I have a small demo basket I made to go a bit more in-depth about how I make the dandelion stem baskets! It's a bit less of a fine weave since it's made to show the basic technique, but it still looks lovely imo.
^ I start out with a cross of four spokes, two large stems (or other spoke material) per starting branch. I then add a starting stem by wrapping it around one of the spokes as shown.
^ this picture skips ahead a bit but shows the basic twist you do with the two ends of the stem. As you can see by the two different colored stems, the one facing you alternates. Keep care to make it twist the same way through the whole basket (unless you *want* to break up the flow to add a pattern)
You can also see that the doubled-up spokes can be split to increase the base of the basket without the stitches getting too big
^ In addition to adding spokes by folding a stem in half, you can also add them by weaving in two stems at a time like above.
There will end up being loose ends either way, I recommend banding them up against the spokes and adding a couple stitches over them before you snip them off.
If you need to add spokes, whether that be because you accidentally snipped off a spoke or want to make the basket wider, you have a couple options. One, if you have a big spoke, you can split that in half. Two, you can add a new stem and just weave it in where it needs to be.
As you can see, that adds two spokes to the basket. You can just increase it by one by holding one of the edges against an established spoke and treating them as the same one, and then snipping it after a few stitches
^a gif of the twining technique
^ And of course, a final video detailing how I end off the top, because it's easier shown than told!
Anyways, this is the final basket! A bit chunkier than the others ive made, but should still show how I made it pretty well. Feel free to ask questions :D
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