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Free Online Basket Projects

Always wanted to learn how to make your own baskets? You've come to the right place. This group of websites offer free basket making tutorials and guides. From beginners to expert basket makers there's something here for all skills.

As an added bonus, all the website owners have included their favorite basket making tips.

Great Free Tutorials & Guides Websites

Pine Needle Basket Tutorial

This wonderful site from the state of South Carolina celebrates the natural world around us by sharing the work of talented artists specializing in art from natural materials and provides students and teachers with a number of excellent step-by-step tutorials to make your own craft projects. Their pine needle basket making tutorial is one of our favorites.

Basket Making Crafty Tip
A small length of a straw or other tube-like guide will help to ensure that your coils remain a consistent length. Just insert an existing pine needle bundle into your guide and slide it along as you add new pine needles. Insert the new needles into the tube and you'll be assured that each coil of your basket is of a consistent thickness.

 
 
 

How to Make a Birch Bark Basket

Nature Skills is a website dedicated to sharing wilderness skills with everyone around the globe. Among their many wonderful tutorials on making items from nature, they offer this tutorial on how to make a birch bark basket.

Basket Making Crafty Tip
Never take birch bark from a live tree. Look around the forest floor for a fallen birch tree. You'll find that birch trees rot from the inside out often leaving the beautiful, white, papery bark virtually ready to use.

 
 
 
 
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