How To Make Vines Out Of Rope Hi this is the last in my series of foliage making for a while at least until I start making the farms and park. Today I am sharing how I made my vines. These vines are made exactly the way I made my flowers made with string, only difference is that these vines are made with rope and are obviously so much larger. I needed them large to fore fill the look I was after. So you will need to look through my blog and find the one that is called “How to make flowers with string and flocking”, it was written on January 15 th 2021. The only differences to making these vines is that you will use rope instead of string and when you have finished untwisting the rope to within in 2cm from the bottom you will not be spraying your rope with green paint but with burnt umber paint, (A very dark brown). Also for different effects you may want to ...

                                     Making Our Large Wire Trees There are so many very good tutorials on YouTube that might be helpful. One I found showed how to make your gum trees foliage a lot thinner and his did look like gum trees. I tried to follow him but ended up with  much thicker trees so I have named ours Oak trees which we love anyway. Thank God the people that live in Glennanburg love whatever improvements we make and add to their little valley. You will need the following items to make your wire trees: -       Wire, I just used a gauge that I found I could bend and twist easily because there is a lot of bending and twisting. -       Pliers, you may find you may need this to help twist your wire, but on the internet some men have made some tools to help make this easier. I chose to just use the pliers and my figure....

                           How To Make Trees Made Out Of Rope We had collected some packets of trees on our travels over the last 10 years but when I came to making the mountain just like the flowers, weeds and shrubs I very quickly realized that we were going to need a whole lot more. I priced them online and didn’t want to pay the prices they were asking for them amount and we were going to need so many trees and not to mention the lack of variety to choose from, especially when I wanted gum trees, wattle trees, autumn trees, cherry blossom trees and just plain green trees of varying green foliage, so I decided to make my own. On the internet they show a few different ways to make the trees. But the type that interested me was ones made with string and rope, these look more do able for my first set of trees.  Here is a list of the following tools and items that you are going to need to make your own...