I then started to make the little circles. This was tedious because it involved folding, making the circle, gluing it shut, holding it shut with a paperclip, waiting for it to dry and then trying to figure a way for it to be glued to the base and each other. Without a hot glue gun, I just couldn't see how it could be done. Too many steps. And I don't like waiting for things to dry. So here I kind of went off roading with my crafty project.
Instead, I rolled the magazine pages up tightly (easier than folding) and stuck them into the edges of the base and secured them with more glue and the a few extra wraps of paper around the base. The I started weaving folded pages through the uprights. It took me a while to find the rhythm of it and certainly I will never again say that something that is easy is like basket-weaving. Because basket-weaving is flipping hard! Here it is at the beginning of the weaving part:
Once I had had enough, I mean once I got it to a height I liked, my husband folded down the uprights and weaved those together. And here it is:
It looks great in the bathroom, it used up at least one magazine and it is recyclable itself. So now I have no excuse for not flossing.
--- Jude
10 comments:
i love it! but you really do need a hot glue gun. don't you have a panduro in sønderborg? go get one. they're not even expensive. :-)
Now we are minds alike. It so happens that last week I got a book from the library on how to weave baskets!!!! But you took action and I didn't but that I wasn't in need of one, I thought I might be fun to try.
Your basket is absolutely gorgeous, congratulations.
Jude, That is fantastic! I will have to try this..ahh maybe with the pages that I don't pull out of my Mother Earth News :)
Now that is a great idea! I have so many old magazines!
This is fabulous!
I love this too, Jude! And of course I want to try this out as well!
Wonder if it would be possible to use plastic bottle caps for the first version, using a glue-gun ... Maybe a smaller container - or loads of caps!
In the late 70:s I once wove a waste paper basket with newspapers in a similar way - I believe I used double brown package cardboard for the bottom and upper lining. But I remember it bothered me that the newspaper turned quite yellow after some time. I guess magazines are a better option for this - and magazines are harder to recycle elsewhere anyway.
What's the black lining at the bottom of the second picture?
Thanks all! Anneli/Bockfilz, the black lining is actually my belt wrapped around the base to help set the glue as I had added another round at the base to secure the uprights and I was doing this with craft glue and glue sticks.
I like the idea of the plastic bottle caps very much as they are everywhere and not so recyclable. I could see that as a little basket for coins or keys or something. I also thought this morning that if you cut up toilet rolls that you could make rounds easily. But as you note they may fade weirdly.
Hey Jude, thanks for answering - clever of you to use the belt for that :-)!
I thought about toilet rolls too, but guess they would have to be covered for better looks and stability - maybe with strips of magazine paper, or alu foil/candy wrapper -
another idea might be to cut up 2-3 cm 'rings' of soft plastic bottles, like for ketchup, shampoo etc -(these might even be stapled instead of glued.)
But as you say, the bottle caps are many enough and hard finding good solutions for ...
OOH, I gotta go get the magazines out of the recycling bin!
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