What absolutely wonderful weather we're having! All springy and motivational! The basket above is a 'Just Really Useful' basket.
I managed to get out and finish my gate hurdle. I'm really pleased with it, but have reservations about the fact that the willow was a bit kinky as it was too dry to weave with. I might end up replacing loads of the weaving!
Tah dah!! Now I just have to fix the bottom of the hurdle to a length of wood and attach that to my gate. Voila, collie proof and a bit of privacy!
Willow dashed in and took the spoils!
I am not normally house proud, but I decided to display our objey in my living room cubby hole. Today I thought it looked quite nice. So here it is!
Have a wonderful weekend!!
hen
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Sorry to be redundant but I really do think it's all beautiful! That objey looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteHear hear...lovely
ReplyDeleteThere are promises of warmer weather for us as well, starting this weekend. I hope we can make such beautiful use of it as well.
ReplyDeleteI'd not come across the word 'objey' before, I like that! Yours is most interesting. I have enjoyed watching the development of your projects, and seeing Willow. My dogs have all had collie in them, usually combined with a little GSD mindfulness.
ReplyDeleteYou've got Stacey all excited to learn basketry. If you give lessons, she'll probably take a class with you one day. :)
ReplyDeleteAs Bernie said, you have me all inspired. Your work is so beautiful and creative, it makes me want to learn. I like everything in this post. Your hurdle turned out perfect, good job on making something functional look pretty too! And your objey is very nice also, I like the duck.
ReplyDeleteYour gate hurdle is great! A really organic design that looks so natural with the branches intertwined with the structure, excellent.
ReplyDeletecool! Thanks everybody I'm pleased you like all this stuff!
ReplyDeleteHello badger! :)
Hello hen! :)
ReplyDeleteJust wondering, how long did your hurdle take you to build and how weather proof is it? Could I put a couple in a garden and leave them out?
morning,
ReplyDeleteIt took me a few hours. But it was my first proper hurdle so I was working out how to do it. It should last about 4 yrs outside before it starts looking really shabby.
The bit you poke in the ground is what's going to probably go first though and I should think (depending on how thick your stakes are, what wood they are and how wet your soil is) that it will probably start to go between a year or three.
If you use chestnut stakes it'll last for years, if you use willow stakes it will last for a about two years, if you use thickish oak stakes it will be somewhere in between.
This hurdle isn't going in the ground I'm fixing it to a gate so I expect to get loads of use out of it.
Let me know when you're making one!! Take photies!
hen
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Morning,
ReplyDeleteThat's good to know they're pretty hardy, I can imagine using them in a garden design for screening. Living willow structures look nice but look as though they can grow quite large:
http://www.thewillowbank.com/portfolio/index.html
from the people at the Willowbank
http://www.thewillowbank.com/
Thanks for the info!