Basketry Evolved - Intermediate Basketry
Continue your journey in reed basketry with three unique, eye-catching basketry designs.
You'll make a customizable set of hanging baskets, a classic bean pot, and expand your skills with the catshead base.
Hanging Vase Baskets
Criss-cross open base baskets woven in a plain weave stair-step pattern.
Tension determines the shape. Finished with an x-lashing.
Dimensions: 3-inch wide base, differing widths, 8 or 12 inches tall. Made to fit a standard mason jar to hold bouquets.
Bean Pot Basket
Twined round base. Stair-step continuous woven walls. Finished with an x-lashed rim and a wire handle.
This is a classic basket historically used when shelling beans. It’s a great basket for a planter, shopping, storage, or Easter.
Dimensions: 9-inch base, 8-inch opening, 10-inches tall
Catshead Basket
Open base worked in a cathead style to create four “feet.”
Woven in a start-stop weave with a basic lashed rim.
Dimensions: 9-inch base, 10-inch opening.
What you receive:
Full-Color Basket Pattern Instruction Guide
The pattern will include the following elements:
🧺 Materials list
🧺 Tools list
🧺 Cut list (lengths of stakes and other basket elements)
🧺 Outline of the basket weaving process
🧺 Written directions with photos demonstrating each step.
Basket Weavers Guide
The PDF Basket Weavers Guide includes:
🔍 Basket weaving glossary
🔍 Rattan basket materials guide
🔍 Weaving technique photo guide
🔍 Basket weaving tools guide
Video Tutorial
🎥 You will receive a series of bite-sized videos leading you through each step of the basket weaving process.
🎥 The videos are shot from multiple angles as I walk you step-by-step through the weaving process.
Tips and Inspiration
💡We want to do everything we can to help you succeed on this journey.
💡Woven through the course are helpful tips, creative inspiration, resources, and sometimes discounts!
💡You may be weaving in the privacy of your own home, but you’re not alone.
Example Curriculum
- Welcome to the Hanging Vase Basket Course (2:52)
- Materials and Tools (0:44)
- Hanging Vase Basket Instruction Manual
- 🧺 Basket Weaving 101: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them 🚫
- Setting up a Workspace (0:11)
- Keeping Reed Damp (0:40)
- Cutting the Stakes (1:45)
- Laying out the Base (0:58)
- Prepping the First Weaver (1:27)
- Tension and Ease (17:14)
- Weaving the Body (8:22)
- Cut and Tuck (1:35)
- 🎶 Weave to the Rhythm: Music to Enhance Your Basket Weaving Experience 🧺
- Setting up Rim (5:43)
- Lashing the Rim (5:32)
- Adding a Hanger (1:18)
- Final Thoughts (2:36)
- How to use your hanging flower vase basket
- Welcome to Weaving a Bean Pot Basket Course (2:21)
- Bean Pot Basket Instruction Manual
- Find more time to craft
- Materials and Tools (2:10)
- Cut and Mark the Spokes (3:11)
- Lay out First Set of Stakes (2:03)
- Working with Round Reed (1:58)
- Twining the Base (12:26)
- Adding the Second Set of Stakes (4:36)
- Checking the Diameter (1:37)
- Every Basket is Unique (0:41)
- Setting up to Weave the Walls (7:30)
- Weaving with Tension and Ease (4:55)
- Adding New Lengths of Reed - Splicing (3:45)
- Continue Weaving (4:41)
- Finishing the Walls (3:50)
- Cutting and Tucking the Spokes (2:38)
- Adding the Handle Eyes (2:25)
- Creating and Setting up the Rim - HD 720p (6:03)
- Finding inspiration
- Lashing the Rim (8:47)
- Attaching the Handle (1:55)
- Continue Weaving - HD 720p (4:41)
- Final Thoughts (2:41)
- How to use your bean pot basket
- Welcome to Weaving a Cathead Basket (0:27)
- Materials and Tools (1:06)
- Catshead Basket Instruction Manual
- Money saving tips for basket weavers
- Cutting and Marking the Stakes (3:34)
- Laying out Base (2:47)
- Squaring the Base (2:31)
- Twining the Base (5:27)
- Upsetting the Stakes (1:15)
- Prepping the First Weaver (1:18)
- Forming the Cathead Shape (2:43)
- Weaving the Walls (25:52)
- Cutting and Tucking (2:51)
- Mental health benefits of crafting
- Weaving the Final Row (1:08)
- Lashing the Rim (6:41)
- Setting up the Rim (4:51)
- Final Thoughts (2:38)
- How to use your cathead basket