WEAVING THE SEASON - WINTER - A basket weaving journey in slow craft and nature connection

WEAVING THE SEASON is a soulful basket weaving series of monthly gatherings across the winter months exploring slow craft, natural fibres, earth connection and nourishing community.

About this Workshop
Winter invites us inward.

Toward slower rhythms.

Toward the work of our hands.

Toward warmth, reflection, and meaningful making.

Weaving the Season is a soulful winter basketry immersion - a series of monthly gatherings held across the colder months, where we come together to create with natural fibres, deepen our connection with the earth, and experience the nourishing rhythms of weaving by hand.

Across the season we will explore two basket making processes, working with both coil and melon basket forms. Through these practices we will engage with a diversity of natural materials while deepening our relationships with the work of our hands, the meditative rhythm of weaving, and the many plant beings that support and accompany our making.

As we gather and create together, we will also explore respectful fibre harvesting and preparation, developing a more intimate relationship with the materials we work with and the living landscapes from which they come.

More than a workshop series, this is a container for creativity, presence, nourishment, and connection - a space to slow down, create in community, and be gently supported by the rhythms of season and handwork.

Through weaving practices, seasonal inspiration, and meditative making, you will be guided into slower, grounded ways of creating that honour process, softness, and the beauty of the handmade.

Whether you are completely new to basket weaving, a seasoned maker, or returning to the craft after many years, you are warmly welcome.


Event details
Private Warrandyte location, Wurundjeri Country, given upon booking

This workshop includes three in person sessions held on the following dates:

Sundays: June 28th, July 26th and August 23rd 2026

11am - 4pm

Early bird till June 8th: $425

Standard: $495

Concession/bring a friend: $475

Supported/community places: 2 spots at $395
(Additional community places open up when a Pay-it-forward ticket is purchased)

Pay-it-forward: $595

These are the pilot program ticket prices for this journey.

What’s Included
• Three monthly in-person weaving gatherings across winter

• A WhatsApp group to share your progress across the months

• Two guided basketry projects

• Natural fibres and weaving materials

• Teas and light refreshments

• Demonstrations and gentle guidance

• Opportunities for seasonal reflection and nourishment

• A welcoming and supportive creative circle

About the Gatherings
These gatherings are intentionally intimate, allowing space for connection, guidance, and restful creative processes. Expect warm lighting, natural textures, cups of tea, gentle conversation, and moments of stillness woven throughout our time together.

Alongside the weaving itself, a gentle sense of community will be woven through the season. There will be space to ask questions, exchange ideas, share discoveries and learn from one another’s experiences. Often in creative spaces, we are nourished not only by the making itself, but by witnessing the ways others see, gather, create, and relate to the world around them. Over time, the group becomes part of the process; a place of inspiration, and shared learning.

Across the season we will explore two weaving processes. We will begin with a coil basket, which will become our anchoring practice throughout the gatherings, a slower, unfolding piece that evolves over time and allows space to deepen into rhythm, technique, and relationship with the materials. Guidance and support will be offered throughout, including around shaping and the addition of a handle should you wish to incorporate one.

During the final two sessions we will move into creating a melon basket, incorporating a variety of plant fibres and opening a wider exploration of the many plants that grow around us. Through this process we will deepen our relationships with the living materials we weave with, becoming more familiar with their unique qualities, textures, and stories.

Respectful fibre harvesting and preparation will be explored throughout the season, inviting a deeper understanding of where our materials come from and encouraging a more reciprocal relationship with the land. As we gather, weave, and learn together, the process becomes more than simply making baskets - it becomes a practice of attention, connection, and being nourished in community.

Who this workshop is suitable for

You don’t need any experience in weaving or any particular creative process to attend this workshop, just a curiosity and a feeling that this practice speaks to you. On the other hand, I anticipate that creators, makers, artists and weavers will find that this journey offers nourishment; be it the techniques, harvesting and preparation processes or the simple act of creating and connecting within the circle. Feel free to reach out if you would like to discuss if this workshop is suitable for you.

Photography

Photographs may be taken during this workshop. By attending, you provide consent to be photographed and to having these photographs used for promotional purposes only. Please notify me if you wish to be excluded.

Cultural sensitivity

We must acknowledge that there is complexity in working with weaving on stolen land; a practice that is so culturally rich and intertwined with the sacred. I acknowledge the traditional practices of Indigenous weavers who have woven these lands since time immemorial and have developed and refined basket weaving practices over this time. I am not an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person and Indigenous weaving, stories and lore is not the content of this workshop. I stand as an ally to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, striving to avoid cultural appropriation in my offerings as a workshop facilitator and in my life more broadly. I am happy to refer you to Indigenous weavers who you can learn from and remunerate fairly for their work if this is what you seek.

Facilitator bio

Shelley Krycer is a visual artist based on Wurundjeri country who came to basket weaving over 15 years ago. When she did, Shelley found that her hands had a sense of ‘returning’ to something that they had long known. They wove and wove, and continue to weave, with a sense of remembering and learning with each stitch. Working as she does primarily with foraged and home grown plant materials has brought an additional layer to her practice; an ongoing, living relationship with the natural world. Through her weaving practice Shelley finds that she is able to listen to, observe, participate and deepen her sensitivity to the eco-systems around her, working cyclically across the seasons. Shelley’s process-based art making practice which includes basket weaving alongside painting and other nature based art processes is informed by trainings within a Fine Arts (Honours) degree she completed in 2004 (Monash University) as well as studies in Art Education (Grad Dip Ed. Melbourne University), Permaculture (Advanced PDC with Peter Allen) and Steiner Education (Advanced Diploma, Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar). Shelley has been teaching art and facilitating workshops since 2004 and sharing basket weaving workshops since 2014. She has been invited to bring this work to festivals such as Seven Sisters and The Village Continuum, as part of programs hosted by Nature’s Apprentice as well as facilitating weaving circles for groups of people at significant moments and transitions. Shelley is continuously moved by the depth of presence, nourishment, connection and joy that sharing these processes and practices in circles brings.

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I respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, who are the Traditional Owners of the land on which this workshop will be run, pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.