British Flowers Week: Guest Blog Lock Cottage Flowers

As it’s British Flowers Week we thought we’d invite wedding florist – Alice from Lock Cottage Flowers – to blog for us 🙂

Hi twool fans — I’m a wedding florist based in Surrey and love using twool, especially in jam jar designs — which are most often used in weddings that have a rustic or vintage theme.  Here are some of the ways that twool can be used for a jam jar (you just can’t beat a jam jar!):

Wrapping

Here I have used ‘Slinky Minky‘ to great effect wrapping a simple band of twine round a jar and topping it off with a paper flower (available in craft shops and stationers). I included a few silk fibers here using raw silk offcuts bought on Amazon which adds a nice texture. Drop a candle in and done!

Cinnamon buns

Use twool baker’s twine for this one because the 2 colours give you that cinnamon bun look — yum!

Spiral some twine in your fingers flat just like a cinnamon bun and place it on a circle of card with glue on it.  Keep spiral snug with no gaps.  Here I’ve finished 2 cinnamon buns with a pearl and a gem embellishment (don’t use 2 pearls, they’ll look like eyes) as well as a little piece of scrunched silk, silk and jute fibers and open weave jute ribbon.  Let’s face it, I got a little carried away.

This final photo shows some of jars together from left to right:

First jar is ‘Slinky Minky’ twool wrapped and finished with lace ribbon–the beans in this jar represent sweets for the sweetie table!

Next jar is hessian ribbon with twool ‘Au naturel‘ tied in a simple bow.  This is a good one for flowers — you don’t want a large paper flower embellishment competing with those peonies – they’ll lose.  Use a smaller flower or better yet, a bow or metal/wooden button to finish a jar meant for flowers (thus sayeth the florist).

Last jar is the cinnamon bun jar — this one is best for candles because it’s a little off-beat looking — candles can carry that off better than sweeties or flowers, not sure why.

Hope this has given you some fun ideas – if you are a DIY bride these will be fun projects for you and your buddies in the run up to your wedding.  Other folks can use these techniques as well of course — plenty of summer parties where a few jam jar decorations would be fantastic.  Happy crafting everyone!