This is where I stopped working on the pine needle basket the last time (and I took a long break from working on it). Today I finished up the sides and started working on the top. Around the edge of the top I like to do just a solid ring of the crochet cotton. Like this:
This takes FOREVER! When I run out of string, I knot it and try to slip the knot under the previous strings. I do the same thing when starting a knot. Once I finally get all around it, I sometimes add beads. I start a knot under the top strings again, then I go out through the side to put on the beads then back through the strings until I get to where I want the next beads etc.
Finally done!
I think it's a berry picking basket.
Congratulations on finishing this guy! You're tempting me to go out in my backyard and collect a bunch of needles!!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks really great! I bet you're glad you persevered with it. Basket-making presumably counts as a "pastime" - keeping you busy for ages and ages.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get lots of berries to pick...
Love it...very arty and very useful. Another skill mastered.
ReplyDeleteYou know overall, these don't take that much time as far as hours but every time I make one it takes me several months. It requires you to sit still, for so long, I just can't do it all the time.
ReplyDeleteNice. What great patience you have, Becky!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good project in the dead of winter!
ReplyDeleteBecky: Your basket is beautiful! I have always wanted to make pine needle baskets...now you've got me thinking I may need to give it a try in the very near future.
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely basket you are so clever.
ReplyDeleteClever!! I think I may have to try and copy this!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. I, too, really like these baskets and it really is easy to do.
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