Looking a little blue
13 August 2009
I’ve been working on my Crooked Path [aka Drunkard's Path] Rose Basket. It didn’t turn out as I’d envisioned. The roses came out smaller than I’d imagined and the basket came out larger.
This just wasn’t going to work. The flower arrangement is suppose to overshadow the container not the other way around. These roses really underwhelm the basket. I was using the Clover medium-sized rose maker for the roses and switching to the large size was only going to add about 1/2″ to the rose — still not large enough. [A side note about the Clover roses. . . I really do like them. They're quite cute and easy to make. I will have to dream up another project to use them.]
I needed to play around with some different ideas so I hung up the basket on the design wall to percolate. I wondered if I made a wider, longer tube and twisted and turned it while wrapping it, would it give me larger rose that would still look nice?
It kind of looks like a cabbage rose. I think. So there it sits on the design wall. We’ll see how I feel about it in a few more days, but now things are looking a bit rosier. [tee hee]
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I think I would applique some petals underneath with the existing rose serving as a center. Also I would add some leaves and this would fill up your basket. They really are quite lovely.