Basket Weaving Items needed (quantity per creation) · have just snipped. Keep weaving over and...
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1. Copy or print template onto cardboard and cut out. Punch the holes with a hole punch. Trace base on felt. Brush a layer of tacky glue on the bottom of the basket, press & stick the felt onto it. Repeat the same to adhere the felt to the base. You will notice the felt slightly overlaps the base of the fingers that make up the sides. Snip the edges of the felt following the grooves between the fingers. 2. Begin to weave over and under around the fingers of the frame. Push the twine into the grooves of the felt that you have just snipped. Keep weaving over and under the fingers until the end of first round. 3. Continue weaving and push the twine down to make them closer to each other. This will avoid gaps in between and will also hide the cardboard away. As you go higher, the frame will stand up vertically and form the sides of the basket. Continue until you are just over the holes level. Allow a long length of twine for rim stitching later. 4. To make the rim wrap your contrasting fabric/twine around the top of the basket and hold in place with a few clothes pegs. This is the green and white fabric shown in image 4. 5. Secure the rim by stitching the original twine through the holes removing the clothes pegs as you go along. Stitch again in the opposite direction to form a crisscross pattern. Something to do page 1 oscn.nz/activities 1 2 3 5 4 Instructions Items needed (quantity per creation) • Thick cardboard (at least 160gsm thick) • Felt • Weaving material (twine, fabric, ribbon, etc.) • Contrasting fabric/twine for the rim • Scissors • Hole punch • Tapestry needle • Clothes peg • PVA glue • Pencil Basket Weaving
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1. Copy or print template onto cardboard and cut out. Punch the holes with a hole punch. Trace base on felt. Brush a layer of tacky glue on the bottom of the basket, press & stick the felt onto it. Repeat the same to adhere the felt to the base. You will notice the felt slightly overlaps the base of the fingers that make up the sides. Snip the edges of the felt following the grooves between the fingers.
2. Begin to weave over and under around the fingers of the frame. Push the twine into the grooves of the felt that you have just snipped. Keep weaving over and under the fingers until the end of first round.
3. Continue weaving and push the twine down to make them closer to each other. This will avoid gaps in between and will also hide the cardboard away. As you go higher, the frame will stand up vertically and form the sides of the basket. Continue until you are just over the holes level. Allow a long length of twine for rim stitching later.
4. To make the rim wrap your contrasting fabric/twine around the top of the basket and hold in place with a few clothes pegs. This is the green and white fabric shown in image 4.
5. Secure the rim by stitching the original twine through the holes removing the clothes pegs as you go along. Stitch again in the opposite direction to form a crisscross pattern.
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Instructions
Items needed(quantity per creation)
• Thick cardboard (at least 160gsm thick)• Felt• Weaving material (twine, fabric, ribbon, etc.)• Contrasting fabric/twine for the rim• Scissors• Hole punch• Tapestry needle• Clothes peg• PVA glue• Pencil
Basket Weaving
