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| Wild and tangled vine that caught our attention |
Ever gone past something a few times and not seen the potential ?
Suddenly spotted it in a different way ? suddenly it wasn't just an artistic photograph just waiting to happen, suddenly it wasn't just a vine to trim but potential weaving material - know what I mean ?
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| this has almost woven itself - how hard can it be ? |
Now I am no weaver - in fact the weaver in the family has taken a definite disinterest in my many hints ! How hard can it be ? The vine has practically woven itself - all I need to do is to trim if off and loop it together - surely ?
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| Artistic, twining vine just begging to be made into something |
Well apparently, it is not quite so easy as I thought it would be - after looping it this way and that my weaver disinterested party is now pretty interested to see how a non basket weaver will attack this wee problem and exactly how the finished product will look. I can see him practically sniggering up his sleeve trying to keep a straight face at my attempts. When you can't weave a basket what do you do then ?
Chuck all the rules of basket making out the window and go for freeform or wild weaving, that's what and I reckon its pretty dam good ! Its original, its unique, its artistic and it actually looks like a basket and its free - no more buying baskets. I think even the basket weaver was impressed but maybe he will never, ever admit it and he did show me how the handle should go !
Voila ! Be among the first to admire my efforts - Turns out the vine is a Chilean Jasmine covered in beautiful white flowers now and the self woven part is completely covered in leaves so you can't see its gorgeous woven form.
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| THE Finished Wild Basket !! |
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