Love Your Eyes

This is one of those dreams that needed to be made but I had no idea if it would actually go together.  When weaving something with no directions and only a vision there is always the chance insurmountable problems might arise.  Luckily I didn't run out of beads!  There are 3 different size Feldspar beads in this basket which really accented this "eye" agate.  Eye agates have distinctive round formations and there are plenty of those.  The Long Leaf pine needles form a basket inside and the Muhly Grass that I grow and use form a basket on the outside.  The netting areas, called faggoting, are a lace making technique often used in early pine needle baskets.   This basket can be seen at Von Liebig Art Center in Naples from April 10-29, 2019.
Update: Second place winner in Water Water Everywhere (158 entries) at the Visual Ats Center in Punta Gorda in June 2019.

Approximate Size:  12 X 10 X 4 inches

Lost Sails

 I was working on this particular piece while I was demonstrating at the wild Child Gallery in Matlacha, Fl and received several remarks on the basket.  It is an unusual agate in the base for it has four different sedimentations. It has two cone shapes in the lower area that look like boats floating on a layered sea.  The upper half is the usual druzy area but also has an eye formation in the right corner.  The Muhly grass that I grow and use for my artwork is accented with Silver Hair agate beads.  I wove an area on the top edge that is reminiscent of a sail with a palm inflorescence boat. This area gives the piece lots of texture. This basket can be seen at Von Liebig Art Center in Naples, FL from April 10-29, 2019.

Appromiate Size:  11 X 11 X 4.5 inches