Flowers - Sugar and Thread

Mary Corbett's Needle & Thread arrives in my e-mail inbox every day.  She asked the question: "Do you have other crafts and hobbies that you pursue, in addition to embroidery?".  Yes I do, my other wonderful hobby is cake decorating, especially making sugar flowers.  Here's examples of some that I have made.

Here are sugar calla lilies, and underneath calla lilies in stumpwork 

 



These are sugar hydrangeas



And here and below are stumpwork hydrangeas

This is a sugar cherry blossom tree

A silk ribbon rose tree

A sugar wild rose, or briar rose



And a silk ribbon rose




These are sugar hybrid tea roses



And these are ribbon roses

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And finally some sugar pansies just waiting to be included in a spray for a cake.

Silk ribbon pansies

One thing I realize is that I love flowers - sugar, silk and real!