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jaydee67 · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: Recycled material baskets

I've spent this weekend on a course making plaited baskets from recycled materials. I made 2 from newspaper to try the techniques, then started one from the clothes line off the broken whirly gig and some rope from the beach - hmm, not sure I'll do that one again! Last night I made a couple from catalogues. Today I finished the clothes line one - eventually (going to put beach pebbles in it in the garden) and made a small bag from some matting found on the beach and started a waste paper basket from card and packaging strips. The only new materials I used were staples to hold things in place.

catalogues:

waste paper basket (to be finished when hubby gets the next parcel with blue packaging tape on it at work:

clothes line basket:

mat bag (bad photo)

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Caroline · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

They look great how do you make them?

trueblue · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject:

they look great Very Happy

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jaydee67 · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject:

Caroline wrote:

They look great how do you make them?

They all start off like this:

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catbells · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject:

WOW!

i never was very good at weaving!

they are wonderful JD - you're so artistic and talented in that department. it seems to be you can turn your hand to anything.

What a gift you have.

Catbells x

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Jack-of-all-Trades · prefect Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 9836 Location: england

They look good JD

dancingqueen · Moderator Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 45317

wow! so clever and using waste materials!!!!

i remember when one of mine was at guides they made a mat to sit on at meetings out of old newspapers in the same way!

i can see you scouring the beach every time you go out now Jaydee Smile

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Caroline · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:

Very clever way too much for my little brain! Sad

old bird · Top poster Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 1295

Wow! They're really good, you're very good at being creative Very Happy

Shirazee · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

wow, you make it look easy JD though I'm sure it's not Shocked

jaydee67 · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject:

The instructor made it look easy - my son made a newspaper one tonight - and tomorrow I get to do it all over again at school - just been practicing a border I had already forgotten it!

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jaydee67 · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:39 am Post subject:

The finished waste paper basket, now residing in Edinburgh with my son - it is waste cardboard packaging, packaging tape and the top is bound with old video tape:

and the baskets made by the children at school - it's amazing how you give the same materials and instructions to a group of children and you get such different results!

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sscatfish · Top poster Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 6831

lovely, they have done well

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summertime · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:02 am Post subject:

brilliant

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Tiki · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject:

JD I don't know how I've come to miss this thread. Sad

Those baskets are fantastic.

The clothes line basket is my personal favourite. If it was mine I would line it with moss and use it as a planter. Very Happy

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