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Oh man I learned a lot by doing this. For starters, I had no sense of what size branches to grab. I also realized that a small pair of trimmers would have been better than the hedge clippers I was using. I figured out that I did the turn up to the sides wrong and I think it would have been useful to use thinner branches for the bottom, thicker branches to help hold it together as I tried to get the sides to go up, and then medium sized branches for the rest of it. I had trouble keeping the branches down, especially where I had multiple sized of branches. I also kept having breakages, although that didn't happen as much as I thought it would. I also finally figured out the right size of branch and which tree was the best one to harvest from.
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Twisted the branches into circles in a bucket and filling with water. Later I realized that I could just grab fresh branches and just bend them around my knee.
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I used green willow branches from a giant willow along a canal just a couple miles from my house. After multiple failed attempts, I finally got a roundish shape and slowly fell into a rhythm of weaving. The tools I used was a pocket knife, pruning scissors, and a flathead screwdriver.


