On my online workbook this week: Finding balance

Dear

This week's inspiration is flow designs… the kind of designs where you lose track of time and just enjoy.

My tip for you this week is about folding flat feet for balancing the dried foliage. The dried foliage wants to stand upright and just like us can easily be balanced better when it has a wider stance.

I am first adding in strips of dried foliage horizontally. These bulk up the wire mesh shape and give support for the foliage that I am adding in to stand upright.

Next I add in the upright ribbons of foliage. Smooth the foliage open down the length. Measure the foliage by checking how long it can be before it flops over by holding the foliage up. Add about three to four times the width of the foliage for the foot and cut it to size. See the pictures above. Fold the added length of foliage at the bottom to give it a foot to stand on. Glue the foot at the bottom of the grass and glue that into the design and then let the tip of the grass stand upright, as it naturally wants to.

Enjoy!

Every good wish,

Christine