Fall Harvest Floral Class

The Fl wer Nook

Creative Workshop

Classes at the Flower Nook Creative Workshop are not just informative. They’re a lot of fun, too! Each class is designed to teach a particular design or technique. After a brief demonstration students get guidance, instruction and personal attention so that each student can create a beautiful floral piece that can go home with them at the conclusion of the class.

October:  The Flower Nook is combining with Steaming Mad to offer 2 different workshop topics at our Creative Workshop Saturday.

Topics: Essential Oils and Fall Harvest floral design

 

Floral Design: Fall Harvest floral design featuring the lovely rich browns, copper and bronze colored flowers of autumn while exploring the design technique known as clustering.

 Then we will add our signature artist flare for the wow factor.

 

Date: October 12^th, 2015

Location:                   Steaming Mad                   and                  The Flower Nook

                                   204 E Iron Ave                                             208 E Iron

                                   785 404-6175                                              785-827-0351

Time:                         9:30 -10:30                                                  10:30 to 12:00

Price:  $ 55.00

Classes include beverages, snacks, and all necessary supplies.

Participants will then get to take home their own Fall Harvest floral creation and 2 personal essential oil products.

 Call 785-827-0351 (The Flower Nook) to sign up now.

Classes tend to fill up very fast. Space is limited.

Full payment is required within 4 days of registration to hold your spot.

Bow Making

Bow Making

To figure out approximately how much ribbon you will need, simply follow this general formula: Determine how long each loop will be. Multiply this length by 2 and then multiply this figure by the number of loops desired. This will give you the total number of inches needed for a bow without tails. Add the total inches required for your bow tails to the previous figure. Devide by 35 to determine the actual yardage.

Instructions

At one end of the ribbon form a loop and hold it with your thumb inside the loop and the fingers on the outside of the loop. Curl the ribbon  over to create the center loop and pinch it at the base. Twist the tail of ribbon where your fingers are pinched so that the front side of the fabric is facing up.

From that center loop, create a bigger loop on each side. Going back and forth while holding the center together.

Notice that most ribbon has a "right" side and "wrong" side.  The trick to making nice bows is to keep the "right" out where it can be seen and the "wrong" side hidden.

Form a loop, coming back to your fingers under the first loop, twist, form a loop on the opposite side.  Keep twisting and forming loops on opposite sides of the first loop.

 

When you have created 4-6 loops: gather the middle of the bow together, insert the wire or pipe cleaner  into the center loop and pull it back gathering all the other loops.  

Tighten the center of the bow and twist the pipe cleaner together.  Just trim off the end of the ribbon.

Then you can fluff the bow and spread out the loops to get a look that you like.  You also want to decide how long you want your tails to hang and cut them to the desired length.

For How to Video see:
https://youtu.be/kkvuKZwAENg

 

 
Wisteria

The charms of wisteria are almost impossible to resist. Lounging languorously over a fence or pergola, she will beckon to you with her heady perfume. Before you know it, her nodding, pendulous blooms have hypnotized you.

 Wisteria is a genus of about ten species of woody, deciduous twining vines. Eight are Asian and include Wisteria floribunda, Japanese wisteria and Wisteria senensis, Chinese wisteria.  Wisteria frutescens, the often less fragrant and floriferous American wisteria, is a native vine and often recommended as an alternative to the Asian wisterias which are on the USDA list of invasive plants.


Along with its gorgeous flowers, wisteria produces large seed pods. In the early 1800s, collectors imported wisteria seed from China and Japan to the US and Britain. However, plants grown from the seed produced disappointing flowers.  When plant collectors later brought home cuttings made from layering or grafting, the plant thrived and bloomed abundantly like its predecessors in Asia.

The dark side of this vine has to do with its amazing vigor and the ability for its tendrils to travel swiftly underground, popping up far away from the main plant, and devilishly wrapping around trees, rose bushes or virtually anything else that is in their path and standing still..

If you are determined to plant wisteria or already own it, you may be interested to know that all those leaves and stems you prune away can be put to good use. See a simple technique for using wisteria to dye fabric at DIY: Make a Natural Dye from Wisteria.

 

 

 

 

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