For Sally

by Brigitte

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Category:Fabulous Forty Series

Tagschevron • medium basket • purple

Locations VisitedCockle Bay Lagoon • Hartz Peak • Hellfire Bluff • Kangaroo Island • Mt Direction • Mt Field West • Mt Styx

The first in the Fabulous Forty series. This basket was for Sally, one of my oldest and dearest friends whom I’ve known since early primary school.

Basket Evolution

colours selected 18 September 2012 on Kangaroo Island;
started 19 September 2012;
completed 30 March 2013.

Passport Stamps

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

Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island
The Kona, Creek Bay Farm on the Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island
Cape St Albans, Kangaroo Island
Mt Direction, east of Hobart
Cockle Bay Lagoon, east coast of Tasmania
Hellfire Bluff
Mt Field East
Mt Styx
Hartz Peak, south west Tasmania

Biography

Coils of white and purple telephone wire arranged in a row of alternating bands on a wooden table. — Started on the deck of The Kona, our home-away-from-home on Kangaroo Island.

A row of telephone wire coils on a wooden deck table, with a lush green paddock and Antechamber Bay in the background. — Admiring the lush paddocks of early Spring from the deck of The Kona at Antechamber Bay Retreats, Kangaroo Island.

Coils of purple and white telephone wire on a lichen-covered rock. — Hmmm, I wonder when I decided to add in the black wires?

Looking east from the ridges above Stokes Bay on Kangaroo Island.

Telephone wire basket in progress on coastal rocks covered in orange lichen, with a deep blue sky and an afternoon moon overhead. — Spring moon at Cape St Albans, Kangaroo Island.

Wire basket in progress on a tupperware mould, on lichen-covered rocks on Kangaroo Island, with the sea and the Australian mainland in the background. — On Caloplaca (a lichen) covered rocks at Cape St Albans, Kangaroo Island, with mainland Australia in the background.

Wire basket in progress, on the pebbly beach at Cockle Bay Lagoon, east coast Tasmania — At Cockle Bay Lagoon, on Tasmania’s east coast, with Maria Island in the distance.

Sally's basket on coastal rocks covered in bright orange lichen, with the ocean and coastline in the background. — At Blowhole Point on Tasmania’s East Coast.

Telephone wire basket in progress, nestled amongst Pandani plants with a small tarn (aka a lake) in the background. — At Emily Tarn in the Hartz Mountains National Park.

Sally's basket in progress, placed on top of a vertical boulder on Mt Styx, with the mountain ranges of South West Tasmania in the background. — On top of Mt Styx, on the edge of Tasmania’s South West wilderness.

Sally's basket on a lichen-covered boulder amidst alpine scrub near Mt Field East, with a small tarn in the background. — A drizzly day on the plateau near Mt Field East, Tasmania.

Wire basket in progress, poised on a bushwalking track sign that reads Seagers Lookout 1hr, Mt Field East 2 hrs — At Lake Fenton in the Mt Field National Park.

Purple, black and white telephone wire basket being woven in a chevron pattern, placed on a rock covered in a lemony lichen, Cameronia pertusarioudes. — The beautiful yellow lichen is Cameronia pertusarioides.

Looking down to Lake Fenton on the Mt Field East track.

Wire basket in progress on a walking track near Lake Fenton, with Pandani and Eucalyptus forest in the background. — On the track back from Mt Field East, approaching Lake Fenton.

Pandanis on the Mt Field East track.

Purple and white chevron patterned wire basket in progress, on a small boulder with a Pandanus plant behind it. — Pandanis on the Mt Field East track.

The base of a telephone wire basket in progress. Nearing completion with just a few strands left. — Nearly done!

A close-up of the finished chevron-patterned basket placed on top of a concrete pylon on Mt Direction, near Hobart. — Still on Mt Direction

Purple, white and black wire basket resting on a concrete pylon on Mt direction, with the River Derwent, Hobart northern suburbs and the Mt Wellington range in the background. — Mt Direction east of Hobart, looking toward Mt Wellington.

On Mt Direction, east of Hobart.

Sally's completed chevron-patterned basket on Mt Direction, with the Mt Wellington range and the northern suburbs of Hobart in the background. — On Mt Direction, east of Hobart

My beautiful tortoiseshell cat sitting daintily behind a purple, black and white wire basket. — Getting the Royal Seal of Approval (because Sally is a fellow cat lover!)

My handsome tortoishell and white cat, sitting on a wall in sphinx pose, with Sally's completed basket behind him. — The Sphinx and the Basket.

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