Yuletide Treat Basket Pattern

Yuletide Treat

Pattern Compliments Of:

Suzanne Moore's NC Basket Works
130 Main St. • Post Office Box 744
Vass, NC 28394-0744
910-245-3049 • 800-338-4972
Fax: 910-245-3243
Email: suzanne@ncbasketworks.com
Website: www.ncbasketworks.com

Top Diameter: 4", Height 4"

Materials
3" Round Wood Base w/ slit YT wire handle w/eyelets 3/8" Flat Flat - spokes 3/8" Flat Oval - rims #1 Round - twining	Seagrass - rim filler 11/64" Flat Oval - weavers & lashing Maxi Cure Glue - optional 1/4" Flat Flat Dyed - 1 piece each red & green

All supplies to make this basket are available at NC Basket Works.

A complete Kit is also available @ $10.50 Kit
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Cut 16 spokes from 3/8" FF each 6" long. Soak briefly. Insert the spokes evenly around the base (gluing the spokes into the slit is optional.) Twine with #1R twice around the base keeping the spokes flat. Do Not Cut The Round Reed. Gently upset the spokes and twine two more times around, encouraging the spokes to go upward. (This will be a total of 4 time around of twining. Also remember that your top diameter shold be 4".)

Weave 14 rows of start and stop using 11/64" FO. Then weave 1 row 1/4" FF green and 1 row 1/4" FF red, and 1 row 1/4 FF natural (rim row).

Pack well. Choose your handle spokes - these will be spokes which are opposite each other and will be cut off flush. Position your eyelets here. Cut and tuck all remaining spokes, bending over the extended wire on both sides of the eyelet. Rim with 3/8" FO, seagrass between rims, and lash with 11/64" FO. Attach the wire handle.