Building A Basket
When you're working with unfinished, irregular small branches you don't get to dictate any terms, you have to ask politely.
Sometimes you try to force "things", because certain "things" refuse to cooperate but then it is getting late and we are not making much progress, well then everybody is shouting and you put a screw through your fingertip.
It is time to put down the tools, apologize to the particular miserable little twigs and get something to drink. Tomorrow is another day and since I am the only sentient one of the bunch I am going to have to alter my approach. This is a view of the bottom of the birch basket and we are getting along swell.
Below is a side view. The reddish one in the middle has got some blood on it but you can see he got his way, smack in the middle and the red side one peaking out top right also got his way and I shed no more blood.
Tomorrow is another day and since I am the only sentient one of the bunch I am going to have to alter my approach which I did and the last basket went smoothly.
Building A Basket Building a basket is pure trouble and pleasure equally. You start with a idea of what could be and begin building, taking what you find along the way. Along that way there are twists and turns. Even an insignificant switch of birch has opinions. “I will not be a bottom piece!” Those were his very words and he would only accept the top rung where his iridescent bark would shine. Oh, the vanity. Or take that twig of alder that I rescued from the mud. had to build the entire basket around him and his bendy ways. If I had known what trouble he was going to cause I would have left him where he laid and the basket would have proceeded exactly according to plan and would have been completed, on time, to a polite clapping of hands and a resounding chorus of yawns. Swans Island-2021
left front-birch, alder, pine, right front-birch, birch, birch rear-red spruce, alder handle
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The kids roll their eyes when I ask them what something “wants to be”. Hopefully they get it when they grow up.
Building a home on a mountain side, no problem! Building a handheld basket, I’m gonna need a strong drink afterwards 😂good stuff