different shapes such that
the part right in front is stuck to the front wheel. I then added the tight
coils to the sides of the wheels and the front part and stuck the handle bar to
them. It is a bit difficult to explain with respect to each part. But since I
followed a picture from pinterest (which was a really bad quality picture) I am
sure my fellow quillers reading this post will be able to shape their bikes
from this image. And considering that I am a beginner, experienced quillers
might do a much better job at this.
Cycle:
Again, I modelled this on the image I found on Pinterest.
This one is a bit difficult because the original post was not too clear. So as
I went on making these I realized that something or the other had gone wrong.
Mainly, the wheels had to be bigger. This one looks more like an exercise cycle
with wheels. If not for the wheels being bigger, maybe I could have used one
less vertical white coil near the handle bar. The front part of the cycle is
more or less correct. For the back another idea is to make two bottom rungs of
the triangular part and stick it such that one is on each side of the back
wheel. My stand is also wrong because I did not have the bottom rung on the two
sides of the wheel. Because of this the chain at the back is stuck to the stand
(which would be physically impossible to ride in a real cycle). However,
mistakes aside, I am still very proud of my cute little cycle. You will need
lots and lots of tubes for the same and it is a very delicate structure. The
cycle can stand on its own but at the same time it sways with the fan and falls
down. So its better kept against something. I have used 5 mm strips for this
model.
Minion:
I got this idea from a youtube tutorial. Although mine is a
bit different. The original had tight coils put one on top of the other.
Perhaps that would have been more solid but mine is more hollow inside. I
wanted to save paper to be honest. And I feel the ultimate result is pretty
awesome either way.
I used the ring coil tool for the different layers, and I
used the coil size uniform to all of these. I made 3 such coils for the yellow
and two for the blue (The second blue coil was a 2.5 mm size and all others
used 5 mm strips). For the final layers of both colours I used the slotted
quilling tool and made a tight coil until it was the same size as the hollow
coils. I then used the quilling moulds to form the slight dome like structure.
The yellow piece has a bigger dome than the blue. I then stuck these pieces
together as shown in the picture. A tip I learnt for the first time was then to
brush a layer of fevicol in the inner side of these yellow and blue structures.
This way it holds its form and then I could stick the yellow and blue pieces
together. I then made the eye part. I used black strip to coil around to make
the glasses. And for the front portion I made a tight coil with black, brown,
white and grey colours. I then stuck the overalls with blue strips. To
highlight the layers of the overalls I drew a boundary for each part with a
black sketch pen and also made a smile for the minion with this. For the hands
I used the slotted quilling tool to coil yellow strips. As I was coiling I was
moving the strips upwards to form the hands. I flattened this and stuck it to
the sides of the main part of the minion. To the other end of the hand I stuck
a tightly coiled black strip. For the legs, I used two blue tight coils and for
the shoes a darker blue coil stuck horizontally.
Cake:
This was the easiest of all the 3 D designs in this blog. I
cut white paper into strips of 3 different sizes (random sizes, not measured).
I then made tight coils with these to form the 3 layers of cake. I then used
the orange and red strips of paper to decorate the sides and the top. You can
get creative with this and use any way to design the sides. You could also use
craft papers of different colours instead of white if you have that handy.
Rose flower pot:
I used 10 mm strips for this design. To make the rose I used
the pink strip and the slotted quilling tool. As I was coiling the paper, I
kept folding the paper in 90 degrees to make the petals of the rose till I
reached the end of the paper. You can find youtube tutorials for this like I
did. I made a five sided green leafy structure to stick below this. I used
individual strips and stuck it together. You can also use a big green paper and
cut out the shape.
For the stalk I used an opened paper clip and wrapped this
with green paper. For the pot I used brown paper and made a tight coil. I then
pushed it out to form a pot and applied glue inside till it dries so it holds
form. I wrapped a white strip on the top of the pot just as a design. I made a
loose coil with brown paper which would just fit inside the pot and stuck it
inside. I stuck the rose inside of this between the coils. I made small strips
of green and coiled them differently and stuck them to the brown coil (like the
soil).
So that’s about it for this post. I know I have not been too
detailed in explaining. But since I followed pictures and tried to mimic them I
find it a bit difficult in explaining the method using proper jargon. But I
hope you like my post and the quilled stuff I made. Do let me know which was
your favourite of all. Also, if you have a suggestion for any 3D image you would like me to try quilling do let me know and I can try it out (if possible). Cheers!
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