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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Large Open Weave Twig Basket

8 April 2011
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I made a basket for my the Easter Parade demonstration that would look natural and even a little wild with sticks and tendrils sticking out. Something the Easter Bunny would weave and carry.

I wove the basket from vine and paper wire.

The green berries are paper covered baubles and the blossoms are dried hydrangea florets.

I filled it with Hot Cross Buns as Favors for the audience. The gifts also contained the Easter Egg Hunt prizes.

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Tutorials

26 July 2011

Wire Tendrils

Curl the wire at irregular intervals to create a natural wire tendril similar to that of a passion fruit plant

6 January 2012

Mossy Twig handbag

Radiate short twigs in a circle to make a moss and twig handbag

1 February 2012

Weaving a diagonal green grass basket

Once you figure out how to do the corners weaving a diagonal shape is actually not that hard to do.

6 March 2012

Glue a round stacked twig platter

Stack and glue tiny twigs to create a round platter

9 April 2025

Nesting a small basket in a clematis vine for a “help yourself” Easter egg display

The dried plant material keeps the vine from flopping over in the vase as it continues to grow and flower and the vine lifts the dried material far above the water to prevent it from spoiling.

27 March 2024

High Rise Twiner Jasmine and Twirling willow Easter mobile

A vertical take on an Easter nest design to craft a spinning mobile decoration.

1 March 2023

Glue an early Spring basket from leftover cherry blossom twigs

After the last petal drops cut the blossom twigs into snippets to craft a basket with.

26 January 2022

Off-cut stem snippet and grass curl basket

Piece together a floral basket that looks delicate AND overgrown.

1 December 2021

Happy twig glow-man proudly showing off it's copper star garland

Craft a twig and foam snowman with an inner glow.

1 December 2021

Hellebores, Foxtail and copper star garland for a happy glow-man

This is the second part of my twig glow-man Tutorial... and probably the easiest garland you can possibly make.

6 October 2021

A quick and easy way to Craft a Twig Basket Using Wire Tendrils

The hardest part of this is actually making the tendrils. From there it's a few twists... and we are done!

15 September 2021

Wire wrap for a shallow container to keep a twig arch armature neatly in place

Wrap a wire around both ends of a shallow container to keep the twigs in place.

2 March 2021

Catch Blossom Petals in a Pussy Willow tray basket

An easy to assemble yourself harvest basket to carry home and display Spring blossoms.

25 November 2020

Contactless gift exchange wreath perfect to double as Santa’s Gift Bag for your front door

Craft a small pouch into a half-and-half wreath so that you can leave... and receive tiny gifts and cards in true Christmas 2020 style .

25 November 2020

Wire Stars

Wrap wire around a cardboard star for a quick three dimensional decoration.

28 October 2020

Vase topped with a Hollow Wreath for Halloween

Create a dimensional wreath by assembling wreath vine to hug around an oblong container.

28 October 2020

Arachnis Gerbera-petal-legicus

The easiest Gerbara disk floret spider... ever!

13 June 2018

Lily grass and cane bubble for a Pitcher plant

Craft a dried cane globe for the armature of the design and then add lily grass to dry in place.

24 May 2017

Chain link wreath weaving

Weave a few small wreaths to connect

24 May 2017

Designing an odd one out wreath

Adding floral material to a wreath design

11 April 2017

A little nest for Easter chocolates that naturally hooks over the edge of a container

Weave a tiny nest with a twig hook so that you can hang it in a design

8 March 2017

Wrap lily grass around bits of vine

Create visual interest by loosely wrapping lily grass around an armature

16 November 2016

Cut a vine wreath into sections to create a cup shaped armature

Cut a coiled vine wreath into sections to create an delicate armature to frame a few perfect chocolate cosmos flowers

16 November 2016

Weaving grass to create a delicate mesh cup armature

I wanted a really delicate, see-through armature to frame my tiny flowers so I wove grass in panels around the vine shape

7 September 2016

Willow flower crown

Loosely weave willow tips to create an ethereal crown

17 August 2016

Hanging Tillandsia

There are many ways to hang your air plants in a design. In this Tutorial I explore three

3 August 2016

Hanging Willow Nest

Bend and weave a nest shape from fresh willow stems

17 February 2016

Stack a Twig Enclosure

Loop and tie a few stacked twigs to create an enclosed floral armature

17 February 2016

Squigly vine twig armature

Loosely entwine vine stems

14 January 2013

Midelino Cane Coil Globe Cup

Weave a loose, round floral art armature

30 May 2012

Drying Hydrangeas: Fast, Flat or Natural

Use all three methods to dry hydrangeas to get three very different textures to use in design work.

Related Designs

9 April 2025

Eggsactly… just like this

The flowers will continue to open around the nest… and the eggs… well surely they will disappear and you will need to replace those before Easter.

27 March 2024

Twiners Gonna Twine

Twining jasmine vine twirl for Easter

1 March 2023

… ish

An early... ish Spring basket glued from blossom twigs

26 January 2022

Carry On

As sturdy as it is delicate basket made from off-cut stems and grass.

1 December 2021

It’s the most… it’s the most... Hap-Hapiest Patina Christmas of all!

This is the second of my Christmas 2021 series of designs. This year in the form of a mini workshop… my Christmas present to you. Craft a three twig sphere snow man to proudly display a festive green garland.

6 October 2021

A good measure of Autumn

A wire and twig permanent display basket with tiny water sources for a few fresh flowers that can be replaced as needed.

15 September 2021

Blowing this way and that

Craft an arch armature to display those early autumn treasures.

3 March 2021

Spring Tray-ning

A Spring basket design for catching falling blossom petals.

25 November 2020

Have yourself a Merry Cellulose Fibre Christmas: Santa’s gift bag wreath

...ok not really that fancy- it’s made from paper pulp. A cardboard box gift bag wreath… really. In the spirit of 2020- I am inspired by the endless stream of cardboard boxes being delivered.