here are a few of my latest commissions.

Spend the day making a round willow basket, no experience needed and all materials provided. Course to be held at Cauldon Lowe Village Hall. More experienced makers can learn new ways of making bases and try out new weaves. £45.

Phone Rachel on 07779121031 to secure your place.

I am now working on baskets with partitions, lids and D- shapes such as bicycle baskets.

Have attended some great events this month, Art in the Park in Leek, the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Plant Sale at Meerbrook, the Wildlife and Countryside Fair at Stafford Castle.

Next weekend 28-29th May, I will be attending Kedlestone Hall Plant Fair where I’ll be selling baskets and plant supports and other willow items.

Come along and say hello.

Have been very busy from November onwards with projects and making.

I started a 6 week project working with a young girls project called Little Angels based in Hednesford. I taught the girls some willow skills over 4 evenings and the last 2 evening were spent on their own individual projects and a public exhibition. The girls were great fun and we were  really proud of all the effort they put in. The individual projects ranged from horses to baskets, to dolphins, reindeer heads and even a Take That logo!

I also made some willow pigs for a client from Suffolk, panicking slightly that they would not make it through the snow in time for Christmas. My daughter was quite fond of them and didn’t want to let them go.

Each pupil made a woven scale and some wove the tail, face, an eye and fins as well as a school of smaller fish to keep it comany.

There are also a prickle (not sure what the collective name for them is?) of hedgehogs been created in 3 schools in Staffordshire.