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This is the first basket I've made from English Ivy.  It turned out pretty well, but I found that ivy makes great weavers but are not the best staves.  I finished the rim just by stitching it with yucca fiber.  I like working with ivy, and certainly have a ton to use maybe the next one will be good enough to sell!

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Basket with apples made out of English Ivy
 
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Well done, it looks beautiful.
 
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Timothy Norton wrote:Well done, it looks beautiful.


Thanks!
 
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Well, I've been wanting to do some weaving, and the neighbor definitely has some English Ivy I could clean up. I feel a project coming on...
 
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Mathew Trotter wrote:Well, I've been wanting to do some weaving, and the neighbor definitely has some English Ivy I could clean up. I feel a project coming on...


I've got plenty of English Ivy too, if you want some of mine! (Please, help yourself. Take all of it.)
 
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Mathew Trotter wrote:Well, I've been wanting to do some weaving, and the neighbor definitely has some English Ivy I could clean up. I feel a project coming on...



I think it is easier to use fresh than boiling it and peeling the bark like someone said online.  Maybe that works if the ivy has dried first, but that isn't how you do honeysuckle so I boiled it fresh and it got really mushy.
 
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Jennifer Pearson wrote:

Mathew Trotter wrote:Well, I've been wanting to do some weaving, and the neighbor definitely has some English Ivy I could clean up. I feel a project coming on...


I've got plenty of English Ivy too, if you want some of mine! (Please, help yourself. Take all of it.)



That was my motivation... next, I tackle the wisteria!
 
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Judson Carroll wrote:That was my motivation... next, I tackle the wisteria!

Can't say I haven't considered it, but I do find the leaves really good for mulch as I can pull them off the stems into a bucket and know that my mulch doesn't have weed seeds in it like hay can have.
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