Melinda West | West Gardens Basketry

Growing, gathering, and weaving with plant fibers from the Pacific Northwest

Hello Again…Where Has All the Blogging Time Gone?

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Happy Spring Greetings to you. Wherever you live, I hope by now you are seeing some signs of spring to encourage you onward. I lost my mom, Charlene Haug, to cancer forty years ago. During her 10 months of illness, finding a way to negotiate the peaks and valleys of that experience and loss with our brand new baby and a three year old seemed to … [Read more...]

About Melinda

Forty years ago, while sitting on the beach playing with my young children, I made my first basket out of a pile of willow trimmings someone had tossed there. It looked wildly made like a crazy bird’s nest. While being together with my two sons on a beautiful Pacific Northwest shoreline, this simple experience of crafting with the natural materials at hand kindled a passion for creating forms using plant fibers. I thank my family, my community, and all my teachers for cultivating this gift in me.
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Melinda West and basket, Indianola WA