HOMEMADE WICKER BASKET WITH FLOWERS

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Hello dear readers, I can tell you how to weave a wonderful basket of flowers on your own at home. This is a decorative basket, which will certainly delight the homes of all family members, and if children try to make such a basket themselves, then this can give them pleasure.

To make our basket we will take:
one). Notebooks with newspaper sheets (newspaper thinner than usual and therefore more convenient than them);
2). Item for twisting (for example, a rod from under the handle);
3). Scissors and glue;
four). Blue gouache paint, brush and water tank.
To make flowers you need:
one). Blue fabric;
2). Thread and needle;
3). A sheet of colored paper in green;
four). Scissors.

First, we cut newspaper sheets into oblong parts:

Then we wrap individually each newspaper sheet as shown in the photo:

Glue the tube at its beginning, middle and end:

You should get this tube:

After we flatten it, we get such a twig:

We collect the rods for weaving the bottom of the basket of seven pieces and glue them in a cross-wise position. We also make the main twig, connecting four ordinary twigs. In total, 32 twigs are now selected for weaving the bottom:

We put the main twig and start weaving from its middle, so that the left and right sides are equal.

We braid the first circle to them:

We braid the second and third circles, adding new ones to the main rod if the old ones end:

After the third round, we begin to braid each twig separately.

We make four circles of simple weaving, in which the main rods do not intertwine at all, after which we begin to weave with a “rope”:

We braid the whole basket to the top in this spirit:

When you want to finish weaving, then the main bars can simply be cut and glued one into the other, and then hidden by gluing down.

Bend the protruding side bars down and, after passing through the weaving, cut and glue:

I first tried to weave the handle of the basket out of two twigs with a “zigzag”, but already being woven, this handle lost its shape after painting and fell. The rod handle had to be replaced later with a cardboard one. The basket must first be painted from the inside, then from the outside (so that there are no stains from the paint, if painted first from the outside, and then from the inside).

Making a cardboard pen:

I also wove it in a “zigzag”, but didn’t decide to color it, because it, unlike the newspaper, has no text, and is suitable in color.

Here is a woven handle should work with us now. But it looks messy because it does not attach anything inside, on which we will need to work a little in the future:

We color the basket completely and select the wiring for the handle (so that the handle holds):

We thread the wiring handles as shown in the photo:

The upper side of the basket (if desired) can be braided over the border with a thin “twig” of white cardboard, and several decorative roses can be sewn on top (there are three on the basket, but the third is bent to the other side).

Such roses were acquired by us in a gift shop, but we can make them ourselves now. Take a few long rectangular rags:

Taking one of them, roll it thinly and connect with several stitches in only a few places.
We need to sew a patchwork only at the beginning, middle and end (it is impossible to sew along the entire length because then the seam will stand out when twisted). We turn the edge into a small tube and sew it (or glue it) on the bottom, after which we make a fold in the fabric and hem it:

(We needed a stitch in the center of the craft so that the rags of the trimmed fabric would not go outside - we sewed them).
Continuing to twist the fabric as well, twist it in a spiral and hem (glue) the ends:

It turns out such a rosette:

We make three such roses of different sizes and sew them at the ends to each other, and then cut the leaves of green colored paper pasted with adhesive tape on top:

We carefully sew the leaves and roses to a piece of cloth or a plastic bag (but it would be better, of course, to fix them with a stapler if we could find staples for it):