For Jane

by Brigitte

May 7, 2016

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Category:Fabulous Forty Series

Tagsblue • chevron • green • medium basket

Locations VisitedBruny Island • Cathedral Rock • Icehouse Track • Kangaroo Island • Mt Field West • Mt Rufus • Rocky Tom • Wyld's Craig

Continuing the chevron theme of the Fab 40 series, this basket is for another very special friend, Jane. We met in our first year of boarding school and she’s been one of my dearest friends ever since. Wishing you a (very belated) 40th birthday, Jane!

Basket Evolution

Started Billy Goat Falls, Kangaroo Island, 20 September 2013.
Completed at home in Hobart, 13 March 2014.

Passport Stamps

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

All over Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Rocky Tom, in the Meehan Ranges near Hobart, Tasmania.
Cathedral Rock, Tasmania.
The Gingerbread Hut, Mt Rufus, at the southern end of the Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania.
Bruny Island, Tasmania.
The Icehouse Track and Smith’s Monument on Mount Wellington in Hobart, Tasmania.
Wyld’s Craig, a mountain in Tasmania’s South-West.
Mt Field West in the Mt Field National Park, Tasmania.

Biography

Coils of telephone wire in white, blue, black, light metallic green and dark metallic green, on a bench at Billy Goat Falls, Kangaroo Island. — Colours selected! Billy Goat Falls, Kangaroo Island. 20 September 2013.

Coils of telephone wire on a narrow bench, with Billy Goat Falls in the background. — Blending into the bush. Billy Goat Falls, Kangaroo Island. 20 September 2013.

Wire basket on the hilltops looking down to Stokes Bay beach, Kangaroo Island. — Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island. 29 September 2013.

Wire basket on rocks on the grassy hill above Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island, with a kangaroo in the background. — A kangaroo on Kangaroo Island! Stokes Bay. 29 September 2013.

The basket in its very early stages on granite rocks at Windmill Bay, with the Cape Willoughby lighthouse in the background. — At Windmill Bay, Cape Willoughby, on Kangaroo Island. 24 September 2013.

Telephone wire basket in progress, on the rocky shores of North West Bay River, near Cathedral Rock, Tasmania. — North West Bay River, coming down from the top of Cathedral Rock. 1 December 2013.

Telephone-wire basket in its early stage, on rocks covered in rusty-orange lichen near Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island. — On Caloplaca (lichen) covered rocks near Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island.

Telephone wire basket in progress, placed on lichen-covered rocks in the Meehan Ranges, Tasmania. — On the way to Rocky Tom. Meehan Ranges, Tasmania. 13 October 2013.

Wire basket in progress, on top of Cathedral Rock, with the Huon Valley and Adamson's Peak in the distance. — Cathedral Rock, looking across the Huon Valley, Southern Tasmania. 1 December 2013.

Wire basket in progress, in snow and pandani on the slopes of Mt Rufus in the Cradle Mountain - Lake St Claire National Park, Tasmania. — The snowy slopes of Mt Rufus, Cradle Mountain – Lake St Claire National Park. 19 October 2013.

Telephone wire basket in progress, with a view of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park in the distance. — Lunchtime. Looking out from the Gingerbread Hut. Mt Rufus, Tasmania. 19 October 2013.

Telephone wire basket in its early stages, nestled between two pandani bushes in the snow, near Mt Rufus, Tasmania. — Pandani in the snow. Mt Rufus, Tasmania. 19 October 2013.

Telephone wire basket at the Gingerbread ski hut on the slopes of Mt Rufus in the Cradle Mountain - Lake St Claire National Park, Tasmania. — The Gingerbread Hut, Mt Rufus, Tasmania. 19 October 2013.

Telephone wire basket in its early stages, in buttongrass, with the King William Ranges in the distance. — Walking back from the Gingerbread Hut, Mt Rufus, with the King William Range in the distance. 19 October 2013.

Telephone wire basket on the rocky beach at Lunnawunna, Bruny Island, Tasmania, with the jetty in the background. — Afternoon tea at Lunawunna on Bruny Island, Tasmania. 22 January 2014.

Telephone wire basket in progress, resting on sandstone rocks at Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania. — Sandstone rocks at Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania. 22 January 2014.

Telephone wire basket in progress, on a dead log in the bush near Smiths Monument, on top of Mt Wellington, Tasmania. — Smiths Monument. Mt Wellington, Tasmania. 24 January 2014.

Blue, black, green and white telephone-wire basket in its mould. On rocks on Mt Wellington, with Hobart and the Derwent Estuary in the distance. — Looking down to our house in Strickland Avenue! Zig-zag Track. Mt Wellington. 24 January 2014.

Telephone-wire basket on lichen-covered rocks on Mt Wellington, Tasmania, with the Derwent Estuary in the background. — About to descend the Zig-Zag Track on Mt Wellington, looking out to the Derwent Estuary. 24 January 2014.

Telephone-wire basket in its mould, on rocks on Mt Wellinton, overlooking South Arm and the Derwent Estuary. — Overlooking South Arm and the Derwent Estuary. Mt Wellington, Tasmania. 24 January 2014.

Telephone-wire basket sitting on top of a cairn in front of Rocking Stone on Mt Wellington, Hobart, Tasmania. — On a cairn in front of Rocking Stone, Mt Wellington. 24 January 2014.

Telephone-wire basket on lichen-covered rocks with the top of Mt Wellington, from the South, in the background. — Wellington Ranges from the South. 24 January 2014.

Telephone wire basket on a signpost pointing to Naturaliste Peak, Mt Field West and Lake Dobson, with Naturaliste Peak and Mt Field West in the background. — On the way to Mt Field West. A long, long way! Naturaliste Peak and Mt Field West in the background. Mt Field National Park, Tasmania. 9 March 2014.

Wire basket on lichen covered rocks, looking out to Lake Daphne from the foot of Wyld's Craig in Tasmania's South-West. — Looking out to Lake Daphne from the foot of Wyld’s Craig in Tasmania’s South-West. 16 Feb 2014.

Telephone-wire basket in progress, on the dolerite rocks of the peak of Mt Field West, Tasmania. — The precipitous western face of Mt Field West. 9 March 2014.

Wire basket in progress placed on lichen covered rocks with the mountains of Tasmania's south-west in the background. — The stunning view from the top of Mt Field West. 9 March 2014.

The early stages of a telephone-wire basket in progress, in front of a Snowgum and surrounded by snow and pineapple grass, on the slopes of Mt Rufus, Tasmania. — Snowgum and pineapple grass. Mt Rufus. Tasmania. 19 October 2013.

My beautiful white-chested tortoiseshell pusscat, sitting regally on a wall in our garden with Jane's Fab 40 green, black and white telephone-wire basket. — A reluctant model!

Telephone wire basket in a chevron pattern using bright blue, black, white, light green and dark green wires. — Ta da! Jane’s Fab 40 basket.

The inside of a Jane's telephone-wire basket photographed from above, showing the chevron pattern for the sides blending into a spiral colours at the base.

Close-up of the underside of a completed telephone-wire basket, in a spiralling pattern of white, blue, black and green wires. — The underside of the finished basket! 16 March 2014.

Close-up of the inside of a telephone wire basket, in a spiralling, chevron pattern of white, blue, black and metallic green wires. — The inside base of the basket. 16 March 2014.

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