Market Basket with Swing Handle and Yesterday's Class

This basket is really quite large. The weavers are 1/2" flat reed. It is my own design created around a swing handle. The side embellishment is a swag I found at Hobby Lobby. I must confess with this basket...I found a cheep stain. It sounded liquidy (is that a word?) in the can. Oh such a mistake. It ended up creating a very sticky basket. As always, when will I listen to my own words to stick with Minwax stain in the yellow can. (I'm not knocking the stains specifically created for baskets or the natural homemade stains. Minwax is just convenient for me to purchase and easy to work with.)

One more tip. If you are designing a basket around a swing handle, it really looks nice if you plan for the basket to go up as close to the hinge on the handle as possible without affecting the swing of it.

Here are some pictures taken from my class yesterday.  There ended up being seven sweet ladies who came to class.  Three of them had just finished their baskets and I wanted to get a photo before they left.  I thought we all had a nice time and everyone's basket turned out wonderful.  It was a fun afternoon.
The bottom photo shows a big poster that the library had made advertising the class.  I got two of the posters when I left.  How cool is that?!
Have a blessed Sunday and Happy Weaving,
Nancy