Quilled Tricycle with Flower Basket

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We badly wanted to make a tricycle using old CDs and container for really long time but somehow we kept delaying it for some reason one of which is that we didn't find the right container for it. We had gone through an umpteen number of videos for the same all these years. When IQGC posted the colours for this month's challenge, we went through a lot of options until we settled on this. 

Simple pleasures

If you love quilling, then you can check the following projects for some inspiration:

Quilled Owl keychain

Quilled wall hanging

Quilled earring

We initially thought of making the basket using tight coils but we didn't have 5mm quilling strips with us. We usually prefer using 3mm strips for the projects we have been making so far and using them to make basket would mean making a number of coils to achieve the same height that one could easily do with half the number of 5mm strips. So we had to think of plan B wherein we decided to stick beehive swirls around a paper cup and turn it into a basket. Again this time we were greeted with a challenge in the form of not having any paper cup around to be used.

Assembling the wheels

 When we almost thought of dropping the idea of making the basket tricycle, we decided to make our own paper basket using weaving technique but it did not please us much so we had to think of yet another option. But this time, we were determined that nothing could stop us from making a tricycle and we were pondering over other possibilities. Then we came across quilled tendrils which we had previously seen in DT member Sini's inspiration post for one of the previous challenges. We thought of putting this technique to make basket although we were a bit skeptical in the beginning. We terribly failed in the first few attempts but we knew we were not going to give up. We tried it a couple of times until we became comfortable with this technique. And we did make one basket with it sticking it over a piece of paper and then forming a cylinder and pasting it over a circle paper as the base. You won’t understand the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment we got on completing the basket. 

Having fun clicking pics (time to relax)

After we finished making the tight and loose coils, we started assembling it all together to form wheels and handle. Now came the next challenge-  gluing everything in place. It drove us crazy and took lot of time to fit perfectly in place without slipping off. We had to hold it chance by chance for some time until it began to settle. Whoa! What a relief! 

Quiilled tricycle

But the moment we saw the whole project with those charming and blooming flowers, all our tension just evaporated into the air and we felt so pleased with ourselves. 

Beauty in bloom

Ah! There it is.... finally

 What you see now is not just the result of hours of hard work, but also hours of pondering on the perfect technique catered to our needs and within our limitations.

We are entering this Quilled Tricycle into the following challenges:

1. IQCG#49



2. CHALLENGE #6- ANYTHING GOES

3. Close to Nature Challenge

4. CHALLENGE 205 Theme Anything goes

5. CHALLENGE #86- Always Anything Goes

6. CHALLENGE 49 Theme Anything Goes

7. July Challenge - Anything Goes

8. Challenge Weeks #344-#345 - Anything Goes

9. CHALLENGE 72 As always our challenge is anything goes

10. Challenge #371 - Anything Goes

11. TTCRD Anything goes challenge, week of July 24

12. Week 476/477 - Flowers all over

13. MIUCB #15 - Anything Goes + Mixed Media

14. LTCCB #24 - July Anything Goes

15. Ch. #140-No Pattern Paper

16. Cookie Challenge #99

17. Challenge 76

18. Challenge 41

19. Challenge 149 -Anything Goes, the optional twist -shaker card

20. July Anything Goes Challenge

Let us know what you think about this 3-D quilled project.

Thanks for stopping by

Hope you like it,
Chandhini & Subhashini