"Weavers Words" Vol. 1 Iss. 30 Compiled By David Collins Owned By Weavers Everywhere Date Sent: July 17, 1997 Subscribers: 256 Back Issues: http://www.iei.net/~davidc/basketry.html @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Jadvick Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:33:01 -0400 From: "Kim Renich" To: To Serena Crossfield ... I looked up Jadvick on the Internet "directory assistance" and they weren't listed in Norcross. However there is a Jadvick listed in Doraville GA. The address is: Jadvick Enterprises Inc 100 Piedmont Ct # G Doraville, GA 30340 (770) 448-1356 If anyone is interested in looking up businesses or people as far as that goes, there is a great "directory assistance" which is updated quarterly. The address is: http://www.abii.com/lookupusa/ada/ada.htm Kim ... Goldsboro, NC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Correction Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:47:27 -0400 From: "Kim Renich" To: I need to correct the address I just sent for the directory assistance. You can't access it with the entire address.... go to: http://www.abii.com/lookupusa/ada Once you get there, click on the ada.htm Kim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Re: Unfinished Baskets Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:18:44 -0400 From: mjorda10@ix.netcom.com To: davidc@iei.net References: 1 Dear Folks, You mean I'm not the only one with hiding places for unfinished baskets? My worst one is an egg basket. I have a huge appreciation for people who make ribbed baskets! My patience ended with trying to keep all those ribs in the God's eye on the handle. Now the entire mess is happily (in my mind anyway) resting inside a Jeremiah basket hanging way up high. I've also had a few that I started, "unwove," made major changes to the pattern, and finally finished. I am getting better at visualizing how a pattern works up so that, for example, if there are an even number of base fillers the chicken feet won't end up on the same side! I did keep one unfinished basket for three months under my weaving table, all very neatly organized and packed and, most important, out of sight. Finally, I threw it away, remembering the frustration the poor thing had caused. I've cut new spokes and am ready to dye some weavers. Now that I've ranted about unfinished work, I'll get back to my table and finish that work! :) Weave On, Marie in Mooresville @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Insurance Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 22:41:13 -0400 From: olneyjw@juno.com (Judith W Olney) To: davidc@iei.net References: 1 I thought I'd pass some info along to you--especially Pam-- about the insurance issue. We just had Lynne Schlichting write an article for the northeast newsletter about it because she has had direct experience. Being a super organized and conscientious person, Lynne got insurance when she moved her studio into an old office building. It really didn't cost her particularly much--something under $400 a year (I even want to say it was more like $300, but don't want to create false hopes). It even covered such instances as her getting to a convention and finding that her materials and supplies had not arrived--would reimburse the income lost from the non-arrival, not just the value of the material and supplies. I believe it also covered liability and theft. So: a year ago May there was a fire in the building where Lynne has her studio. The fire itself did not reach her studio, but a lot a smelly black smoke did. It ruined her reed, caused her to cancel her classes for quite a while, and put her on to a breathing machine because she inhaled too much of that smelly smoke while tossing finished baskets out the window. Anyhow, the insurance covered about half the cost of her reed inventory (she had a fire sale--the reed was quite usable, but she couldn't stand the smell after the trauma of the fire--to recover the rest of the $$$). It covered having someone come and thoroughly clean her 3 rooms (including such things as her vast supply of Nantucket molds, computer, etc.) and get rid of the smoke smell. It paid for the breathing machine after her medical coverage topped out. It also reimbursed her for her for her lost income that resulted from the fire. All in all, I would say the premium she paid was pretty paltry for what she got. I don't know what company she was with then, but she is now with another--not because she had a claim, but because a friend of hers started selling insurance and sold for another company. My sister in law has insurance of a different nature. She does a lot of shows and was able to get a rider on her home insurance for $20 a year that covers her liability and theft at shows. She thinks it might cover more, but wasn't in the mood to check it out when I asked her about it. On the whole, I (who don't have insurance myself yet) think that in view of the cost of these policies, it would be stupid for any of us not to have insurance! I think I will look into the kind of policy Lynn has since I am petrified every time I go out that my class materials won't arrive. Judith in really hot, muggy Massachusetts. olneyjw@juno.com 34 Bradford St. Rowley, MA 01969 508-948-2838 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" Vol. 1 Iss. 29 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 02:21:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bskcreed@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net To Serena: I have an address for Jadvick if anyone is still looking for them: 100-G Piedmont Ct, Doraville, GA 30340 telephone 770-448-1356. Hope this helps you locate them. Lynn Pawley Indidnapolis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: t-pins Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:53:40 -1000 From: The Keener Clan To: davidc@iei.net Aloha from hot, breezeless Honolulu, I*ve been weaving in a frenzy trying to put stuff in the consignment shop and trying to get class samples done for display ....so I*m behind on the Weaver*s Words.... ...and I want to comment on t-pinning. When I took my first class, we made a double bottomed apple basket and we nailed the spokes to a wooden block (which not only kept the spokes straight, it gave the base of the basket that "bump"). When I took classes with Linda Scoggins, she taught us to use a macramé board with t-pins. We would t-pin the horizontal spokes to the board (for example, if we were making a market basket, we*d place the first and last horizontal spokes on the board, t-pin them, and then place the other spokes between them, spaced evenly.) and then weave the vertical spokes without having to worry about the horizontal spokes moving. Then, after we trued the base, we took the t-pins off and placed one through each corner. Then