{"id":143,"date":"2011-01-11T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2011-01-11T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:18:18","slug":"baskets-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"baskets, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"completed basket\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9696222@N02\/5346207511\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5048\/5346207511_6c3198da64.jpg\" alt=\"completed basket\" width=\"411\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>As promised, baskets: the next victim in my ongoing quest to learn how to make everything. This is a potato basket, and the instructions came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/157990789X\/ref=oss_product\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a> by Lyn Siler. It&#8217;s an excellent book with a ton of beautiful basket designs and very clear instruction. The potato basket is a pretty simplistic one, and now I&#8217;m itching to try weaving some of the more advanced baskets. I started with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"basket materials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9696222@N02\/5346201201\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5166\/5346201201_e8ee5a4858.jpg\" alt=\"basket materials\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>This is a bundle of #6 round reed and quarter inch flat reed. Along with a 10&#8243; diameter wooden hoop for the rim and a little tung oil for color, this is all I used for this basket. Reeds smell a lot like hay, which had me constantly reminded of petting zoo smells. It was strangely more appealing than you might think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"basket detail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9696222@N02\/5346204529\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5081\/5346204529_9b4504eb53.jpg\" alt=\"basket detail\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>As a fan of both containers of all kinds and weaving, baskets fit pretty perfectly into the realm of things I like. There will definitely be more to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Next up: methods for staving off the winter chill brought on by all this snow! Or if you&#8217;re not in a snowy place, just general winter coldness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, baskets: the next victim in my ongoing quest to learn how to make everything. This is a potato basket, and the instructions came from this book by Lyn Siler. It&#8217;s an excellent book with a ton of beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}