Getting Started With Twigs

Making Your Own Twiggy Crafts

Wildcrafting is the art of collecting craft supplies (among other things) right out of the arms of mother nature.

Getting Started With Twigs - make your own twiggy crafts

There are many twigs, right outside your back door, right in your garden or down the street.

If you're in a rural area, watch for the road crews pruning or clearing road allowances. The twigs they cut are perfect for lots of great crafts. Catch them before they run them through the chipper!

We often have a seasonal pick up by the recycling crew for offcuts from orchards, branches from spring pruning, raked debris from winter storms, and other opportunities for crafting supplies.

I love to go to the beach after a storm and pick through the massive amount of beached driftwood. It's often smoothed out, weathered and worn, and perfect as is for many garden crafts - like instant trellises for morning glories, for example.

Sometimes it's hard to stop - there's always another one that catches your eye - the size of your trunk or pickup bed will be the limiting factor.

If you want to use it indoors, let it get rinsed off in the rain for a few months to get rid of the salt (and any hitch hikers).

Not all twigs are created equal; some are flexible, making them perfect for crafts that require them to be bent, such as basket making.

Others don't have this characteristic, but they are ideal for blinds, trellises and boxes. Cater to the traits they have, and work with that limitation.

Learn more about twigs and how to collect them, store them and best of all, make them into useful and fun crafts for your home and garden.

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