"Weavers Words" Vol. 1 Iss. 38 Compiled By David Collins Owned By Weavers Everywhere Date Sent August 17, 1997 Subscribers 284 Back Issues http//www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5998/ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" Vol. 1 Iss. 28 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:16:00 -0400 (EDT) From: ShebesterJ@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net David, I need to get something out to the weavers as soon as possible. Edith Bondie,fellow basket weaver and mentor to many, has had a stroke. Please remember her in your prayers. Cards may be sent to Alpena General Hospital, Alpena , MI. 49747. Thank-you for doing this, David. I will update everyone as I hear from Joyce or Sandy. Jodi Shebester @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 1 I. 37 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 06:32:05 -0400 (EDT) From: FDilts@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Hi David, I, too, am glad you are out of the hospital and hopefully feeling much better. Wanted to send an answer to Joy Moody's question of the day. Don't really know if it is odd or unusual but I like to use buckeyes as embellishments on baskets. Why? - My daughter, then 5, collected a bunch at a cemetary where we decorate graves. This way it is kind of like our lost loved ones are included in the basket as well. Maybe strange but to me a comforting thought. Happy weaving. Melanie ^i^ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Welcome Back David! Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:34:18 +0000 From: webfoot1@together.net To: "davidc@iei.net" Glad to hear that you are out of the hospital!! Many thanks to Connie for helping keep the column going! Aloha to Lois Keener in beautifl Hawaii! Saw that Bert Comstock had responded to your question about wooden knob. Here are two companies that supply them: WOODCRAFT 210 Wood County Industrial Park PO Box 1686 Parkersburg, WV 26102-1686 1-800-535-4482 The Woodworker's Store 4365 Willow Drive Medina, MN 55340 1-800-279-4441 Both companies have catalogs with tools, hardware, wooden pegs,knobs, etc. There is another one that has parts for wooden toys etc, but I can't find it right now. If I find it, it will on WW's. Hope this helps. Jack Rothmann @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Weavers Words Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:52:52 -0400 From: "Jayna L. Glemby" To: davidc@iei.net First, David, like everyone else let me add my wish for your good health and hope you stay happy and healthy. You certainly make a lot of people happy. Second, am unable to access the archives, get a message saying the server is down. Wanted to read a back issue because a while back someone from Worcester wrote in asking about guilds in the Massachusetts area, and I wanted to contact her. So, hoping that person is reading her Weaver's Words: there is a guild caled, Northeast Basketmakers Guild, and they have a special event coming up on the cape in the fall. I hesitate to give names & phone numbers on a public forum, so if that person in Worcester emails me, I'll get in touch with more info. I have not been able to attend any events yet (just joined) but love their newsletter! Now, a question for all. Way back when we were discussing stains, I didn't pay a lot of attention, Sorry :-( as I was still using a natural walnut dye or using a commercial dye for bright colors, but then decided to try stains and love the look...especially maple. BUT...can you use minwax full strength? Will the basket eventually become brittle...someone told me it would. Do I have to mix a mineral oil in with it? Any advice would be helpful. Jayna in central Massachusetts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: black spots on baskets Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:12:52 -0400 From: "The Rigterinks" To: Hi everyone! I'm hoping someone out there has a great idea for a troublesome problem. I recently finished a "photo basket" and was unable to lash it until a few days later. When I did go to lask it there were black spots all over the bottom and some on the sides as well. Needless to say, I was not a happy basket case -any ideas on how to get these spots off? I'm guessing that they are some type of mildew because the basket was wet, but this does not happen all the time. I'd appreciate any suggestions - I really don't want to throw the basket away and start from scratch if I don't have to. Thanks Keep weaving Diane @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 1 I. 37 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:12:01 -0500 From: Lora L Khoury To: davidc@iei.net To Mindy Lower: I've seen some posts from you regarding Nantuckets, and I think I even once saw your picture in one of Martha's newsletters, so I've decided you're an authority on the subject and I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I'm having with a nesting set. I sent e-mail to Nate, but am still waiting for a response. Some friends and I are making a