wilow weaving

hi guys over the summer I was dragged to a 2 day willow weaving coarse (which I really enjoyed) though I don't think my friends did.
I decided to do a goose my friend decided to do a pig and Ben did a pheasant.

this is what we used to make them just willow and a pair of cutters. we did not need anything to hold it together it just holds itself together. it doesn't seem like it will when you are making it but it dose my goose is in my garden and it was in the town around me for a month before i got to bring it home.
 there is a joke that goes along side this picture i will let you see if you can work out what it is. but this is Kathrin making a circle out of the willow for the body of her pig. we all had a giggle about this as she did not relies what she had done. all the picas we did on the first day began with circles but varied with how many we used. and the picture on the right is ben trying to hide from the camera and failing as he always dose. it is so hard to get a decent picture of Ben but when you do it is so grate.

this is the first stage complete for my goose i had to do a large circle a medium and a small. I then had to tie all of them together with just the willow and not tying it in not's.











this is ben being stupid with the skeleton of his pheasant. like the idiot he is.

someone made a dragon fly on the first day and I thought it was amazing so i had to take a snap of it.  and this is my goose that I made. I finished it at the very last minuet of the day and I was so happy with it. and was really exited to do the next day.

The second day kicked of with me sitting on the flora to make my pig. however Ben found my glasses and decided to put them under his and take some pictures on my camera. so I am going to embarrass him and put them on here. that will teach him to steel my camera.

in the end I put my glasses on so that ben could not play with them. I was also listening to my music because people kept annoying me.











in the middle of the second day two harps turned up on the back of the stage. which where amazing. they where also made out of willow. they are still up in town on one of the shop.

Ben found my other camera and was taking videos of what was going on. and here is some more close up pictures of the harps. which are still amazing i wish i had done something as good. 



Ben made a second pheasant and said that one was a girl and that one was a boy. and they actually fitted together perfectly the shapes seem to mould together when you put them next to each other. as you can see my pig is not a pig and is a hedgehog which also sits in my garden. I decided that it looked more like a hedgehog than a pig when it got near to me finishing so I just made spikes and put them all over the back.
that is all from me today. let me know what your favirut picture from my blog is in the comments.