Wicker Easter basket of old newspapers and magazines: step master class

You will need:

• scissors;

• waste paper.

1. Cut the paper into equal strips. It is desirable that the chosen material was identical in structure to: glazed and ordinary sheets have different thickness, so the cart will look something irregular and formless.

Easter basket of newspaper tubes / open sources

2. Then wrap a thin stick, twisting each strip into a tube. Then remove the stick. Likewise wrap all stripes.

By the way:

To make a small basket, will need 50 of these tubes.

3. Take eight tubes of equal length and place them cross 4 vertical and 4 horizontal.

Easter basket of newspaper tubes / open sources

4. Then take the still pipe and one end of criss cross until yet not meet its second end. Then attach the short end of the second tube (by inserting one into the other). Now the circle braid basket with two straws.

Easter basket of newspaper tubes / open sources

5. After that, by attaching the same way the tube, braid alternately, one tube from the bottom, the other - from the top.

Easter basket of newspaper tubes / open sources

This will be the bottom of the basket.

Easter basket of newspaper tubes / open sources

6. When you consider that the size of the bottom of the right, bend tube up and then braid the basket to the desired height.

7. When you want to finish weaving the Easter baskets, begin to bend the tubes, which are arranged vertically (on them rests the whole structure), in the direction of the outer wall of the basket. At the same bend, not all in a row, and every two and the rest is braided in the same way as it did before. Then bend the tubes through one. And so on, until they run out.

Easter basket of newspaper tubes / open sources

The ends of the tubes that stick out of the baskets, carefully cut with scissors.

Easter basket of newspaper tubes / open sources

Easter basket ready!

Easter basket of newspaper tubes / open sources

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