I wanted to make a basket for our eggs and traditional Latvian pīragi buns (Granny buns as we call them!) at our family’s Easter gathering. 

This First Frame Basket Project (Shallow Dish) in Jon Ridgeon’s book looks just like an egg and by using Green Edna, Hakuro Nishiki willows and dogwood, I was able to ‘decorate’ the egg with stripes. I used freshly cut dogwood for the oval frame and green willow for the ribs. The dogwood weavers were cut offs from my log basket that were still weathering outside, so we will see what shade of red they end up after freezing outside and then being soaked with the willow.