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by Marsha Leavitt
Greenfield, Mass Email: marsha3072 at gmail.com * Unique baskets and art from paper, pine needles, reed and other natural materials
* Basket weaving classes Sign up for a class I have been teaching basket weaving for many years with infinite patience and guaranteed results. Check out examples of baskets students have made - click on the More option (top right) and select Student Baskets page. Classes for 2026 > March 14 10:00 to 2:00 Learn the Ancient Art of Pine Needle Basketry: Make a pine needle wall hanging at Fiddleheads Art Gallery in Northfield, MA > March 20 10:00 to 12:00 Making Paper Stars at the Greenfield Senior Center in Greenfield, MA > March 27 10:00 to 12:00 Making Paper Boxes at the Greenfield Public Library in Greenfield, MA > April 10 10:00 to 12:00 Making Paper Stars at Fiddleheads Art Gallery in Northfield, MA > April 17 10:00 to 12:00 Making Paper Boxes at Greenfield Senior Center in Greenfield, MA > May 3 10:00 to 12:00 Making Paper Boxes at Fiddleheads Art Gallery in Northfield, MA > May 8 10:00 to 12:00 Making Paper Boxes at Greenfield Public Library in Greenfield MA Check out the hosts websites to see the details or email me. Email to get on my email list of "basketcases" and I will email you when I am scheduling classes. marsha3072 at gmail.com 
This lovely basket is another example of a basket on a wooden base. This was made by (a different) Marsha
A new adventure is making glass beads. I've taken two classes in flameworking at Snow Farm. It was scary at first and is very intense. I'm not very good yet but you will be seeing my beads in my art.
This piece may be my new all time favorite. I used glass beads that I made in a workshop at Snow Farm. It is mounted on gray canvas.
Title: Circles of Connection: a lesson from Covid 
This is another basket with glass beads that I made. I also made the ceramic base.
In the art category Title: Opposites Attract 
In the Art category - North Meets South:
Northern ash, likens, and bracket fungus meets Southern palm, pine and philodendron And some more art sold
Just spent 3 days at the PA Gourd Festival. I made these 4 gourds. I carved, braided, couched, dyed, wove, coiled, wood burned, gold leaf, strung and sawed my way through 4 classes. What a blast!!! June 2019
These hangers are quite fun to make. I'm working on a dragon right now.
This 3 are from the Northeast Basketmakers Guild annual Gathering April 27 - 29 2018 With my travels in Feb and March 2018 I haven't been weaving very much lately. However this "Creature from the Deep" joined my pine needle (and gourd) creations this winter. 
I still love the reed baskets but don't do many of these anymore. 2024
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Several of my best baskets are now at the Old Deerfield Museum Gift Shop. Wahoo! ******** My latest distraction is making and teaching these paper orbs. They are quite impressive but easy to make. And now making and teaching paper stars and boxes too! Pieces from 2025. Just can't stop making them!!! Here are some of the final pieces of 2024 
    Another new one for 2024.
I made the ceramic base several years ago. 
Title: Happy Feet. This piece is coiled around three wine corks. It was a big challenge to put them together. 
Title is Ocean Dreaming. It has two of the beads I made at Snow Farm. It sold the first day at the Ashfield Craft and Farmers Market (2022). Some Covid stay-at-home creations. I am definitely keeping busy. Thank goodness I can go up to the studio. *Sadly had to give up the studio. My tiny house is now jammed with stuff. Hasn't stopped me from creating!! 2022 
These baskets are a collaboration of several people. They are made from pieces of cherry given to me by a friend, walnut slices cut by another friend, woodburned design and pine needles gathered by other friends and iris leaves from my garden. I love the community effort!
Coiling with pine needles and Siberian iris leaves.
Paper basket are colorful and quite strong. I use many in the studio and at home for holding all sorts of materials. I'm playing with paper again. 
This basket makes me think of a boat. 
This pine needle basket is titled Ocean. This basket won 3rd place in the professional division at the NBG Gathering 2018. Very proud!! 
Title: Catching Stars
Pine needle built on a ceramic base with waxed linen knot-less netting and bead "stars". This wall hanging is made from palm inflorescence. 
This basket is a collaboration with a ceramic artist whose studio is next to mine. He made the base and the top is pine needles with philodendron sheath "flowers". Titled: Emergence 
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