Hot Cross Bun Basket

 

I wove a round  natural reed basket with a wooden base and accented with a diamond weave braid decorative border using seafoam dyed round reed. 

Gina Kieft, a basketmaker from Michigan designed the pattern.  You can learn more about Gina and her baskets at www.ginasbaskets.com 

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CPBWG May Workshop

The Central Pennsylvania Basket Weavers Guild hosted a weekend workshop lead by Gail Hutchinson.  Gail is a full time basket weaver from West Virginia, who travels the country to teach her craft.

I choose to make a round basket with a woven base that added extra spokes from #2 round reed that were manipulated to give a unique pattern to the side of the basket. 

The basket was finished with a ribbed rim and "flags" of the round reed encircling the top of the basket. The finished basket is 9 1/2" tall and 12" in diameter.

Starting the ribbed rim.

Basic step to the completed basket

Members Show Entry

The Carroll County Arts Council 16th Annual Members Show opens May 4, 2018.  The exhibit runs through August 3, 2018. 

I submitted a mixed media gourd vessel for the exhibit.   The gourd is painted using the acrylic pouring "dirty cup dump" method.  Pine needles rim the edges of the gourd and rope around a deer antler.  Some beads are added for accent.