This course will consist of many segments! This will be a course for an experience level or beginner ready for some different techniques. How to create and design your own basket. We will discuss needs, inspiration and design preferences. Techniques that will be taught: Filled in solid bottom, Twill weave, Triple twining, French randing, Crisscross zig zag, Cross stitch, …and much more!

What You Will Learn

Day 01:

• Materials and tools needed to make baskets

• How to design your own basket.

• Bases and handles

• Wood base technique

• Twill

• Triple Twining

• Cross Stitch

• Ti-Twining

Day 02:

• Building a sampler basket using multiple advanced techniques. This will be a great reference basket for your future designs

• Over and under basic

• overlays

• Arrows

• Feathers

• Criss-Cross

• Using dyed cane

Day 03:

• Randing and reverse randing

• Rims and other finishes.

BONUS!

• Hearth Basket with a Gretchen Border and weaved bottom