Chicken Weaving - not with real chickens!
My crafty friend, Lorie, and I like to go and have a bash at new crafts now and again and this time Lorie found a willow weaving course so we could weave our own chicken. Well why wouldn't you? The course was run at Farnham Maltings by Judith Needham, who teaches basket making and willow weaving in Surrey and Hampshire. She was a very knowledgeable and encouraging teacher with a structured but relaxed teaching style. Most of the time she just left us to get on with it, which both Lorie and I appreciated. Judith had models on display for inspiration; pecking chickens and a cockerel. You could also choose a design or other animal if chickens weren't your bag. We chose cockerels! After a brief explanation on the types on willow we could use, we were presented with our metal hoops (to become chicken legs later) and a big wooden block to support our creation. We started off by making a rugby ball type shape as the building block for the bod...