nesting set of Nantuckets that we are going to donate to the '98 IBA convention. After talking to Nate / Eric, we decided on cherry stakes, bases, rims and handles, and ash weavers. Should be a very pretty combination. We're having real trouble using the cherry for stakes. We've used ash and cane in the past with no trouble, but this cherry is a bear! If we wet it, it's too fat to get in the groove in the base, if we don't wet it, it breaks off the minute we bend it down the sides. Now, maybe I could stick them in dry, wet them, and then rubber band them to the mold. However, when we start weaving, they hair up and crack something awful. Any suggestions? Lora Khoury Indy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Weavers Words Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 20:18:20 -0600 From: ANDREA & TOM OKEEFE Organization: SAVANNAH HOUSE To: davidc@iei.net, coltsfan@usa.net Hi Basketeers! Greetings from sunny (and how!) Florida where we've been setting heat records this week - makes us long for winter. I've finally settled in to the new house - rearranged the living room furniture for the 100th time - hopefully the last and at last have my built-in cabinets installed in my workroom. I've unpacked the last box and organized my reed and am really back to weaving - Oh, Joy!!!!! Dear David, was so sorry to hear you were in the hospital. Hope you're feeling your old self again. Connie, thanks for keeping us going while David was under the weather. This list means so much to all of us. Richard, thanks for the tip on the needle nose pliers - I'll check it out the next time I'm near a Sears store, and Mindy - thanks for the info on Nantucket Island. Linda is so excited about her trip. She makes the most beautiful tapestry Nantucket purses. I'm working on one now - my first Nantucket. Makes me as nervous as a cat. A friend of mine just moved from the Island to the mainland and had her first dinner party last Tuesday. I made her a Florida basket utilizing palm inflorescence and a bunch of other natural materials. It took me a good 10 hours to weave as it was a large basket. Well her reaction made it all worth while - even though I tore my fingers up pretty good handling the rough materials. I though she was going to pass out when she saw it - she turned ghost white. I don't sell my baskets - so the look on her face was worth everything to me. These are the moments that make basketmaking so wonderful - it's so satisfying. Well I've rambled on enough - happy weaving, everyone. Andrea Palm Island, Fl @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Subject: Re: pattern writing Date: Sun, 17 Aug 97 13:13:12 EDT From: Devon_Branca@mlsonline.com (Devon Branca) Organization: MLS Online To: davidc@iei.net (David Collins) CC: davidc@iei.net Hi everyone, It's been hot and humid here and maybe that is why I am writing to complain :o)... No, really I think I have a valid complaint (and probably a lot of you will agree with me)...I don't mean to be negative, but I am really getting aggravated about getting patterns that have gross mistakes in them! Just today I pulled out a pattern that called for a "Hex Hoop", is called Hex in the name of the basket, and is clearly, in the photo and the directions, on an Octagonal handle (eight sides [Octagonal] instead of SIX [Hexagonal])! Recently I have used patterns that had lines left out, words so totally misspelled as to cause guessing and deciphering, incorrect listing of supplies and amounts, misuse of words (such as "clip"...in one line it is used for the word "cut" and the very next line it means "hold together with a clothespin"). One pattern put in a comment about "optional" fillers which would have necessitated changing the entire weave of the base of the basket...but no explanation on doing this... I've gotten patterns where the basket photo does not match the pattern at all, weavers and stakes are totally different--only the shape is the same.... Come on!!! Even on patterns that have been supposedly "tested" I've found big mistakes. Why should we, people who are paying good money, have to pay the price of these errors--AND twice...first when we buy the pattern and then again when we TRY to make it? How many of you have ended up with a basket that the stakes were too short, the weavers ended up on the wrong side of the handle, the base had the fillers folding the wrong way, the handle was too short, you had to rip out a row of dyed weaver that left marks, or you just gave up in frustration!? I think using someone to test a pattern that is your best friend, or who knows your style so well as to "read things" into it that aren't there, just doesn't work! Gosh, just proofreading the pattern would be a big help... Sorry, but I just HAD to say this. :o) Am I alone in this thinking, or what? :o( I just think with a little care, patterns could be drastically improved. ******************* Now just watch there is probably a typo in all this! ha ha. Cheri Branca ***MLS Online-An Internet BBS. 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