I have gotten to this point on my pine needle basket and i have to say that the beginning is definitely the hardest part of the basket to get going. You have to use a tool called the gauge. it is the thing that holds all of the needles in place while you tie them together. you then need to start wrapping them around each other while pulling more of them out. Once I start getting more out of the gauge then i start to put more pine needles in the other side of the gauge.
