Basket

I bought this beautiful book two years ago
and felt it was time to finally try the very good explanations.

 

This basket on the title page is still too complicated for me.

Mine will be easier to make.
I use about 6 m of clothesline and thin red cotton
and start to wrap.
My strips are about 1/2" wide.

I am wrapping and wrapping

and then I am starting to coil very firmly.
Then I sew the cross in the middle with straight stitches
to hold it together -
and I am going on with zig-zag stitches to join the coil
round and round till I feel that it is big enough or the end
of the wrapped clothesline arrived at my sewing machine.

And here is my little red basket with blue-green stripes for more
interest. 

I will give it to a good friend.
But I will still embellish it with beads - and show it in a future post.