This week’s focus for my 2019 goal was honing my basket weaving skills. Back in 2016 I took my first basket workshop with Lene Rasmussen at Lakeshore Willows. I love to go there learn from Lene and spend the day in a room full of fellow basketweavers!

Lene taught me how to do the zigzag weave & it paired well with some double French randing in 2 colours.

It is a large basket, so I designed 2 handles by using 6 of the stakes on each side and then modifying a 4-behind-2 border to work around the handles. I can’t really share the steps of how I altered the border to accommodate the handles because it was very much just a feel for keeping the pattern flowing as I went!