Blue Mountain Baskets
Basketmaking & Growing Willow in the Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada
Category: Willow baskets (page 3 of 6)
Our local Blue Mountains museum asked me to run a workshop and we had 5 participants! Using Jon Ridgeon’s How to Weave a Willow Basket: A step by step project for beginners, I taught the steps of how to make a round basket. Such a wonderful group of woman, they are now our special group of founding alumnae! Their enthusiasm to take more classes and a long list of emails of others I have met at markets have inspired me to offer more workshops in 2019!
This Saturday I was back at the Branch Ranch to learn how to make willow ornaments! what a fun busy day learning from Jill & Jackie how to make all of these willow decorations! I found random weaving more difficult than following a pattern! I’d like to add little LED lights to some of these and make a herd of reindeer & add some antlers.
I finally got to take a workshop at the Branch Ranch with Jill and Jackie! They have designed this beautiful sculpture that supports peonies in a garden but also looks fantastic in a winter urn! It was a half-day workshop and we created these very large crowns.
I was in the Clarksburg Artisan Market on the Thanksgiving Weekend. For this I added to my inventory a harvesting basket for the them of the weekend. It turned out well following Jon Ridgeon’s book, and I like the creative handles I made from the overlapping fresh heritage willow I used to make the frame. They are really comfortable and yet artistic. I learned to split the ribs from fresh willow too from Jon’s book.
See my favourite moment at the Artisan Market post too!
Those are our own heritage apples- different varieties harvested from our 13 trees.
I worked on these two simultaneously over Week 31 & 32.
Completed 2018 Goal: A Basket per Week…
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Cats in Baskets
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- Shady squishes in at Mom and Dad’s.
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- In a basket boat
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- Toulouse in Dogwood Basket
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- Marie “helps” with stakes.
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- Marie in cat basket
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- Toulouse tries different approach
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- Magnus takes over shopping basket
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- Dogwood & vine cat basket
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- Week 5
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- Magnus in cat basket
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