We had a great time at the Marsh Street Centre with 2 willow weaving workshops. In the morning we made willow & dogwood baskets by starting with a stained wood base. This workshop is a great introduction to basket weaving. Starting with a wooden base shape of your choice, you learn traditional weaving techniques for the sides and border to create a small basket. Willow & Dogwood Basket on Wooden Base In the afternoon we made stars & hearts from willow and then wove large hearts out of dogwood and willow.
Hearts, stars & garlands
This week’s focus for my 
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!
Knowing an artist friend chuckles at cute woodland creatures like the reindeer, I got inspired to create these little gnomes when she asked for companions for her reindeer.
