{"id":131,"date":"2026-03-23T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:24:36","slug":"wire-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/spring\/wire-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wire Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday 23 March a group of eager crafters gathered at Visit Highworth to enjoy an afternoon Mini Make session led by Karen Holland from the Lechlade Craft Barn. The topic for the afternoon was a little introduction to Wire Flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"134\" src=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf003.jpg 576w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf003-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf003-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf004.jpg 576w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf004-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf004-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf002.jpg 576w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf002-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf002-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Karen showed the ladies how to bend wire and secure it into the shape of a flower. Once this was achieved each petal was coated in layers of vibrant nail varnish and left to harden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf005-1024x436.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf005-1024x436.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf005-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf005-768x327.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf005.jpg 1353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The participants had a great time and each left with a beautiful creation of their own making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf001.jpg 576w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf001-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wf001-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Watch out for more Mini Make sessions as we move into summer at VHL. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 23 March a group of eager crafters gathered at Visit Highworth to enjoy an afternoon Mini&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mini-makes","category-spring","tag-mini-makes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visithighworth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}