Add a ceramic or leather tie on also available from your favorite Supplier. Have fun playing with color combinations. Have fun weaving this for any of the seasons. Weave this basket in any of your favorite colors. (available from your favorite Basket Supplier.) Go right over the dyed pieces. Stain your basket with you favorite color of stain. Adjust the loops on the basket so they are all even. Continue with the next spoke to the right again crossing over 2 spokes and inserting into the top rim row. You can cut the end of this spoke on an angle and this will keep the spoke in by securing the braid. The first insert will determine how large the loop will be. Now take any spoke and go over 2 spokes and insert into the rim row of the top. When you get back to where you started, over lap the 3/8" piece for a few spokes to secure this row. Continue with the next spoke on the right wrapping this piece around the 3/8" to the right and then to the outside. Take any spoke and bring this around the 3/8" piece to the right and pull back to the outside of the basket. This will now be your rim row and this will go horizontally around your basket. Take a 24" piece of 3/8" (or ½") flat and place on the inside of the basket. Soak the basket upside down for about 5 minutes to get the spokes very pliable. Soak the base and upset the spokes by gently bending them over at the twining. Continue for 2 rows and tuck the ends into the previous rows. Take the clothespins off as you get to them and then put them back on after twining on these spokes. Slide this on one of the spokes on the long side and begin twining around the base of the basket. Take a long piece of soaked #2 round reed and crimp this piece in the middle. Mark the corners with a pencil mark and clothespin the 4 corners. Start to the left of the center mark and put 3 pieces on each side of the center.Īdjust base to 3" x 6" long. Weave the 6 pieces of ½" natural into these 3 pieces. Make sure the rough sides are facing up with all these spokes. Lay out the 3 pieces of ½" flat horizontally spacing about ½" between each piece. Soak these pieces with a long piece of #2 round reed. Mark the centers on all these pieces on the rough side. Cut 6 pieces of ½" flat natural at 24" long. Enjoy!Ĭut 3 pieces of ½" flat at 26" long. You may need to use jute twine or floss to hang the birdhouse. Hang the bucket and the birdhouse on the twig arms. Glue the black hat on, glue greenery on the brim. Wrap the felt scarf around the neck and tie. (Otherwise the twigs will fall down.) I inserted the twigs between the twining and 3/16” flat oval. Insert each twig arm into the sides of the body coming all the way through and sticking out a little where the other twig comes in, overlapping them inside. Spray the basket body with white spray paint. Put a baggie over the head and tape it together. Taper the ending row to level the basket.įinish off the body by doing a simple border: behind one and over for 2 rows. Do not weave tight, weave so that the body will grow and flare out. Insert the tapered end between the 16 th and 17 th spokes. Taper 3” of the starting end of the 3/16” flat oval. Insert the remaining #3 round reed spoke in the back. Try and keep the shape to a nice, round flare. Using a piece of soaked #2 round reed, crimp in half twine for 4 rows. Soak spokes and insert 16 pieces into the holes. Glue & White Spray Paint (not included in either kit)Ĭut 17 pieces of # 3 round reed at 11” long. Drilled wooden ball head (pre-painted in either kit)
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