Weave a Pine Needle Basket
Recently I was walking through some craft stores when I came upon on that had a very uniquely designed pine needle basket. Now I love these kinds of baskets and wanted to do one for myself one day but I have just not found the time to do so just yet. For those of you who are thinking about or want to be able to weave a pine needle basket for yourself, here is a bit of direction to assist you.
Weaving a pine needle basket is a lot easier than you thought. To begin with you need to be able to distinguish the type of pine needles that you will need for making the baskets. For instance, you need to take the needles from the long-leafed pine tree. This is because these needles tend to grow up to 15 inches and is appropriate to create a basket, but the smaller leaf pine tree needles only grow up to six inches. Essentially, just like using a R4i Card, you work with what you are comfortable with or what you can get.
First you need to place the pine needles in a pan with boiling water and then keep it there for approximately thirty minutes. Then drain off the water and then wrap those needles in a towel.
Next remove the caps from the pine needles using your fingers and shaft those needles with the dull edge of a butter knife or your scissors. Refrain from breaking the needles since it is easier to gauge the longer needles.
You should start-off with three pine needles and use a double overhand knot to tie the pieces together.
Next place the bundles of pine needles on top of the nuts and simply continue like this until the whole basket is made.
Lastly simply cut off the outlying threads from the basket and its ready!
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