How to Weave a Willow Basket - Part 1

you so I've got three which I'm going to split this is one way of splitting and then you put these through that one so the other thing I forgot to say we want to have a straight one two with what is termed spite a bend in so you've got one like that and the other one has got to bend the other way so that's the first one is this a straight one for the second one and then bent one for the third one put that down the opposite way so that they sort of sit and you and you have them spread like that and then these other ones want to go in alongside that one in there that one in there so that's that's our basic start ideally these want to be nice and spread book and then I'd it's not always an ideal world now we want to start weaving can I get something something Weaver's just cut the yeah and of that so these want to go up inside there and euros go underneath and on top it goes on top and then underneath and you go around the three for two laps and when you get back to the start you then do exactly the same action but you start to do individuals so this one is going to come up in between that one this one is going to go down where that one come out and back up the next one then your second one goes down and back out and it's it's this over and under over and under look simple when I'm doing it but it's just just a case of repetitively just weaving in underneath and back up just cut these tails off so you keep going round until your your Weaver's run out and then we're going to add in some new ones now we started with it with a thin end but when we add the new ones in we're going to start with a thick end just makes it easier in an ideal world you go thick too thick thin too thin but when you're learning it's much simpler to just do start with a thick and you're ending up on a thin so at the point where I'll I can add new ones in cut a point on these and basically I'm just going to push this in where that one's coming out and just weave this one as you would have weaved the other one I'll lose this one once more and put this one in where that one comes out I'm going to weave that one instead and these ones can now be just trimmed off I can trim them neater later so that's what we do and as we get further out we want to start bending these as we're doing it so I usually do this on the ground under my knee but it's a quite camera-friendly me down under the table but that's you can see the basics behind and in front this one these two want to go towards each other behind and in front that's them so you keep doing that until you get to whatever size you want if you want to go bigger you need to start putting extra Weaver's in you can put weave it in alongside that one and then spread them so that you're having the distance and you can do that all around and that means you can do a large base but I'm going to stick with that that's about the right size you