Pine Needle Baskets

[christine]

This is one of my pine needle baskets woven with loblolly pine needles and imitation sinew. I have been trying to combine my two passions by adding wire creations to the baskets.

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[glenda]

That is gorgeous!! You are very talented!!
I love the bumle bee, it is a bumble bee isn't it? - Would love a tutorial on him!!!
How ever long did this basket take you to complete?

[Tela]

That's beautiful, Christine! I would love to see more. Your weave is gorgeous! I love all the bumplies in it. Do you gather your own needles?

[laura]

WOW, it's something I've never seen before! Pine needles?? Cool!
Very interesting and beautiful!!

How long are those needles? (pines that grow here have them quite short compared to some I've seen in other countries)

[christine]

Thank you for your positive comments! Years ago, when I started weaving, I would send my daughters into the back yard to gather needles which were 5-6" long. A dear friend whose mom lives in NC brought me some Loblolly needles which are thicker and 12" long! Luckily, she keeps me supplied.
The bumble bee is from a tutorial by Julie Sigmund...I think I found it on Etsy.
The baskets take from 30-40 hours and are based on the Native American and Gullah traditions.

[laura]

Very interesting. Until today I never knew this technique existed.. Have to explore some more.

Please post more pics

12'' No wonder this technique was born with such supplies available.. (I have a ruler on my table which is exactly that long.. and I keep staring at it in disbelief.. wow.. I need to see that tree in real life..)

[christine]

This basket has black walnuts woven into it. It is such a gift to create something from nature. The Loblolly pine is a southern tree. Its pine cones are 14" tall, definately would not want one dropping on your head. The baskets worked well with the smaller needles until I realized the basket weaving went quicker and they are so sturdy with the bigger needles. Thank you for the positive responses!

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[Tela]

WOW!! I am in LOVE with this! I'm blown away by the walnuts and the weave! That looks like so much work, but boy, is it a thing of beauty. ;D You are so talented! This is really stunning and very impressive!

[christine]

Awww..... Thanks TelaT. The biggest challenge is the time they take. The cool thing is the basket seems to tell me what shape it wants to take. I can have an idea going in but then the needles direst me. I am hoping to get that way with wire. I feel you have achieved that, am I right?

[Kate]

Christine, you're baskets are beautiful. I just bought the book "Pine Needle Basketry" and my hubby and I collected some needles. We live in Florida. I've cleaned them and bundled them and just started my attempt to weave. Funny, mine doesn't look like yours! lol I'm thinking of buying Nadine Spier's DVD's. I'm just afraid I might be spreading myself too thin. I've been devoting so much time to wire.

[christine]

Welcome Kate!! You are into my two passions, wire work and pine needle baskets and one of my daughter's is Kate so already we have a lot of commonalities. I have been weaving baskets for about 25 years. I find the baskets are a good balance to the jewelry which is often more intense.

Judy Mallow's book is a very good one. She lives in NC. I posted this picture as she sells the acrylic coated agates I use on some of my basket bases.

Looking forward to getting to know you and thank you for the positives words on my baskets!

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[Tela]

Your basket is beautiful, Christine! How do you keep the agate in the basket?

It's hard to imagine that wire work is more intense than making one of those baskets. From my perspective, I think the baskets would be harder to do.

You do really beautiful work, Christine

Kate, I think a lot of us have more than one artistic outlet. It helps to have something different to work on when one muse has gone.

[christine]

Thank you, Tela The acrylic has a rim all the way around with holes predrilled into it. The start is a little tricky. For a long time, I just used the more natural colors, browns and grays. This firefly needed some water to land by.

Changing the creative outlets we do is also good on our bodies, utilizing different muscle sets.

