Baskets, Baskets, I love Baskets!

More on fixing things. It’s one part trying to find projects to work on that don’t involve me buying new supplies, it’s one part trying to get rid of clutter, and it’s one part trying to make the things I love last a long time or look nicer. I’m happy to report my shoes are not falling off any more so that is really great!

And tonight I took the first steps towards getting my knititng basket fixed up so it sits tall and proud instead dilapitated and pithetic looking.

You can read the details on Craft Leftovers, but basically I ripped out all the seams and replaced the missing post. Very good. Now I need to find the perfect fabric for the outer fabric and the liner. I know I want the outer fabric to be the same as what I used for my chair, but I’m not sure about the liner fabric yet. I’m going to dig around tonight and work on it on Saturday.

Next on the basket list is an actual woven basket. At the beginning of the month I took a workshop at the Rose Tree Fiber shop and made this great little basket:

I need to trim down some of the reed still, but I’m really happy with the way it turned out. I put all of my cloth napkins and my pot holders in it and it just looks so cute on the counter.

And then is the next basket! My friend Susan gave me a ton of her basketry supplies and I told myself after taking the workshop that after I finished all my deadlines I would reward myself by getting a rim for the basket I want to make and use up some of these leftovers making it. And so today and the yarn shop I bought a 12″ X 12″ sqare rim (with rounded corners) and I’m going to make a nice project basket for myself that will sit either on my utility shelf and hold all my sewing projects or under the side table and hold all my knitting/crochet projects. I haven’t decided yet.

I’m going to attempt to do a twill basket, but we will see how that goes. I might end up doing a plain weave instead.

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In other non basket related news while I have worked out yet this week I have been riding my bike every day and making sure not to avoid hills and that has felt really good. I’m on day two of no caffeine and going strong. I started to get a headache today in the late afternoon so I took a nap and feel super awesome since waking up.

I did not do the thursday sketch challenge and am a bit annoyed with myself for that because it was the ridiculous case of forgetting to finish my sketch yesterday when I finally had the time. I’m having some people over tomorrow for dinner and we are going to knit and paint and collage and crochet and so I plan on working on it then.

I have been making some progress on some of my knitting wips this week and I’ll post some pictures of those tomorrow.

See you all later!
Kristin

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