I saw a few attractive Waitrose winter wreaths a couple of weeks back and decided to make one using, where possible, naturally scavanged materials. I’d wandered around a few places over the last forthnight but had not felt motivated to walk around with a shopping bag full of twigs. With a weekend staying in Godalming, I decided to go equipped on an afternoon walk with a friend, Jen, in search of the fundametal ingredient, willow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Willow is good construction material for all sorts of ‘bushcrafty’ projects like baskets or hats. Willow is flexible and can be woven to form a wreath, which is the first stage and then the other ingredients are used, in the second stage, to decorate. Anything you feel appropriate can be scavanged for decoration and it’s worthwhile searching for pictures of wreaths to get some inspiration beforehand. We’d decided on some holly (with berries), oak leaves, pine needles, pine cones and mistletoe. Equipped with the list of ingredients, a bahco laplander pruning saw, a simple Mora knife and the usual day bag; we headed off to Frensham Little Pond<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’d not been before but had chosen the location because of the lake and I seem to notice Willow around water. Talking of water, Jen kindly captured me driving the Jeep through a Ford in slow-motion on my Samsung Galaxy S7. She got soaked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n