Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Made from dried cherry twigs and a skeleton leaf.
I wanted to make a thin and delicate fan with open spaced slats for weaving plant material through.
The fine sections of grass are securely woven and interwoven and resting on the wooden slats. It looks very fragile but is secure enough to use.
Guide the fall leaves into the slats with the long length of a needle
Loop lily grass around a basic structure or shape made from paper.
Loops and straight sections of lily grass connected into a grass harness
I used to make baskets full of these when I was a little girl. We had a big Acasia thorn tree and I used to spear my “roses” onto the tree pretending I was the fairy responsible for bringing blossoms.
A t-wire create a stem to insert grass or twigs to shadow a design without laying flat
Create a light and transparent collar-base for the large composite flower to nestle into.
Glue a round Autumn leaf Composite Flower.
Follow the flower's natural curve but you can also curve only sections to create an elegant crescent or a curve at the tip of the stem
Flowers naturally float and you will need some kind of sinker to keep them suspended under water.
