"Weavers Words" Vol. 2 Iss. 70 Date Sent: December 30, 1998 Subscribers: 889 David Collins 408 North Devon Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46219 317-899-5747 davidc@iei.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Do You Like Weavers Words? Click Below To "Recommend-It" To A Friend! http://recommend-it.com/l.z.e?s=210339 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% "Web Cards" - Create Full-Color Postcards For Your Web Page. http://www.printing.com/affiliate.asp?site=davidc For every free sample of "Web Cards" that you request from the above link, I will receive a $1 commission. It cost you NOTHING. Once you receive your free sample, you can purchase personalized "Web Cards" for your web page and/or business if you like. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% "Bare Walls" Basket Pictures/Prints If you are looking for basket pictures/prints, check out "Bare Walls" through Weaver's Words site. I will get a 15% commission from Bare Walls for every picture/print ordered. The address to check out the pictures is: http://www.iei.net/~davidc/prints.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Hi Everyone, Here's something I thought you would enjoy. 'Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse. The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste At the holiday parties had gone to my waist. When I got on the scales there arose such a number! When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber). I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared; The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared. The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please." As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt And prepared once again to do battle with dirt--- I said to myself, as I only can "You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!" So--away with the last of the sour cream dip, Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip. Every last bit of food that I like must be banished "Till all the additional ounces disappeared or vanished. I won't have a cookie--not even a lick. I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick. I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie, I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry. I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore--- But isn't that what January's for? Unable to giggle, no longer a riot. Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet! Take Care & Happy New Year, David davidc@iei.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 2 I. 69 Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 09:45:00 EST From: Sandybsk@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net A joyous holiday season to all the WW subscribers. We are in FL for the winter, enjoying temps in the mid-80's. Although the weather is great it just doesn't seem like Christmas. It's difficult to get into the spirit, unless you are a FL native. Before we left IN we had an exchange student from Columbia - she was a wonderful gal. She's now in FL to visit Disney World and we are traveling to meet her and her family. It was a great experience. After the holidays my basket classes will start in Ft. Myers and that's always fun. The retirees really enjoy the time spent learning weaving - they go home with a finished project = all in the same day. Happy Holidays to all - hope to see you at the IN basket convention in March. Sandy Drexler, MS Creations www.bewley.net/mscreations %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Happy Holidays and my Special Christmas Gift. Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 11:59:42 -0500 From: Gretchen Hautzinger To: David Collins I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, which ever holidays you choose to observe and a very Happy, Prosperous New Year. I have a question for Lois. What are the inserts for? Or better yet what are inserts. I hate to admit, but I have no idea what they are. I finished my best craft fair season, Have all my orders filled and delivered. My Christmas party over and am totally exhausted. I mean totally. I will start making baskets Jan. 1 so as not to swamp myself in the fall again. Also am trying to line up a couple of spring shows, which I never do really well with, but does let me have some money to buy supplies. I am going to try new stains this year. I have always used the Weaver's stain, but I want some darker richer colors. I saw a basket maker at one of the shows and she said she used a stain from Wal-Mart straight out of the can? I have no idea what she was talking about, but the colors were rich and beautiful. I have used the walnut stain but it always looks dry, have tried various waters, etc, but the dry look isn't my idea of a good look. My friends friend uses tea dye also and then she sprays with a flat polyurethane. her baskets are absolutely beautiful. