Well… we did it again!

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

Stripping foliage from weaving stems

Remove foliage from stems to weave with

Weaving a twig wreath

For my design I wanted the wreath to look wind blown so I added a few loosely woven twigs into the weave. I also wanted to emphasize the autumn colours so I added a twirling copper wire into the weave

Stretching leaves and foliage into a ringlet curl

Most leaves and foliage can be slightly manipulated to curve or curl.

Weaving Willow spheres

I build up the spheres by weaving willow wreaths and then use those to shape the ball

Tiny Rattan Basket

Weave a thin and delicate rattan basket

Willow Heart Wand

Hanging Willow Nest

Bend and weave a nest shape from fresh willow stems

Willow flower crown

Loosely weave willow tips to create an ethereal crown

Cane and Willow Nest Shaped Basket

Weave a nest for Easter eggs

Mikado Reed drop shaped nest

A sturdy shape made by binding Mikado reeds keeps the thin strands of flax in place.

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.

Mossy Twig handbag

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

Midelino Harvest Moon Basket

This is a great flat and open basket to take outside when “harvesting” your fall leaves, pods and flowers. Who knows, you might even find a ghost pumpkin or three…

Midelino cane coil basket

Weave a hand basket from Midelino cane coils

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.

High Rise Twiner Jasmine and Twirling willow Easter mobile

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

Knot a vine wreath and ripped grass bug net

Simply easy design... with tiny design details to make your summer display unique.

Interweave a dangling Egg outline Easter Wreath Basket

An open egg shaped wreath for Easter styling

Grow a wheatgrass patch for an almost entirely edible Easter display

Grow wheatgrass to create a Spring patch of green for your mini Easter egg hunt.

Handcrafted grass and twig basket to hold some Easter flowers

Easter basket filled with (almost... almost chocolate) anthuriums.

Hanging knotted foliage hearts from Quince blossom branches

Add a bit of love to your blossom branches with hanging heart knots.

A radiating, gradient carnation design in a shallow container

A bit of Kenzan support for a floating shallow container design

Catch Blossom Petals in a Pussy Willow tray basket

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

Hanging dangling eggshells with a twig and some ripped grass

Pierce eggshells to string it up for a delicate Spring design element.

Clematis Vine Swing

Weave a delicate nest for a small spring design.

Craft a Spring basket from a wreath

A wide gap nearly basket for nearly spring

The last Vine Wreath

Every designer knows how to stretch their supplies. We use and re-use our dried plant material until our fellow designers feel like hiding it from us. I formed such an attachment to my vine wreaths. This post features four designs using the same wreaths.

Feeling Funky

I wove vine wreaths to form a pyramid, one just slightly larger than the next. In the natural cavities between the wreaths I placed the roses and lisianthus in plastic covered Oasis

Veiled Sunshine:50th Anniversary of the South African Orchid Society at the Cape Town Convention Centre.

Bright and sunny cymbidium orchids and roses, lilies, lisianthus and pincushions

Love Spell

Weave willow to create a heart shaped wand design

How To Catch A Dream

Take inspiration from a traditional Dream-catcher design to create a floral armature

Creative Expectations

My article and a floral parasol design featured in DIY Weddings Magazine

Practice

Weave a willow bird nest

You are all invited!

My article and Willow Crown design featured in DIY Weddings Magazine

Just think!

Weave a nest for chocolate Easter eggs

On the first warm day in May

A ripped flax, Ranunculus and Mikado Reed drop shaped nest

I found it this way: Bird nest design

This was the fourth design I did in my "I found it this way" floral art demonstration

One tug

Weave willow bark strips into a nest and weave a bird from flax

Large Open Weave Twig Basket

Easter Basket used in the Durbanville Flower Club Easter Parade Demonstration

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.

Twiners Gonna Twine

Twining jasmine vine twirl for Easter

Catch and Release

Ah... yes summer time designing. Anyone else seeing more insects hiding between the petals this year?

Where do you even start looking?

Easter egg... egg for Easter eggs

To grow a patch of grass of our very own

The first of my new monthly articles about growing the material you need to design with. This month we are taking stock of what we need... and growing wheatgrass.

Hop on… it’s Easter!

A cheery Easter basket for a new beginning

Hang on, love

A hanging heart design to celebrate love this Valentine's Day.

It’s up there

Whether it’s a solid foot for floating flowers, the tips of new growth or the curve of a dried twig your design needs help to stay upright.

Spring Tray-ning

A Spring basket design for catching falling blossom petals.

It’s all ===> right

Hang a dangling eggshell in a Spring blossom design.

Swing Vine

Weave a delicate vine swing to nestle a small vase with spring flowers in

Bring some Spring

Just like the weather is only hinting at spring, so is this design only hinting at being a basket