by Jane Haselden | Apr 20, 2022 | Basketry & Natural Crafts
Today I am finally plucking up the courage to talk to you, about how you can help to support my work with basketry and natural crafts and also have fun learning and making along with me. Have you ever wondered what that red “Become a patron” button is all...
by Jane Haselden | Mar 31, 2022 | Basketry & Natural Crafts
I have wanted to work exclusively with plants from my garden or plants that I can gather locally, for a long while. I made a good amount of progress towards this goal, early last year, but having to move to several temporary homes, whilst waiting to find our proper...
by Jane Haselden | Jan 19, 2022 | Basketry & Natural Crafts
January is flying by and there is no sign of the winter blues here. There is so much to be done and our new home gives me so much inspiration for making! My very first basket of the year, was one that I made just for myself. I found some old baling twine in one of our...
by Jane Haselden | Oct 28, 2021 | Basketry & Natural Crafts
I have been continuing to work with natural dyes this year, building on what I learned in late 2020. A lot of these dyes have been used on raffia for my basketry, but I have also been trying to keep track of my results on some quiltmakers cotton, so that I can, over...
by Jane Haselden | Jun 10, 2021 | Basketry & Natural Crafts
Spring is a plentiful time for collecting plant fibres to use in basketry and dyes. You may have seen in my earlier post, Making Dandelion Paper and Dandelion Beads that the petals of these wonderful springtime weeds, can be turned into a wonderful textural paper and...
by Jane Haselden | May 15, 2021 | Basketry & Natural Crafts
The past week and a half, have been a busy time of working with dandelion petals. I have been waiting for the arrival of dandelion season, since the end of spring last year. Like lots of you, we foraged for dandelions in 2020, to make dandelion jelly. It was...
