Flower Power at the WI

 I was very pleased to be asked to attend a local WI group last night who had approached me with a view to my giving a talk. Never comfortable standing talking, I managed to negotiate a more hands on approach and we had a wonderful evening making corsages.

I demonstrated 2 methods, and then the ladies quickly got down to work making their own.

The rolled felt roses we made from the remains of felted sweaters. This gives a quite different look from using machine made flat felt.

The melted edge technique used on the satin corsages was one they hadn't seen before, but they bravely risked singed fingers in a bid to make beautiful flowers.

Flowers ranged in size, shape and colour but were all extremely pretty.

Thank you ladies, I thoroughly enjoyed arming you with a new string to your already very creative bows.

apologies for the poor quality of my camera phone photos!