Quilled bride free tutorial

Here comes the bride…my first 3D figure! 

Here’s how it's done – sorry as this was one of my first attempts I did not take pictures in progress, but will try to do that for my other posts.

I made 7 tight coils in total: 

For the dress: 3 coils in 3mm strips, white.

Sleeves/arms : 2 coils in 2mm, white (Slightly smaller than the coils for the dress)

Face/head: 2 coils 2mm, skin coloured.

6 Roses: 3 pink, one cream and 2 purple pearlised, 2mm.

The dress: Make cones out of the larger coils. One cone is slightly bigger/longer. The other two need to be more dome-like. Try to keep them the same size. Brush the inside of the cones with glue to keep them from uncoiling.

Glue the open ends of the smaller domes together. Leave to dry. Then attach the two joined ones to the cone. Here is a pix of how it's attached...with one arm. You can see the two domes attached on top and the cone at the bottom. 

Make the arms from the smaller coils. Attach arms to the sides.

The head is made from two domes using skin coloured strips.  

Hair was made with loosely coiled strips. 

Glue one end of hair (loosely coiled strips) to the inside of one dome for the back. Do the same thing with the other dome using shorter strips for the fringe. 

When it’s dry attach both parts of the head on the open sides. 

The  ends that are glued to the inside of the dome will now be hidden with just the 'hair' hanging down. 

Make the flowers and attach 3 to head (try and do this so that the attached part of the two domes is hidden).

Arrange the other 3 flowers and attach to one hand. I cheated and glued them to the front of the dress as well.

I also wrapped a little belt with a bow around the dress to hide the attached bit in the middle. 

There we are. All done! Your quilled bride is ready to walk down the aisle :)

If you try this method I would love to hear your feedback and comments. Thanks. 

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