Sue's Family, Flowers and Fun Stuff: Back to College for Spring Term

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Back to College for Spring Term - Week 1

So it was back to college for the start of Spring Term and the second of three terms of my course. It turned out to be a bit of a strange week as I had been gearing up for completing some assignments and preparing for some practical assessments but that didn't happen. We spent most of the first day back reorganising the deadlines for the next few assignments and dates for practical assessments. In the end we didn't really get anything practical done, except receive and condition our flowers.

On Tuesday it was onto funeral work but in the hand tied unit and it was a second go at a funeral sheaf, here are a couple of pictures of mine. This design is a cross between a hand tied, a flat backed bouquet and a sheaf. It is hand tied and can be made in the hand (if you have large and strong hands, it is like a flat backed bouquet in the way you spiral the stems front and back of main line in the arrangement and it is like a sheaf with the stems sticking out of one end of the arrangement. The design has something slightly unusual as it has what is referred to as a 'return end' - that is where you have some leaves pointing in the opposite direction to the flowers to finish the design off, here some leatherleaf (arachniodes adiantiformis) is acting as the return end just above the purple bow.

Below is my practice for the first practical assessment which is a decorative wrap, this one was much better than the one I created in the assessment. On Wednesday college was shut because of SNOW!