Absolutely. If you've never worked with willow before, this is a great place to start.

If you work through the steps to make a medium sized random weave star, I would expect it to take you 2-3 hours. Once you've completed that, I have a couple of bonus projects to make use of any left over soaked willow. And, of course, you can keep re-watching the videos and make as many stars as you like!

For each star: 5 stoutish sticks 25-70cm long. These can be willow, ash, hazel or anything similar that you can gather from your garden or hedgerows; a bundle of 4ft basket making willow; a set of fairy lights; ribbon to hang your star. PLEASE NOTE: If you're using dry willow you will need to soak it for at least a week before it's pliable enough to use. So you'll need to plan ahead.

Yes, I can sell you a kit of everything you need. All you'd need to find is a pair of secateurs. You can choose dry willow which you'd need to soak first (in which case I'll include a bag to soak it in) or freshly cut willow which won't need soaking. My kit contains enough willow, framework sticks and fairy lights to make 3 larger stars plus up to about 20 small ones.

If you are starting with dried willow, you will need somewhere to soak it - a bath or a water butt will do - or buy my kit and get a soaking bag; a SHARP pair of secateurs and ... err .. that's it!

You can start the course whenever you like. As soon as you buy the course, you will get instant access to the video tutorials. You get full access to the course for a year from when you start it. So, if you start now, you could make some stars for this Christmas and be able to revisit the course and make more up to November next year.

I will be on hand to answer your questions via email or in my private Facebook group where you can also share photos of your finished stars and chat to other students.

Please respect the time and energy that I've put into creating this online class and don't share access to it with your friends. I completely understand that it's fun to do crafts with your friends, and I want to encourage that, but if you came with a friend to one of my In Real Life classes then you would each need to buy a ticket so please do the same here. Of course, if you are doing this course at home and your kids or partner want to watch with you and have a go, that's fine.

The instructional videos are streamed so yes, you will need to have internet access and a phone, laptop or tablet. There are a couple of down-loadable PDFs which you can print but this is not essential if you don't have access to a printer.