A plaited basket and some encouragement

You can use just about any pliable material to weave baskets. Here, I've folded strips of funny papers for a colorful low-cost, recycled-materials vessel. This basket appears in my book Time to Weave where I've given instructions on how to weave plaited baskets.

As creators, I think we sometimes get stymied by fear: we're not good enough, we think we don't have any ideas, we don't know if our designs will work... I want to encourage you to just keep going, try to push self-doubt away. The only way to improve and get to the place you want to go is to keep working. I try to keep this Maslow quote in mind when I feel uncertain.

“If you are afraid of making (a) crazy mistake, then you’ll never get any of the bright ideas either.”
-A.H. Maslow

Quote of the day

One of my plaited baskets woven from strips of folded wall paper. My materials, free BTW, are from a wallpaper sample book. Just ask your local decorating store for their outdated sample books. They will welcome your request.

Quote of the day.

"Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing—desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little."
--The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather