Make sweet nests
It is really easy to make the finest little nests from natural materials. Anne Mette from Butik Moulés has been out collecting materials in the form of hay and branches from various trees, including birch branches - and made these fine nests. We show you here, step by step, how to do it.
You will need:
Flax, pliable branches from, among other things, hanging birch, moss, fir, quail's egg, steel wire and windlass wire. Scissors. Possibly some moss and feathers for decoration and a few quail eggs or chocolate eggs.
Here's how you do it:
Start by making a narrow sausage out of straw or hay. It doesn't matter if a little hay and straw sticks out. The looser you tie it, the wilder the final result. Tie it together with winding wire and twist it into a nest. Depending on how big you want to make the nest, you continue to twist and drive upwards so that it takes the shape of a bowl. If necessary, fill the bottom of the nest with some moss and put deflated quail eggs and some feathers in the nest. You can also use them as decoration for your table setting and put some chocolate eggs in the nests.
The same technique is used for the nests of birch branches. Here, however, you can save a little on the steel wire, as the branches can almost be twisted into each other without wire. You can possibly add a little moss between the layers. If you omit the bottom, you can hang the small wreaths in a window or on a coat rack. Small eggs can also be hung in the middle.
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