For Michele

by Brigitte

May 15, 2016

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Category:Fabulous Forty Series

Tagsbrown • chevron • medium basket • orange • pink

Locations VisitedCockle Bay Lagoon • Hellfire Bluff • Kangaroo Island • Mt Bowes • Tasmania east coast

The second basket in my “Fab-40” series for friends who reached that milestone in the same year that I did. This one is for my very dear friend, Michèle, in Cape Town. We met on our first day of boarding school and have been best buddies ever since. So, belated Happy Birthday, Michèle!

Basket Evolution

colours selected 6 April 2013 at Mt Bowes in Tasmania’s south-west;
started 9 April at Hellfire Bluff on the east coast of Tasmania;
completed 23 September 2013 on Kangaroo Island.

Passport Stamps

In the course of its construction, this basket has been to:

Mt Bowes, South West National Park, Tasmania
Hellfire Bluff, east coast of Tasmania
Whalers Lookout and Cockle Bay Lagoon, east coast of Tasmania
Lemont, southern midlands of Tasmania
Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island
The Kona, Creek Bay Farm on the Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island
Cape St Albans, Kangaroo Island
American River, Kangaroo Island
Pelican Lagoon, Kangaroo Island

Biography

Coils of white, orange, brown and pink telephone wire on a lichen-covered rock at Hellfire Bluff in Tasmania. — Lots of beautiful lichens to be seen at Hellfire Bluff, Tasmania. 9 Apr 2013.

Wire coils ready for weaving, piled on a rock, with the view from the slopes of Mt Bowes, Tasmania, in the background. — A much-needed rest after bush-bashing to Mt Bowes in Tasmania’s South-West. 6 Apr 2013.

Wire coils (white, orange, pink, brown) for Michele's Fab 40 Basket, taken on a lichen-covered rock at Mt Bowes in Tasmania. — The final selection of colours. 6 Apr 2013 at Mt Bowes, Tasmania.

Telephone wire basket in progress, on the sea-sprayed rocks looking out to Hellfire Bluff, Tasmania. — Underway at last! Looking across to Hellfire Bluff. 23 Apr 2013.

Telephone-wire basket on a fence post, with Cockle Bay Lagoon and Maria Island in the background. — Looking across to Maria Island on Tasmania’s east coast. 4 August 2013.

Telephone wire basket on a lichen-covered rock at Whalers Lookout, with a view of Maria Island in the distance. — Whalers Lookout, on Tasmania’s east coast, with Maria Island in the distance. 4 August 2013.

Telephone-wire basket, with chevron pattern, on the pebble beach at Cockle Bay Lagoon. Maria Island is in the background. — A tranquil afternoon at Cockle Bay Lagoon after descending Whalers Lookout. 4 August 2014.

Wire basket in progress on the pebble beach at Cockle Bay Lagoon, with rainbows over Maria Island in the background. — At Cockle Bay Lagoon with rainbows over Maria Island. 4 August 2013.

A chevron-patterned telephone wire basket on a stump of wood, with a view of Maria Island in the distance and a rainbow overhead. — Weaving under rainbows and looking out to Maria Island. 4 August 2013.

Pink, brown, orange and white telephone wire basket in progress, on a lichen-covered rock at Whalers Lookout, Tasmania. — There’s a rock under all those lichens! At Whalers Lookout. 4 August 2013.

Chevron-patterned wire basket on lichen and moss covered rocks alongside a creek at Lemont, Tasmania. — On a friend’s farm in the midlands of Tasmania. 17 August 2013.

Telephone wire basket on mossy rocks alongside a creek at Lemont, Tasmania. — Mossy rocks (with patches of lichen!). 17 August 2013.

Chevron-patterned wire basket on weathered rocks at Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island. — One of my favourite spots in the world. Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island. 13 Sept 2013.

Brightly coloured telephone-wire basket on glistening rocks at Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island — Wish I could bring this rock home. Antechamber Bay, KI. 13 Sept 2013.

Close-up of a chevron-patterned telephone-wire basket nestled on the glistening rocks at Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island. — I love the colours against this background. 13 Sept 2013.

Pink, orange, brown and white wire basket in progress on a grey rock covered in bright orange-yellow lichen. — The rocks at Antechamber Bay are covered in beautiful Xanthoria (a lichen genus). 17 Sept 2013.

Close-up of weaving the base of a telephone wire basket. Sitting on rocks covered in chrome yellow lichen at Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island. — Nearly finished! Antechamber Bay. 17 Sept 2013.

Wire basket in progress on the stunningly weathered rocks at Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island. Intense blue sea and Cape Jervis in the background. — Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island. Looking across to Cape Jervis. The sea really is that blue! 13 Sept 2013.

Fab-40 basket nestled in the rocks at Cape St Albans, Kangaroo Island, with the moon rising in the clear blue afternoon sky. — Moon rising in the clear blue afternoon sky as My Beloved fishes for our dinner at Cape St Albans, Kangaroo Island. 15 Sept 2013.

Fab-40 wire basket, with white, orange, brown and pink wires in a zig-zag pattern, on the rocky beach at American River on Kangaroo Island. — A beautiful day doing the Old Cannery Walk at American River on Kangaroo Island. 14 Sept 2013.

Telephone-wire basket resting on lichen-covered, limestone rocks on the hills above Pelican Lagoon, Kangaroo Island. — Closing in on the end! Strolling on the hills overlooking Pelican Lagoon, Kangaroo Island. 19 Sept 2013.

The finished chevron-patterned basket on a fence post, with sheep grazing in a grassy paddock with the sea in the background. — Freshly finished! Taken from the deck of our cottage on Kangaroo Island. A hasty snap in a very strong wind! 24 Sept 2013.

Close up of the chevron pattern of a telephone wire basket, with a paddock and azure sea in the background — I love how the colours have come together. Taken at The Kona, our “home away from home” accommodation on Kangaroo Island.

Close-up of the inside of my Fab-40 telephone wire basket. The chevron pattern changes into a triangular spiral at the base. — I love the way the central spiral turned out! 24 Sept 2013.

Finished chevron-patterned telephone-wire basket on lichen-covered coastal rocks at Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island. — On the rocks at Penneshaw on the morning of our departure from Kangaroo Island. 1 Oct 2013.

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