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the poly? I got my best Christmas present ever on Christmas Eve. My husband and I are working on a project that means more to us than anything, and we crossed one giant hurdle. It really means the project can progress and there is hope. No fair telling yet Pam. I don't want to jinx anything. But when the project is complete and I know all the details, I will share with you all. But it was the best Christmas present ever. No gift could be better and I believe God is fully involved and overseeing this project. I would also like to personally thank Pam and Dan for all of their Beautiful bases. If you haven't tried them they are superior. Peace and Happiness Gretchen %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: resp to Bert Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:34:31 +0000 From: Jeffre and Michelle Harrison To: davidc@iei.net Bert: Thank you for mentioning Royalwood for waxed linen thread. I just finished a Victorian baby bassinet for my mother-in-law's doll house for Christmas, and I was thrilled with how easy the waxed linen was to work with. I made it as close as I could to the design of the one she slept in when she was first born. I'll be giving it to her Saturday. I can't wait to see her face! I think I've been to the Royalwood website, because somewhere on this desk is a shopping list with their name at the top. I do a lot of "virtual" virtual shopping. That is to say, I shop a lot on paper from the net, but actually order very little. I guess you could call it "actual" window shopping. Peaceful season to all of you, Michelle in Florida (where it is still hot so I turned the air conditioner to a lower temperature so I could wear my Christmas flannel. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Bad Handles and what to do??? Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:27:22 -0500 From: "cabcar" To: "David Collins" Fellow Weavers, Really have a problem. Hate to bring up this close to wonderful Holidays but in a quandary about the way to proceed with problem. I have been buying the "dove tailed" handles brad to hold together. My handles are separating and majority has no sign of brad and not a true "dove tail" which is a locking mechanism. The handles have what one book refers to as a miter cut, straight up and down, cross ways lines. This has been a wonderful year for baskets but now I am afraid to go back to same shows. What happens when customer wants to return baskets, I do not feel I can refund full price, bought what I thought was the best. Please let me know what you would do?? My suppliers just sent me a couple replacement handles but that is only a small part of the cost of the basket, not to mention the time involved. Really feel at a lost about how to proceed, feel sure that some will be coming back. Do suppliers have any responsibility when things are advertised one way and delivered another? Appreciate response through WW or e-mail at cabcar@erols.com Thank you. Carolyn of Suffolk %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Weavers Words V.2 I 69 Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 22:48:49 -0800 From: boitnotl@sensible-net.com (Larry T. Boitnott) Organization: Larry T. Boitnott To: davidc@iei.net Seasons Greetings to All! Lois in Honolulu - Restoration Products in Fairmount, IN has ash handle fillers 7/8" X 48". Their # is 1-800-562-5291. Hope this would work for you. Jean C. May - I remember the heaters from my childhood farm days. They were used to keep the stock watering tank from freezing. Great idea!! Hope you enjoyed your "whirlwind" trip up North. The many recipes for dyes and stains are as varied as the number of weavers. Lots of room for experimenting!! Ruthanne Morningstar - I have lived in Weidman for the past 3 years. It is 16 miles northwest of Mt. Pleasant. Prior to that I lived in Lawrence which is 35 miles west of Kalamazoo, MI. I still consider Lawrence home. I am looking for a small handheld saw to cut gourds. I want to be able to cut the top off at such an angle that it can be used as a lid. The same angle that is used to cut the top off a pumpkin to make a jack -o-lantern. Any ideas or sources? Thanks in advance. Sue Ann %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: "Seasons Greetings" by Darlene M. Hyry Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 22:23:21 EST From: CHobbsNANA@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net The Season's Greetings, by Darlene M. Hyry, is very clever, and very funny. My husband and I both had a good laugh. As a matter of fact, this latest issue (Dec 24) had several very funny stories, and was a great treat to read on Christmas Day. I don't understand about the toxic nature of chewing tobacco. If it is being chewed, some of it is being ingested. How can it be fatal? Clare %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re:handle fillers Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:20:38 -0500 From: "Angie - Country Seat" To: "David - Weavers Words" Hi all and happy holidays to everyone! To Lois - We carry the handle fillers in 1/2" wide x 24" and 36" long. the 7/8" handle fillers are available in 24", 36" and 48" long. They can be ordered in our secure online catalog at http://www.countryseat.com/shophome.htm . Happy New Year! Angie The Country Seat http://www.countryseat.