Ghost net bowls

I’m working on a personal project, A Year of Plastic. My goal is to pick up 5 pieces of plastic a day for a year, so far I’m to almost 4,000 pieces and it’s only been 53 days. My phone already auto-prompts me to write ‘pieces of plastic’ everytime I start a word with ‘p’!

One of the things I find most is ghost net, fishing rope and net that’s been abandoned, lost overboard, cut, I don’t know all of the ways it gets into the ocean, I just know it’s what I find most. And it is an enormous problem. So I pick it up. My pile got larger and larger. So I washed it, and started weaving bowls with it. I love them. I love the colours. I love their messy little ends. I love it when they don’t have messy ends. So I keep making them.

I have requests to teach two classes, we’re sorting out the details, but if you want, give me a shout, and I’ll add you to my list of interested attendees.

When my daughter and I were in Norway last summer we were exploring this tiny fishing village on an island off the coast by Alesund, and I fell in love with all of the textures in these enormous piles of rope. Such pretty colours!!! Wish I could go back, and sit and weave there for a while!!!!