Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
A pipe cleaner foxtail grass is built the way the real seed head is, with everything bristling out from a thin core. Wound tight enough, the plume keeps its soft nodding curve instead of flopping over.
Out west, foxtail barley carpets the shoulder of nearly every back road, green in June and pale tan by the end of summer. Anyone who has picked a handful on a walk knows what comes next: the head shatters across the back seat, and those barbed awns are the ones vets keep warning dog owners about. This one sheds nothing and has nothing sharp in it.
The finished piece is a single foxtail grass stem made from pipe cleaners, easy enough for a first-timer to follow. Most of the work sits in the bristles — trimming chenille stems short, packing them close along the core, then combing everything in one direction so the head reads full from every side. One bend near the top and it leans the way the real ones do.
Green like early summer, or tan like the end of it?
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A pipe cleaner foxtail grass is built the way the real seed head is, with everything bristling out from a thin core. Wound tight enough, the plume keeps its soft nodding curve instead of flopping over.
Out west, foxtail barley carpets the shoulder of nearly every back road, green in June and pale tan by the end of summer. Anyone who has picked a handful on a walk knows what comes next: the head shatters across the back seat, and those barbed awns are the ones vets keep warning dog owners about. This one sheds nothing and has nothing sharp in it.
The finished piece is a single foxtail grass stem made from pipe cleaners, easy enough for a first-timer to follow. Most of the work sits in the bristles — trimming chenille stems short, packing them close along the core, then combing everything in one direction so the head reads full from every side. One bend near the top and it leans the way the real ones do.
Green like early summer, or tan like the end of it?
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All "ABC TV" paper craft video: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMqdjxWoOlLhsTyc_Rfy4tAzoQt4Pdga
Follow me with hashtags:
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