This easy, accessible, and fun approach to basketmaking offers instructions for 18 beautiful and useful baskets.

Beginning with simple basket designs and progressing to more-advanced techniques, you build new skills with each project. Follow along from one to the next, or jump ahead to the more advanced baskets to expand your intermediate skills.

The practical projects include a market basket, square-to-round storage basket, spiral twill basket, catch-all bathroom basket, cat-head bowl, and many others. Instructions for adding embellishments, color, and shaping are included to help new basketmakers turn a project into a personal treasure.

A chart for designing your own market baskets in six different sizes is invaluable, and photos of work by today's top basketmakers serve as inspiration. This book is the ideal guide for anyone interested in learning to make handbuilt baskets.

Book Features

• These projects, completed in a few days each, systematically teach you skills for beautiful results 
• Accessible for beginners, and still challenging for basket makers with some experience .
• All 18 designs lead to unlimited variations through your choices in embellishments, colours, and more