Guild Project - Rainbow Chevron

Pam L - Market Basket

Bob G - Victorian Secret

Bob G - Craft sale baskets

Peggy W - Sewing Basket

Pam L - Indian Style Basket

Pam B - Basket with two colored Gretchen Border

Barb T - Basket with Gretchen Border

Peggy W - Cathead basket with Gretchen Border

Bob G - Multi-colored basket

Gloria L - butterfly basket made with 3 hoops

Bob G - Variety of baskets

Guild Project - Beads & Waves

Guild Project - Anything Basket

Barbara T - Large utility basket--original design. Made in a class taught by Pat Jeffers. Incorporates the use of reed, beads, woven fabric, & sea grass with antler accent.

Barbara T - Wall hanging done in a class taught by Cass Schorsch. The piece, called Shining Woods, incorporates copper wire, strips of various tree barks, & dyed seagrass.

Gail K - This is a version of Kari Lonning's "Round and "Hairy" basket found in her book, "The Art of Basketry" page 59. I taught this basket at the Desert Botanical Gardens in August, 2007. You use #4 RR for the spokes, twine with #3 RR and insert 5-inch long # 3 RR pieces either as you twine or after you completed a row. A great fun way to use up those scrap pieces that are are too long to just throw away. Don't have dyed reed , it is great in all natural or smoked and natural. About a year later, I noticed that Cherilyn Braun was teaching a very similar basket that she calls "Rainbow Porcupine". You can visit her website: http://www.basketweaving.biz/.

Gail K - In Flo Hoppe's first book, " Wicker Basketry" the directions are on page 147 and the photo is #16 in the color page insert.
I loved the simplicity of the design. I had two batches of smoked reed, one just didn't go with anything. So I used these two smoked and natural #3 RR reed in place of Flo's gray, pink and rust. A good practice basket even if I won't like it when it was completed.
Well, it is one of the first baskets that I was very happy with my shaping. It is also a basket that I want to weave again.
It has a southwest "feel" and subtle design.

Gail K - This basket is my version on Debra Hammond's Arabian Nights. Debra created this pattern for a small 4-inch diameter by 3.5-inches high basket. She then contributed it to Lyn Syler's "A Basketmaker's Odyssey" page 18 with instructions for 8-inch diameter by 5-inches high.
I have taught this basket several times. It appeals to folks because of the contrast in texture. You replace a reed weaver with textured yarn and what a fun basket to weave. The original basket included beads on the spokes above the yarn section. I could not find beads I liked so I eliminated them.
Make any pattern your own! Would you have known about the beads, if I didn't tell you?

Barbara T - Original design antler basket incorporates reed, seagrass, and beads. A unique feature is the double layer of weaving--both layers emanating from the same prong on the antler.