Basket obsession. A confession.

InfamyInfamy

I gave away a load of stuff this week on freecycle. One of the people to pick stuff up was a nice guy who is a BASKETMAKER. Do you think his family would miss him if I squirrelled him away in my shed & got him making baskets for me??
:rotfl::T:rotfl:

mambury

InfamyInfamy wrote: »

I gave away a load of stuff this week on freecycle. One of the people to pick stuff up was a nice guy who is a BASKETMAKER. Do you think his family would miss him if I squirrelled him away in my shed & got him making baskets for me??
:rotfl::T:rotfl:

now if he was good looking as well as practical! PERFECT!

Patchwork_Quilt

There was a basket hanging around at work. I have to confess casting coveteous eyes at it. Unfortunately, someone thought it would make a good prop for a theatre group and it got whisked away.

Somebody stop me!

sammyjammy

Another basket obsessive her I stick to seagrass ones mostly. Is it just me or is it just another excuse for my habit of never throwing anything away!

I literally have seagrass baskets in every room of my house

InfamyInfamy

mambury wrote: »

now if he was good looking as well as practical! PERFECT!

He was quite!!!!!!!!!

rhubarbcottage

Hi, everyone.

What a lovely thread!

I love baskets and have shopped with them for years. My laundry basket is 22 years old and looks like new. When a friend admired it and asked where I'd bought it, I said "sorry, the place closed down 15 years ago!".

I admire that it takes alot of wear and tear to make them unuseable. In three decades I've only got rid of one. We didn't throw it out, it was buried with full honours in the compost bin after our puppy well and truly killed it.

Gigervamp

Another basket lover here.

Someone a while back in the thread mentioned the Ali Baba washing baskets and that reminded me of the time when my DD was about 3. We had one of those baskets and one night she decided that that was where she was going to sleep! We tried to tell her that she wouldn't be comfortable, but she was a stubborn child and insisted that she would be comfortable. All the washing got pulled out and her pillow was put in the bottom, then she clambered in.

Suffice to say, she didn't stay very long in there!

morwenna

Another basket lover here too

This is all the fault of my Dad, who used to have a basket shop & would make wicker baskets to order - including all the school cookery ones and dog beds made to measure!

I still have a few of his - a large oval log basket, a trug which is full of pine cones on the fire place and the Ali Baba basket in the bathroom. I recall he used to make cane headboards too, the hairdresser next door to his shop used one as a window dressing. (He traded for haircuts for us three girls, how MSE was that?! Feather cuts though, I've tried and failed to repress the memory!)

We used a picture of him making an Ali Baba basket at his funeral (in his Christian Slater lookee-likee days back in the seventies )

I can probably still remember how to make one too. :T

Justamum

morwenna wrote: »

I can probably still remember how to make one too. :T

There you go then - a great business opportunity!

Whistling_Gypsy

I blame you lot.

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20091130.p.Wicker_Basket.ar10

Great price!!