Festive Basket of Balls

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Earlier today I posted a basket woven from map-printed wrapping paper. I was inspired to make a festive version from holiday paper.

The basket is made from (terrible) gift wrap. Ugh, so flimsy and hard to work with! But I persisted.

The woven balls are made from cut- up gift bags.

First the basket.

Cutting the strips.

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Weaving the bottom of the basket.

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Establishing the corners.

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Done!

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Then the balls.

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Very pretty and festive! Maybe I’ll try this. I have some old foil wrapping paper that is a bit more substantial than most modern ones.

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I’m impressed you wrangled that gift wrap. It came out fabulous!

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Pretty!

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Fun and.festive, the silver and blue really pop. And kudos to you for persiting with the flimsy wrappi g paper…it gets thinner every year.