This hanging planter is made from morning glory vines. It hasn't shrunk yet, nor do I have any idea what it will look like after it dries out. The back yard yielded about 40 lbs of vine stems which we rolled up like a carpet and lifted out on a bedsheet. Before going to the trouble of cleaning and harvesting the stems I wanted to see if I could make a basket at all and if it would be an enjoyable activity. It was fun and presumably my next basket will be better.
So tomorrow I will start stripping the leaves off my big pile of stems and coiling them to dry for later use.
Here is what the bottom of the basket looked like at the beginning.
Here are the live vines taking over my yard before we pulled them out.