Things You'll Need:
- Pine needles Thread Needles Raffia
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Step 1
Soak your pine needles in boiling water for 30 minutes. Pat them dry with a towel or newspaper.
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Step 2
Use your fingers to scrape the sheaths off the pine needles.
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Step 3
Separate the pine needles into bundles. Each bundle should have about a dozen pine needles.
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Step 4
Fold one bundle over about two finger widths from the end.
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Step 5
Thread your needle with raffia. Sew the folded end of the bundle together to make a wedge. The rest of the basket will coil outward from this wedge.
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Step 6
Coil the pine needle bundle around the wedge once more. Now you have two coils. Sew them together.
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Step 7
Continue coiling the bundle around and sewing each coil until the bottom of the basket is about 5 inches wide.
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Step 8
Coil the bundle on top of the last coil rather than around it. This starts the side of the basket. Sew the coils together as usual.
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Step 9
Continue coiling and sewing the bundles until the basket is about 3 inches tall. Then sew the edges together tightly.









