Make, do & craft
Go back to nature with veggie-themed tableware
Feature and styling Sophie Holt Photos Lizzie Orme
Wrapped asparagus vase
Keep it green with this clay-covered flower display
Pokal wine glasses, £1.50 per pair, Ikea. 12-piece Avignon dinner set, £59, M & S. Natural wooden tree slices, from £12 each, The Wedding Of My Dreams. Chalfont linen napkins, £20 per set of four, John Lewis
SHOPPING LIST
●white air drying clay, £3.75 per 1kg, Hobbycraft ● rolling pin ●● sharp-edged ruler or blade ● Daler Rowney Simply Acrylic paint set, £15, Hobbycraft ● paint brush ● clear spray varnish ● glass jar l hot glue gun ● FloraBase natural raffia, £2.50, Hobbycraft
1 To make the body of each asparagus spear, take a golf ball-sized lump of clay and roll it into a sausage. Using a sharp ruler or blade, cut off one end, to give it a flat edge. Use your fingers to shape the other end into a slight point. Take another handful of clay and roll it out flat until it is around 3mm thick. Use the blade to cut lots of triangles from it, then add these to the pointed end of the asparagus to make the leaves, overlapping them and smoothing the clay at the base of each until they are firmly joined to the stem.