FLOWER POT

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Many housewives often encounter a situation where they manage to get the sprout of a new flower, and there is nothing to plant it on. The lack of a beautiful flower pot is not a reason to pickle a flower in a container of water. It’s possible to make a beautiful and original place for your green favorite without money expenses. An ideal solution to this problem is a paper basket. For its manufacture I needed: paper glue, scissors, a rolling pin and old magazines.

First of all, we cut the page in half.

The most suitable sizes for the future tube will be 27/10 centimeters. According to these parameters, the tube will turn out not too rigid, but strong enough for the product. In order to twist it, you need to put a knitting needle or paste from the handle onto one of the corners of the sheet and wind the entire half of the page onto it.

On the remaining small corner, apply a drop of glue and press well with your fingers.

Thus, you need to make a lot of tubes. I needed 60 pieces for a product 11 centimeters high.

Before you start weaving, you should build 10 tubes. To do this, drop a drop of glue into its wide end and insert another tube into it this way.

For the base, you need 10 triple tubes.

The next step is to roll out the long tubes with a rolling pin.

So it will be much more convenient to work with them.

So weave. First you need to weave the bottom. To do this, we intertwine the tubes together in this way.

Add all the cooked long tubes.

Now, the extreme tube needs to be turned in the other direction and weave.

Then, we braid with it all the remaining ends in a circle.

As braiding, it will be necessary to increase the lead tube. You need to do the same way as at the beginning.

Gradually, braiding the sticking out rods, they need to be moved apart, giving the structure the shape of the sun.

The bottom must be woven flat, until it is enough for the shape.

As a prototype for the pot, I took a regular mayonnaise concrete.

As soon as the dimensions of the woven bottom are equal to the bottom of the concrete, we begin to make a rounding. This can be achieved by tightening the beams with a lead tube.

The main mistake is the large gaps between the horizontal fibers.

They need to be eliminated during the weaving process, since at the end of the work it will be more difficult to do.

To do this, after passing a couple of rows, pull the stage to the bottom with your hands, only carefully - it's still paper.

When you understand that the required height has already been reached, you can take out the form.

Now you need to hide all the remaining tails inside, stretching them under several layers.

This is what a half-finished masterpiece looks like.

Now you need to paint it with something, or just varnish it in several layers. I decided not to bother for a long time and painted my basket with regular nail polish.