Making Coil Pots and Baskets with Helen Deighan
Home Decor (Textile Art) • Educational, G, 11-Jun-2021
Recycling old fabric
Helen shares her passion for making coil pots, which is a genuinely great way to recycle fabrics – we all have materials where we love the color but wonder why we ever bought them!!
Watch what else Helen makes when watching the Fashion Sans Frontiers film and Behind the Scenes at Fashion Sans Frontiers.
Helen’s book Textile Coil Pots and Baskets is available in the Shop.
If you’d like to make your pots, we also have cording available click to choose rigid or soft:
Coil Pot Cording for Textile Pots- rigid
Coil Pot Cording for Baskets – soft
More about Helen Deighan:
As a professional textile artist, Helen has been making quilts since 1984.
Initially working from existing patterns, she soon started developing her designs. And, when she couldn’t find the right color shade to fit, she dyed her own. She has created many exciting dyeing effects using everyday household objects – from cat litter trays and drains pipes to her now-famous plastic freezer bags!
She has a great passion for designing and making textile coil pots.
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