Coiled Baskets

I learned these spiral forms when I was 10, at a summer program that I whined atrociously about having to attend. It seems to have stuck in the mind-crannies as a useful Skill.

There's a lovely how-to here



These baskets go well with mexican hot chocolate,
probably because chocolate and
making things are both good for the soul.



The link says cotton clothesline for a core, but fat macrame yarn works for a soft feel, or discarded phone line for a tough rigid form.

The stitch is a figure-eight around adjacent coils of core, with wraps between stiches to cover the core as it's added.

Big tapestry needle, legs crossed "indian style" as they used to say.

Aleph

The beginning part is always tricky. Expect some fumbles and swears.
The first attempt will likely be a bulging lopsided omphalos; that's OK, the first time's just for practice.
Any shape begins with a spiral.
The first thing I made was a mini fire hydrant. To my ten-year-old mind it looked just like one, though it probably wouldn't now ; )

Finish the end by tapering it & lashing it down. End it well.


A Sacred Vessel

A short fat Caldera, singing to the sky.

An empty vessel, to be filled with as much of Life as it may hold.

Aren't we all.

and also this.

My mind can form no proper adjective for Die Antwoord, but they are certainly very much so.