Recycle an old bicycle and put it to work in your garden!

Create a romantic garden feature with an old bicycle and a flower-filled wooden basketweave panniers.

Evoke an atmosphere heavily loaded with memories but reinvented using nostalgic creative planting of Spring/Summer flowers in a carved wooden panier - either standing next to an old bicycle, or clipped to it, leaned up against an old wall surrounded with trailing ivy.  A stunning garden feature that will create a true talking point no matter how large or small your garden or courtyard.  Allow the bicycle to rust and assume the patina of age, replanting your flowers as the years roll by.

Just follow the steps below.

Step One
Cut tracing paper to fit one side of a wooden box, planter or bin. Use a soft pencil to draw a basket weave pattern (ours is a ribbon weave which is the simple weaving under and over of raffia) on the tracing paper. Tape the paper in position and trace the pattern down.


Step Two

Fix an engraving cutter into the Dremel Hobby 7700 multi-tool and carve the pattern.

Step Three

Add detail to the carving with the multi-tool and engraving cutter.  If you want to attach the basket to the bicycle or garden wall, drill two holes in the top sides of the 'panier' using the multi-tool with the wood drill bit and attach with strong metal clips.  Alternatively, stand the basket to one side of the bicycle to form a 'picture' on the wall of your courtyard.  Then, either place chickenwire into the internal space within the wooden 'panier' and create a cut flower display - or fill the box with soil and plant with lovely roses and trailing ivy.

Step Four

Add box balls in tubs to your courtyard to continue the whimsical theme.  Continually clip into shape using a shrub shear.

Materials required :

Dremel Hobby 7700 multi-tool

Engraving cutters 106 and 107

Wood drill bit 636

Large wooden box or planter

Old broken bicycle
Soil (or suitable compost)

Spring flowering plants

For details visit www.dremel.co.uk