If you want to know how to make a wattle, a scarecrow to put it next to you, then you've come to the right place. Visual master classes, photos will help with this. Craftsmen make decorative fences for summer cottages from different materials. One of them is tree branches. If you want to make a high fence, you will need a lot of them.
Decorative fences from branches - preparation of the necessary
Periodically, foresters cut down excess young growth in the forest. Around summer cottages, this is done by members of garden associations at subbotniks. Then the shoots have to be taken out, spending money. But you can turn the trunks of young trees, the branches into a wattle, making it with your own hands.
To make it easier for yourself, remove branches directly in the forest with pruning shears and keep an eye on suitable stakes. The latter must be strong, so use trees such as:
- Pine;
- spruce;
- oak;
- larch.
If this is a small decorative fence, then other tree species will do as well. For branches, take thin ones that bend well. Suitable for rods:
- willow;
- alder;
- Rowan;
- willow;
- hazel.
Clean them of foliage right in the forest, and after bringing them home, start making a wattle fence with your own hands.
So, for it you will need:
- branches;
- stakes;
- wire;
- secateurs;
- axe;
- sledgehammer.
Branches should not be old and dry, they do not bend, but break. The best time to collect twigs is in spring or from July to autumn.
Do-it-yourself wicker fence
It can be quite high, this is located on the border of the plots. But a short one will also come in handy. Such a decorative fence protects the front garden, delimits the territory into zones. You can turn this corner into a resting place, a feast, by hanging clay pots on a wattle fence, placing figures of people and animals nearby.
We begin to make a wicker fence with our own hands with the preparation of stakes. If you decide to arrange a global fence, their height is 240-250 cm, since 70 cm will be in the ground.
Sharpen the end of each pole with an ax. Lubricate the lower parts with molten bitumen or burn on a fire so that the wood does not rot in the ground for as long as possible. Soak the upper part with an antiseptic, then it will remain for a longer time.
The next stage requires male strength - you need to drive the stakes with a sledgehammer 70 cm into the ground. But if you are making a small decorative fence, use stakes 1 meter high, 30 cm of which must be driven into the ground. The sledgehammer is heavy on a woman's hands, so use a hammer. To prevent the top of the peg from deforming, place a plank on them during this work.
As you can see in the diagram, the stakes are placed every 40 cm, but it is possible less often. After that, they must be fastened with a horizontal pole, tied with wire or fixed with self-tapping screws. Here's how to make a wattle fence next. If you have freshly harvested branches, it is enough to clean them of foliage and unnecessary shoots. If the branches lie down for a while and do not bend well, put them in a container, fill them with pre-salted boiling water, leave them for a day, after which you can use them.
There are several ways to weave vines:
- Starting from the bottom corner, skip the whip in front of the even stakes, and for the odd ones, it should be in the back. Braid the second rod so that its turns are staggered in relation to the first. Further, all odd rows correspond to each other, as well as even ones.
- If you are making decorative fences for flower beds, you can braid the branches vertically. Then you need to fix 3-5 horizontal poles. Starting at the top of the first pillar, skip a branch between the crossbars, intertwining it. The rest are staggered.
- You can also make an openwork decorative fence using the same technique. With your own hands, you need to bend the first vine in half, attach this middle part in front of the vertical stake, wind the ends of the branch on it, twist it a little, thread them into the formed loop. Tighten. Now put both ends of the vine on the second stake in front, wrap it 1 time, also thread them, but already in the second loop.
- If you want to finish the work as soon as possible, take not one thin branch, but several. You can weave them not close to each other, but at a distance.
If your task is to make a wicker fence so that the rods are located close to each other, after each decorated row, tap on it with a hammer.
When the branch ends, tie a second wire to it and continue weaving. It is better to do this near a horizontal post. You can braid the branches to the top, leave the tops of the stakes uncovered, or decorate here with such semicircular turns.
Next to such a wattle fence, a figure of a man will look great. You can make these from the most unexpected materials, for example, from a broom.
How to make a stuffed animal with your own hands - 3 options
To craft this, you need:
- broom;
- cotton wool or synthetic winterizer;
- small dress or T-shirt and tight tights;
- markers or felt-tip pens;
- scissors;
- wire;
- multi-colored ribbons.
Here's how to make a scarecrow for a summer residence using the materials presented. Stuff tights with cotton or padding polyester. In order for them to become the doll's hands, mark the fists, elbows with ribbons, bandaging the blank in the appropriate places.
Also stuff the upper part of the tights with padding polyester or cotton wool, tie at the top and bottom to make a head. Place the broom handle under the doll's chin, secure it with wire and ribbons.
