How to make model horse rosettes part 1: Research and materials

Since my rope halter tutorial has proven to be my most popular, and read, blog post I want to do another tutorial so I thought I'd try my hands at making model horse rosettes.

When making a rosette you first and foremost might want to consider what colour you want it to be. Of course you can make your rosette any colour you want for your purpose. But if you want to make rosette for an English setup or just for your barn it might be fun to have rosettes in your country's colours so doing a little research might be good if you don't know it already :)

I've done some research on colours in a few countries. I can't promise that these colours are the absolute correct ones but these are the ones I found when I did my research. Any way these colours aren't set in stone as they might vary with the type of show or the organizers preferences but these are relatively commonly seen from what I gathered when doing research.

	Sweden	Norway	Netherlands	Australia	Canada	United States	U.K
First place	Blue and Yellow	Red, Blue and White	Orange	Blue	Red	Blue	Red
Second place	Blue	Red	Red	Red	Blue	Red	Blue
Third place	Yellow	Blue	White	White	White	Yellow	Yellow
Fourth place	Red	Green	Blue	Green	Yellow	White	Green
Fifth place	Green	Yellow		Yellow	Green	Pink	Pink
Sixth place	White			Brown	Pink	Green	Purple
Seventh place					Purple	Purple	Pale Green
Eight place					Brown	Brown	Tan
Ninth place					Orange	Grey	Brown
Tenth place					Mauve (light purple)	Light blue	Grey

For those countries that doesn't have colours beyond a certain placing they often use the colour of the last rosette, for example if you place seventh or lower you will be awarded a white rosette.

When you've chosen your colour or colours you need to decide on a design for your rosettes/ribbons. If you google show rosettes or show ribbons you will get a lot of pictures and can find a design to use for inspiration.

The materials I used:

Ribbon (I would've preferred to use my 3 mm satin ribbon but unfortunately they are packed away at my father's house where I keep my models so I can't get to it at the moment) 
Paper for the centerpiece and backpiece (sequins can probably be used as well and you can also use them to decorate the centerpiece)
Scissors
Glue

You don't need to types of glue or two pairs of scissors, I just couldn't decide which one to use :)

The ribbons I used was a 3 mm blue and yellow ribbon (it almost seems a little like grossgrain ribbon) and a 6 mm blue, patterned ribbon.

In the next part I will show you how I made my rosettes/ribbons.