honeysuckle basket

I was looking at different stuff on this site, and the internet, and learned you can make baskets from honeysuckle vine.  I am so excited to try.  I have to wait until fall to harvest the vine, but I can't wait. Several years ago  my son brought home a wicker tv stand he found for free.  It was very cool and I would have loved to use it, except it was to big to get it into the house.  No one I knew wanted it, So I put it on the North side of the little Mother-in-law house behind our house.  I planted a jasmine on each end and a honeysuckle in the center.  I filled the different compartments with flowers, and it was beautiful.  After the first year the honeysuckle took over.  The jasmine is still there, but you have to look to find it.  I have pruned the honeysuckle several time, but even at this moment it climbs up an old TV cable to the top of the house.  Now I know this fall I will cut it way back and have a good material to make baskets  and wreath with.  I love the smell and so do the bee's , so I don't want to get rid of it, so this is the perfect solution.  
When we moved into this place there was this huge pot with a stand.  We were told it was used to boil pigs, but I just don't know about that.  I have always wanted to do something with it, but what?  I didn't want to plant stuff in it because I didn't want to ruin it be drilling a hope in the bottom.  I have always wondered if it might be worth something.  I know it is old, but I don't know how old.  any way it just sits in the yard. I took a picture, I knew it was to heavy to lift onto the stand, but it is to heavy for me to even turn over.  I turned it upside down so the rain water wouldn't encourage mosquitoes in the winter months.  I could use this to boil my vine.  It would be cool to say I used it at least once.  
Now I just have to watch lots of tutorials on basket making and wait for fall.  My family can stop complaining about the jasmine taking over, and with luck and practice I can make something cool and useful.  I call that a win.

now that is a great idea!! I (stupidly) planted a jasmine a few years ago and have spent lots of sweat trying to keep up with it and stop it from taking over my entire yard. I usually just send it through the chipper, but if I could make something from it, that is a definite plus.

(I also love the giant pot. I would love to live in an old place with treasures like that.)