Instagram is a wonderful medium for inspiration. Recently, I came across a wonderful Australian lass known as @string_harvest who sells some glorious fibres. I then came to learn she had posted a tutorial about beginners' basket weaving on YouTube. I had some naturalish looking raffia rope from my packaging materials and a swathe of embroidery cotton and off I went.
After playing around with the raffia, I wanted to upgrade to some rope which I had bought initially for making mixed media portions for my necklace designs. Pulling out an array of colours of embroidery cottons, I entered the mesmerising world of basket weaving. Using just rope, embroidery cotton, a needle and my hands to create a vessel of sorts is so deep-in-your-belly-type-artistic-satisfaction, a feeling which only comes to me from time to time. Around and around in a spiral like motion whilst slowly building a tangible object has whet my appetite to try many different designs and techniques.
Here is the start of the base. I need to cover up the white centre once done. The outside colour has shown up in the pic quite salmon-like whereas it's more of a cherry red in real life.
And here it is slowly building showing the inside:
And outside:
I'm finding this much slower to achieve an end result than some of my other crafts, however, I'm thoroughly enjoying the meditative nature of this one. I'm so excited to see how it turns out!!! I'm still unsure whether it'll be a large bowl or a vase, but have plans to make a small collection of plates to add with it for our place. Will post pics up once it's done :)
Enjoy the rest of your week!