[susan]

I am really wowed by your baskets. I especially like the first one that you posted with the element of the bee fluttering around the neck of the basket. It is cool that you can blend two of your creative passions into one piece. I recently took a vacation with my aunt, who is a knitter. She was knitting a "forest" sweater while we stayed at a cabin. She told us that she felt that by knitting that sweater, while staying in a log cabin in the forest, brought special meaning to it. I could envision you doing the same with your pine needles and basket making right in the forest for which you found the needles. Guess you could call that "forest energy."

[christine]

Susan, I like that alot..."Forest Energy" Thank you!!

[Kate]

Christine - I found a pine needle class about 60 miles from me in Florida. She still has an opening. It's on Wednesday and I'm so excited! She wants me to bring the one I started on to see how I did. On boy, it looks terrible! lol I'm really looking forward to it.

[Tela]

Kate- keep us posted on your class. I'm really interested

[christine]

Kate, Good for you! I am looking forward to hearing all about your class and your creations!

[Kate]

I had a great time and learned lots. I found out that I wasn't using long enough pine needles. Mine were about six inches. The longer ones are easier to work with. We also worked with sinew and she showed us how easy it was to dye it to a color we would want. We can also dye the pine needles too. I'm happy I went and once I get better at the basics, I'll go back to her studio and learn more. Now, while we are roaming the roads of Florida on our motorcycles, I told Ken (my sweetiepie) that we will have to look for long needled trees. I'll be carrying some plastic bags with me!

[Tela]

Great! Sounds like you had a very productive time. Sometimes, you just need to see someone else do it.

[christine]

It sounds like you had a great class. The Loblolly needles I use are 10-12" long, sometimes longer. The weaving goes much faster(relatively speaking) and the basket is sturdier. If your needles stay in a plastic bag, make sure you punch air holes. If there is any moisture in the needles they will mold within the plastic. With the dyed needles, the weaving needs to stay out of prolonged sunlight as the dyes do tend to fade.
Enjoy!

[maryalece]

Oh, your baskets are so wonderful!!!! I would love to learn to make these. My son-in-law is a Native American, and his great grandmother was a famous Native basketweaver whose work has been showcased in museums and is very well-known in the Native traditions. There are some weaves I have been told I would be allowed to learn, but not all, as some are only taught to the tribal elders.

Their baskets are made from cedar bark primarily, as the cedar is considered to be sacred within the tribe. With the deforestation that is happening in many areas, the tribes have also begun to use more locally grown grasses. The baskets are absolutely amazing. My daughter has been to a class and said it was incredible - all ages of people from the tribe are there learning new weaves from each other, men and women alike.

That's all I know about it, but I do know that your pine needle baskets are fabulous!!! One day, maybe I will b e able to learn how to do weaving like that. I would certainly love to learn.

I just did another look at the pictures you have posted, and all i can really say is, "WOW!" Really amazing work- such patience, talent, and your ability to let the needles tell you how they want to be woven is all so beautiful.

[christine]

Maryalece, Thank you for your positive words about my baskets. I have great reverance and respect for the Native American basket weavers. To weave with cedar has to create an incredible basket with a wonderful smell. It would be an honor to learn some of the traditional weaves.

This basket has a fitted lid. We have a yard full of sweet gum balls and I finally found a use for a few of them! The bee is from a JewlieBeads tutorial.

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[Tela]

Christine! Your talent for baskets is amazing! I love this one- the shape, the lid, the gumball (great use and great look!) and the bee. How big is this? I want to say that I hope it is little because it would be so cute, but wouldn't a large one be awesome, too? Does it smell like pine? Pine brings back so many memories for me.

Do you regularly weave? I mean, is this something you still do often? I never thought to try it- didn't think I could, honestly. This takes real skill! You go, girl!

[christine]

Thanks Dear Tela! This basket is 17" around and 4 1/2" tall. All of these posted are recent ones. Usually, I weave baskets in the evening and work on jewelry during the day when the light is better. If you are ever in Richmond, stop on by and I will give you a lesson!!

[Tela]

That's a good size. You know we don't live that far apart

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