Flowers are luvly

[Kepis]

I've been carving a lot of wooden flowers of late from readily available materials from the garden, gives me something to do and to occupy my hands and mind whilst i await surgery (whenever that might be), all of these have been carved with a Swiss Army Knife or TBS Boar EDC folder.

Open petal flower, five individual blooms carved from a green Cherry Plum shoot and glued to a Cherry Plum twig with hot glue.



Tiny flowers carved from a Bamboo bbq skewer



Multi bloom flower carved form Cherry Plum with a Cherry Plum stalk



Another multi bloom from Cherry Plum on a Chery Plum stalk, but this time bunched together for a different effect



Hazel flower, long petals are the bark of the stick



Cherry Plum flowers awaiting glue up on a twig



Hazel Ball Chrysanthemum



Hazel (top) & Aspen (lower) flower on a Cherry Plum twig



Hazel Ball Chrysanthemum



Hazel flowers on a Cherry Plum twig



Cherry Plum flowers on a Cherry Plum twig



Cherry Plum flowers on a Cherry Plum twig, there are 15 individual flowers in this "creation"



Hazel flower on a Cherry Plum twig, Cherry Plum flowers and a Porcupine made from the cone left behind after carving the Hazel & Cherry Plum flowers, waste not, want not ;-),



All of the flowers and the Porcupine have or will go out on the grass verge in front of the house for people to take if they so wish, if they don't, well i guess the next time the council cut the grass they will all get shredded.

 

[Robbi]

Outstanding.!!

 

[Mesquite]

Very impressive bit of carving Mark

 

[saxonaxe]

They're excellent Mark. My Mother used to make flowers very much like those, especially the Chryanths, she used to dye them yellow with Onion skins or a red colour with Elder Berries. They always sold well.

 

[Broch]

Brilliant; I love them

 

[Kepis]

cheers all.

 

[Muddypaws]

They're really rather good! Better than I could manage even though I'm not awaiting surgery.

 

[g4ghb]

great carving and despite looking great as flowers, your the man if you need to get a fire lit in the rain!!!

 

[dwardo]

Brilliant. I bet they would also set to flame with just the rumour of a spark!

 

[Kepis]

great carving and despite looking great as flowers, your the man if you need to get a fire lit in the rain!!!

Brilliant. I bet they would also set to flame with just the rumour of a spark!

Yup, they are pretty fine and would go up a treat, i don't think any of the neighbours have twigged yet that they would be perfect for lighting their barbeques ;-)

 

[crosslandkelly]

Gorgeous!

 

[Kepis]

Afternoon playing with colours to see if i can come up with something a little different.

Flowers are all Hazel on Cherry Plum stems, colours are bog standard permanent markers.

 

[Mesquite]

Nice work Mark.

Have you ever tried dying them with the fill from water based felt tip pens? You put the fill in water, leave it a while then dip the flowers in the dye water

 

[Kepis]

Nice work Mark.

Have you ever tried dying them with the fill from water based felt tip pens? You put the fill in water, leave it a while then dip the flowers in the dye water

I've not used the inner from felt pens, but i used to dye the flowers using good old fabric dye (Dylon), used to work really well and gave me a huge choice of colours, i used to have gawd only knows how many 5l bottles of dye pre mixed and ready to go in the side shed.

 

[Mesquite]

I've not used the inner from felt pens, but i used to dye the flowers using good old fabric dye (Dylon), used to work really well and gave me a huge choice of colours, i used to have gawd only knows how many 5l bottles of dye pre mixed and ready to go in the side shed.

Sounds like you've got a new project

 

[Kepis]

Sounds like you've got a new project

Talked myself into that didn't I?

 

[Mesquite]

Talked myself into that didn't I?

Maybe...

 

[gg012]

Wow! Very impressive skills you have there.

Sent from underground

 

[Tony]

Heck, you have been busy , how do you fancy doing a step by step for the rest of us to follow?

 

[Kepis]

Heck, you have been busy , how do you fancy doing a step by step for the rest of us to follow?

It helps keep me occupied whilst i await surgery Tony as well as occupying my mind it also provides exercise for my hands and fingers (being medically housebound is a right swine when you have been so active all your life).

I have a tutorial in PDF that i wrote that i can send you (31 pages) or if people want to help little old me out with a few pennies, i have it all as a booklet on Amazon for less than the price of a pint.

Mark