we twinned the base and removed the 4 t-pins. Linda preferred we keep them in for a few rows of weaving, but I liked taking mine off then. When I started teaching, I supplied boards (Styrofoam covered with contact paper, the cardboard pieces from bolts of fabric covered in clear contact paper, or a macramé board)--because I didn*t know any better. I thought this was how everyone wove baskets! When we started the guild and I showed up with my board and t-pins, I was laughed at! I gave the board and t-pins up shortly after that! I don*t miss it, but it was one fine beginning technique. The only time I use t-pins is when I*m doing a fruit basket that I want to have a bump on the bottom and I use half of a Styrofoam ball and t-pin through the center. (but if there are a lot of spokes or the reed is thick, I have to pound the t-pin in and yank it out with needlenose pliers.) I thank you all for the guild info. Carey Ray told me of a Texas guild who does it this way--if there is an offered basket, members can 1.) pay "tuition" and bring their own reed; 2.) pay "tuition" and buy a kit; 3.) pay "tuition" and buy the odd wire handle, etc. needed to complete the basket. The "tuition" is decided on by the guild members and this money goes into the guild*s account. I really like this idea as the guild can make the money. We do have a doorprize basket each month. Whoever said our VP is looking for "moolah" has hit it right on the head...and I don*t see that happening at all. Back to weaving--hope everyone is fine and weaving lots. aloha nui loa, Lois Honolulu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Checking In Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 08:41:08 -0400 (EDT) From: DKallner@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Just time for a quick note. In Vol. 1 Iss. 29 Marty asked what are Job's Tears. This is a seed, pearly gray in color and very hard, that some people use to make beads for embellishments. This is the first time I've grown them, so I'm not entirely sure what to expect. In Iss. 28, Jacquie in NH asked about weaving with natural materials. I've also woven with Virginia creeper and had the weaving loosen up after drying. Other weavers have told me they don't have much success with drying and resoaking Virginia creeper because it gets mooshy when it's resoaked. You could do like I do sometimes with rib-style baskets woven with fresh willow. I get the basket mostly done, then set it aside for a few weeks to dry. Save some of the fresh material in the freezer to finish the basket later, and it will stay nice and solid. I believe Kathy Kellenberger in Amana, Iowa does some stake and strand style weaving with fresh willow, but she weaves superTIGHT. I'm not sure I could weave a basket with a turned border in fresh materials and not have it be loose when the stuff dried. Give your bittersweet vine a try. I don't find it very often, but love using it for handles and rims. Donna Kallner White Lake, Wisconsin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" Vol. 1 Iss. 29 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:50:25 +0000 (GMT) From: KHOURY LORA L To: "davidc@iei.net" To Berta: I assume what you are trying to do is make a lip for a lid. You loop a piece of round reed around each of your spokes, so the long ends are on the inside of the basket. Then you twine around these as if they were spokes, keeping your twining pushed firmly against the basket. As you go around, you'll be building a shelf for the lid to sit on. When you have the shelf big enough, the pattern will probably tell you to end the twining and braid the ends of the spokes to finish it off. Lora Khoury Indy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" Vol. 1 Iss. 29 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:18:47 -0400 (EDT) From: LBADRA@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Hello fellow weavers............ I have been enjoying reading this list for some time now and decided it was time to jump in. My name is Lynn Akerhielm and I live in Carmel, Indiana. I got hooked on basket weaving about 7 years ago by a friend in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I was really enjoying it and getting very involved in the guild up there. 2 years ago we moved down here and I joined the local guild. My girls are 10 and 7 and I have gotten involved in their school as a volunteer. It always seems that the evening that the guild meets there is some other pressing matter. (Softball game, out of town husband, girl scout event or meeting, blah, blah, blah....) It makes me so mad that I never can make it. When I do, I so enjoy it......but..... I would like to address Barbara Cordell: Yes, I have a Judy Wilson that I need to finish too!! Took a class at IBA 2 years ago and it still isn't done!!! grrrr.... Let's motivate each other to GET THOSE THINGS DONE THIS SUMMER!!!!!!!! Who else out there would like to help with the motivation!!????? :-) Lora Khoury, lucky you to only have 1" left!!! Go girl!!!! Hey Lora, do you still have my shirt?? Or have the moths carried it off??? Thanks David for all your work. Are you a weaver, or just a great person??? I really enjoy this. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you....... And where are you?? Are you in Bloomington, IN?? Keep on weaving [=]=[=]=[=]=[=]=[=]=[=] =[=]=[=]=[=]=[=]=[=]=[= [=]=[=]=[=]=[=]=[=]=[=] =[=]=[=]=[=]=[=]=[=]=[= @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Weavers Words Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:14:02 -0400 From: "Jayna L. Glemby" To: davidc@iei.net Hello everyone! Just back from our annual trek to visit friends in Maine ( hot!)..stopped into Baskets Of Joy in Brunswick..they had lots of ceramic embellishments for baskets. Cute little shop. Took in a craft fair in Belfast called 'Arts in the Park' and there were several people showing baskets and many had the ceramic embellishments on them. In making the rounds of regular gift shops I picked up a few ceramic heart shapes that had angels painted on them...they had slots at the top for ribbons and small reed would certainly pass through. Have several friends who are really into angels and have already created 2 baskets using them. So keep your eyes open for a variety of items to weave into baskets. Still on vacation, weaving outside in the morning and going to a nearby lake to swim in the afternoon. Could get use to this, perhaps I'll buy some lottery tickets! :-) Whoever was looking for Shaker tapes....try DW baskets, Donna is so helpful! http://cbcc.bcwan.net/~cweber/ Hope you are all enjoying the summer.Jayna in central Massachusetts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If for any you would ever like to cancel your subscription, simply send me a message with "unsubscribe" as your subject.