This course will consist of many segments! This will be a course for an experience level or beginner ready for some different techniques. How to create and design your own basket. We will discuss needs, inspiration and design preferences. Techniques that will be taught: Filled in solid bottom, Twill weave, Triple twining, French randing, Crisscross zig zag, Cross stitch, and much more!
“So the next thing to do is go around and bend them over on top of themselves, all of them, because you’re breaking that fiber down. You can see I’m doing it, two handed. Now what happens if one of them breaks? They won’t at this point in time, I made sure that these, and if I had one that was kind of wimpy or something, then somewhere down in here, I would have replaced it with a more substantial piece I would have noticed. The key here to avoid the breakage is in the rehydration and that fabric’s offer was helped soften it. So just going to continue around here.”
“So the way you start, you don’t have to taper these end, but there is going to be a little space in here. So what we’re going to do is take the first one. You can choose any spoke. They’re all exactly the same. So you start under and you don’t want to extend it past here, but you start under, and then this is over, under, over, and then I’m going to stop. I still have quite a bit of length on here, but you only want to weave as a section about this far. So under, over, under, over, under, and then stop. Now, some people have a tendency to keep going. So if you have to use a closed pen or something to close, been out there to make yourself stop do that. So this is at an angle. So I’m going to work toward the left. I’m going to pick up another piece and I’m going to start under, and then over, under, over under now, I’m going to stop. The reason I am not going any farther is because when I get these all in and I get back here, I’m going to have to do a reverse weave or a back weave or backwards, whatever you’d like to call it, to get those final ones in.”
“So I had a lot of questions about what do you do when you run out and as you can see, I’m running out. But I still have to go, Oh, a big chunk over here. Very easy. What I’m going to do is I’m going to go back. I always weave these as far as I can. And splicing, triple twining can be very tricky, very tricky. And if you don’t get the right weavers in the right order, it will just be wacky. So after I’ve gone under this first, the first spoke that I took, I’m just going to clip that off on the inside. And then immediately I’m going to insert a new piece and all I’m doing is putting that right behind it.”
“And I’ve often said basket making is like any other craft or art that you do when you do something in repetition, knitting, crocheting painting. And I once had a student who came fairly regularly and she came one evening after work. And she said, you know, I almost didn’t come. I have a splitting headache. And I said, well, you can reschedule if you’d like, Oh no, I’ll go ahead and try it. About 20 minutes into the class, I went and I asked her how her headache was and she said, what headache? So there’s the answer to the headaches craft glasses.”
