Making a camel muzzle (sort of) with daffodil stalks
Every year I normally collect daffodil leaves as they start dying down and turning brown. After drying them, I spray them lightly with water to soften them and use them to make cordage (string). This year, however, as well as collecting a few leaves, I focused on collecting the flower stalks after the flowers had […]
Weaving with bindweed
“A weed is just a plant in the wrong place.” I don’t know where that quote comes from, but I think it depends on the eye of the beholder. Take bindweed. My Ever Supportive Partner (ESP) would say yes, please take it all – and burn it! But I, with a basketmaker’s eye ever on […]
Christiane Sand Award for Coiling 2021
I’m delighted to announce that I am one of two students who received the Christiane Sand Award for Coiling from City Lit. Christiane Sand first enrolled on the City Lit Creative Basketry course in September 2011. After completing it she was diagnosed with cancer and re-enrolled in 2015 as a therapeutic pursuit alongside her cancer […]
