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Staining Tutorial - With or Without Leather
Staining a basket can protect the life of your project and add a variety of color options! This tutorial shows how we stain baskets in our shop. Careful, it's a messy business...Fall Is Coming Soon
It's fun to experiment with changing colors and styles of weaving to reflect the switch from summer to autumn. We don't use dyed stakes or rims very often, but they sure pop on this fall-inspired basket!Weaving with a Wooden-Bottom Base Tutorial
There are only a handful of different techniques used to construct the base of a basket. The wooden-bottom base combines the technique of a plaited base with a little carpentry...September ‘17 Pattern
Are there ever enough places in the great room for all of the things needed for life? The Carry-All Basket is a beautiful way to contain stacks of quilts and afghans, piles of books and magazines, skeins and balls of yarn, and yes, oodles of toys for the...Putting Baskets to Use
Putting the Square Market Basket to use today while harvesting apples.Share This
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April ‘26 Free Pattern
Are there ever enough containers for hats & mittens, craft projects, or books & magazines? Every room in your home would be a perfect place for our Footed Storage Basket...
March ‘26 Free Pattern
Our Vintage Easter Basket is great for collecting up all of those sweet treats the Easter Bunny leaves behind. It is a very sturdy basket ~ and the filled base won't allow...
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Weaving Lessons
- Basket Finishes
- Staining Tutorial - With or Without Leather
- Weaving with a Wooden-Bottom Base Tutorial
- Wire and Bale Handles
- Weaving with Leather Handles
- Twining a Round Base Tutorial
- Leather Handled Tote Strapping Tutorial
- Singeing Tutorial
- Twining the Last Weaver Tutorial
- Sea Grass Continuous Weave Tutorial
- To stain or not to stain … that is the question!
- Shaping the Sides of a Basket Tutorial
- Double-Lashing Tutorial
- Clip and Tuck Tutorial
- Weaving the Sides Tutorial