We do our hair. For her, cut the top of the tights into strips, tie them with a beautiful bow. To make our garden scarecrow charming, put on a dress or T-shirt on the figurine, which must be tied with a ribbon at the waist. Draw the doll's facial features and you can put it near the wattle fence.
And here is the second option, which will also tell you how to make a stuffed animal with your own hands. This is how it will turn out.
To make a stuffed animal, you will need:
- straw;
- screws;
- wire;
- 2 bars of different lengths;
- rope;
- white cardboard;
- acrylic paints;
- broom;
- the cloth;
- kerchief.
Where the fence stands, dig in or drive a long block into the ground. Attach to it with wire or screws perpendicular to the second, which is smaller. Wrap straw on the top of the bar to make a head, secure with a rope. Draw a face on cardboard, attach it to the head, tying it with a scarf.
To make the scarecrow further, you need to dress it up in an old sundress, dress or make a cutout in a square canvas in the center, put it on the neck, before attaching the head. It remains to gird the tunic and admire the result of the work.
Here's another interesting idea. After reading it, you will learn how to make a stuffed animal to put it where the wattle fence is.
For it you will need the following materials:
- bast brush or washcloth;
- satin ribbons;
- scraps of tissue;
- lace;
- kitchen towel;
- threads.
Equipment required:
- needle;
- sewing machine (if any);
- scissors.
You can buy a bast brush at a hardware store and a bast sponge at the market. If not available, replace these materials with straw.
Fold the washcloth in half, rewind the thread at the top to indicate the head. Separate the right and left strands, tie each strand of fabric around the wrist. Trim the washcloth here to get the handles you want.
Cut a triangular flap out of the fabric, hem it on one side, and sew lace on the other two. Sew a skirt, stitch a belt to it, tie it around the doll like an apron.
If you want something original in the garden so that, when you get up in the morning, you can smile at an interesting garden figure, see how to make a scarecrow of this type.
It can also be placed where the decorative fence is located - in front or behind it. If harmful neighbors live nearby, you can direct the most prominent part of the scarecrow in their direction.
This idea requires small, round gourds. If they are not there, you can replace them with balls. Here's what you will be using:
- 3 pumpkin or balls;
- old jeans, hat and shirt;
- fittings;
- wire;
- knife;
- scissors;
- white plastic.
To make a stuffed animal with our own hands, first we will build its frame. Take 2 rods of reinforcement, stick them into the ground. Bend the lower back around the knees. Tie 2 pieces of thick wire just below your neck - they will become hands.
Before scarecrowing, put jeans on the bottom of the reinforcement. Then stick it into the ground. Now stuff your trousers and shirt with straw. Bandage it to shape the body.
At the neck, connect both upper ends of the reinforcement with wire, put on the pumpkin-head, but first you need to prepare it. Cut out the side of the ponytail. Take out the seeds with a spoon, using this hole you will put the pumpkin head around your neck. Add guidelines for the mouth. Here you need to make a semicircular cut and insert teeth. They can be made from plastic white milk bottles by cutting with scissors.
Place round plastic circles in the eye incisions, drawing pupils on them with a marker or paint. 2 pumpkins will become the buttocks of a mischievous scarecrow. If you want, at the very beginning of the process, secure the sneakers, having previously made holes in them in order to thread the reinforcement.
What plants to plant near the wattle fence?
Traditionally, these are sunflowers. See how they fit perfectly with such a fence.
To get a similar effect, not fried sunflower seeds are soaked in water for two days in early May, then planted in front of the wattle fence, on the south side of it. Then, in July - August, the plants form a head with yellow petals, in the center of which tasty seeds gradually ripen.
If you don't want to wait that long, plant decorative sunflowers. They are short, very much like their miniature fruit-bearing counterparts, but do not produce edible seeds. Sometimes these plants are sold in pots. You can buy decorative sunflowers in a container, remove it with a lump of earth and plant it after the wattle is made.
Plant Jerusalem artichoke behind it. It is in great harmony with sunflowers and wattle, blooms at the end of summer, and the stems 2 meters high are visible from afar. Its tubers are edible and very healthy. You can dig them up in autumn or spring, make vitamin salads, vinaigrette, cook, stew. Dried Jerusalem artichoke makes delicious coffee. But Jerusalem artichoke grows strongly, consider this when planting at the fence.
Here's how to make a wattle fence, a stuffed animal, plant sunflowers, Jerusalem artichoke, to create an extraordinary rest corner in the country.
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