Materials:
twine or hemp
corrugated cardboard to make loom
toothpicks or stick pins
scissors
drafting compass or round object like a glass or cup (to trace on the cardboard)
pencil
needlepoint needles or blunt craft needle with large eye

Directions:
Trace a 2 inch circle on the corrugated cardboard piece using a compass or round object and cut it out with the scissors. Imagine it’s a clock and stick the toothpicks (trim one end of each of the toothpicks to avoid injuries) or pins first at 12 and 6, then at 9 and 3 and go on until you have completed the clock all the way around.

Think of your loom like a clock. Leaving about a 4 inch tail, hold the twine at 7:00. Wrap the twine up to the left side of the pin at 12:00 and wrap over and behind the 12:00 pin, moving from left to right, then wrap straight down to the right side of the pin at 6:00. Wrap the twine behind the 6:00 pin from right to left.

Now wrap your twine back up to the left side of the 11:00 pin, wrapping over/behind the pin from left to right and straight down to the right side of the 5:00 pin, wrapping behind the 5:00 pin from right to left. Continue this pattern until you have one loop around each pin. Continue wrapping around the pins in the same pattern until you have two loops around each pin.

Your final wrap will be back around the 7:00 pin where you started. You will leave the starting tail at the 7:00 pin. On the working end of your twine, cut about a 20 inch length of twine. That's 20 inches from the last wrap on the loom. The amount of twine needed will depend on the thickness of the twine you are using. A thicker twine will require more and a thinner twine would require less. The twine I used is about the thickness of bakers twine. When in doubt, cut a longer piece that you think you might need and then you will know how much to cut for your next flower.

Thread the remaining twine onto the needle. Now you are going to start weaving around the center of the flower. This will secure the flower petals in place and give the decorative stitching around the flower center. You are working from the back of the flower, so you won't see the pretty decorative stitching until the end when you remove your flower from the loom and turn it over.

Move your 7:00 pin so it is now at 12:00. You will start weaving behing the "petal" to the right of your final wrap. So, take your needle and go underneath the 4 strands of twine wrapped around the 1:00 pin and push the needle all the way behind the 5 strands at the 12:00 pin, (the 4 petal strands and your starting strand of twine - this is the only place there will be 5 strands of twine.)

Pull your needle through. For this weaving stitch only leave a little slack in the end of your twine.

The last wrap around the pin is now at the 12:00 position only goes to the center of the flower, so when you take your next weaving stitch with your needle you will secure that half thread in place. Moving to your left, push the needle under all 4 strands of the 12:00 petal plus starting tail and keep pushing it under the 4 strands of the 11:00 petal.

Pull your woven stitches tight, pushing them towards the center of the flower with the tip of your needle. This is the only place where you may need to work with your stitches a little bit to get them nice and tight.

Continue weaving by stitching under the petals, moving to the left in a counter clockwise direction. Please note, now that you are past the starting tail at the 12:00 petal, you will continue going behind two petals each time, but now for a total of 8 strands of twine.

Continue this pattern until you have 2 stitches around each petal, coming back around to where you started. Your last weaving stitch will still go behind 2 petals ~ 8 strands of twine. Pull the working twine on your needle down between the petals and between the stitches to the center of the flower.

Use your needle to weave the end of the thread under the top layer on the center stitches until it seems secure. Use two to three stitches to secure, usually going under about 10 or so threads all together. Start the needle under a thread that is right where I am pulling the thread between the petals and stitching so I don't distort the woven design on the back side of the stitching, which will actually be the front of the flower. After weaving the end of the twine to secure, cut it close to where it is exiting the flower center.

Pull the starting twine to the center and secure it in the same way.

To release the flower from the loom, pull the pins out one at a time to release each petal, then put the pin back in place to be ready to create your next flower.

Leave as is or add further embellishments with decorative buttons.

Use these twine/hemp flowers for barrettes, hats, totes, purses, etc.