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Sitting down jobs for me!

After making the Clematis kit I realised I needed a little something to go with.  I’ve gone for a couple of hosta kits from Ladies Mile Miniatures.  I’ve never yet managed to grow real hostas satisfactorily.  They never look as perky as the photos and the slugs and snails just love them, so the leaves often look more like fishing nets.

Paper versions are best!

The first job is the sheet of leaves. I chose to paint the back green before cutting each of them out rather than painting them individually.

Drying time. Backs ready painted and rest of uncut leaves on sheet on the right (painted side up). There’s a nice variety of size of leaf given

Aha! We now come to the flowers. Very small, some of them multiple layers of cut so need separating. I found this felt pad very useful as the pad on which to make the shapes bud-like, using a blunt brad-awl.

The felt pad has a peel off back as it’s meant to be stuck under furniture to stop marks on carpet, floor or table surface. It’s just the right size to work on though how long it will last if I keep sticking a brad-awl in it, I don’t know. One flower kept running away – as I said ‘small’.

Filling in one side of the rather wonky looking brick raised flower bed with clematis.

Which, once the horrid edge of that brick bed is covered on both edges, is going here

I kept knocking off the mini flowers but here they are reassembled

The neighbouring plants were bought in as they are and I’ve popped them in a trough – an eBay purchase

And where is all this happening? Round the back of the house, beside and under the dining room window.

Probably made it too loose and floppy, but it does cover up that raised bed and gives a little more flow to the look of things.  Tomorrow, all being well, I’ll have a go at ‘tother one.