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Haouli Makahiki Hou Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:22:34 -1000 From: Joanne Howard To: "Collins, David" Happy New Year! I have been reading awhile but not contributing as I hadn't had much time to weave and play for awhile. Life has slowed down long enough to enjoy classes, weaving and painting again. Speaking of painting. Holy Cow! I am taking a tole painting class with Lois and what fun we have. I think at some point the teacher might just want to kick us out for disturbing the peace. The class is great fun and a nice treat from weaving. It still keeps the creative juices going and it's another art form I can learn to use with and on my baskets. Although, I can't seem to "Float" to save my life. I did a snowman's face and gave him a black beard by accident. I am hoping to learn enough to apply some of what I am learning to my basket strips. If I don't learn anything, that's ok. I am having a blast. Thanks, Lois. It is fun because of you. I had a great time weaving Christmas gifts. It is nice to have a room just for my weaving and painting. I have a big window right in front of my table with bird feeder hanging from the roof of the house. What entertainment!! It has been beautiful weather here. I admit it really didn't feel much like Christmas. Having family and friends around the table is most important. But, a little snow would make it nice. Oh well, maybe someday I will be digging out my driveway wishing I were back in Hawaii. I will enjoy it while I have it. Any weaver/painters out there with fun ideas to paint on a basket besides hearts and flowers? I will pass one along. I made a small square basket with a one inch maple strip through the middle. I found a dog motif stencil with a small bone, arf arf and other assorted dog related things. Painted that on the strip and filled it with dog treats and a toy for my friends pooch for Xmas. It was a big hit! Aloha oe, Joanne in Honolulu %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Well Wishes To All Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:26:08 -0500 From: martyhln@juno.com To: davidc@iei.net Hi David and World Basketmakers...I hope your Holidays are going great. As we approach the New Year I would like to wish you all Joy and lots of Happiness, for the entire year. May we all have the peace we seek. In hopes that our Nation will heal, that we can continue to be the leader of Nations, so we can help those less fortunate than our self, so no child shall go to bed hungry. I pray for Peace and Good will always. David...a job well done in 1998, Hi to Norma I will see her at IBA convention in March. To all of you...I enjoy all the posting that you do, I read it all, and enjoy the different opinions thank you. We are sure a diverse group. I am glad a few of you enjoyed the story, it sure made me weep. Lois, thank you for the inquiry about my pattern, I have sold quite a few, and have several inquiry, about it, because of your post. Everyone Happy New Year, PEACE, be with you. Until next time love. Warmest Regards...Marty Holihan...Flint, MI...dholihan@gfn.org (or)...martyhln@juno.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: basket teachers Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:53:44 -0500 From: "Angie - Country Seat" To: "David - Weavers Words" Hi all, I'm not sure if I sent this to WW's in the past or not. We are developing a master directory of basket and seatweaving teachers around the country (and world) as a service to our customers. If you teach and would like to be included in the directory please contact us with the following information: Name Address Phone Number Where you teach Are you willing to travel? Type of weaving you teach Class size Permission to use on Web site? If you have any special requirements (i.e., summer classes only, adults only, etc.) please note that also. You can either e-mail the information to us or post it directly to our Open Form http://www.countryseat.com/Forums/index.cfm?CFApp=5&Thread_ID=123&mc=8 . Please let us know if you have any questions. If you have already signed our list, please use the above check list and make sure your information is current and correct. Thanks and happy holidays, Angie The Country Seat http://www.countryseat.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 2 I. 69 Date: Mon, 28 Dec 98 17:03:02 PST From: pywoodbury@worldnet.att.net To: "David Collins" References: 1, 2 Hi Friends and Weavers: I hope everyone had a very Merry Chirstmas. It has been a while since I wrote, but things have finally calmed down for a few months again so I have a little time for myself. October, November and December are always so busy I have time to Christmas shop let alone anything else. I wanted to respond to the person who made 7 baskets for a special order and the lady only ended up taking 7. I have been selling baskets for almost 12 years and sad to say sooner or later this will happen to anybody taking a basket order. I now always take a non refundable deposit for whatever is ordered. Depending on who is ordering depends on the deposit. I fit is a customer who has ordered before I may take a $10 deposit on a $50 order just because I know they won't renege on the deal, but for a complete stranger I take half. You will not believe how many times I have taken a $20 deposit on a $40 basket and called the person to say it was done only to never have them come and get it. I look at it as I made an extra $20 on that sale as the basket will sell sooner or later. I hang on to it for a few months and if they haven't came to pick it up I put it up for sale. I figure if they call a year later I'll make another, but this has never happened. I guess they change their minds and would rather throw good money away on nothing than have to pay the remainder that is due. Unfortunately the same goes with our guilds. I cannot tell you how many times we had a guest teacher coming in and assured her of X amount of students only to have a couple of no-shows. As I am the chairperson of one of the guilds this proved embarrassing to me. We now take a non-refundable deposit at guild and if we have a no show the guest teacher gets the deposit and gets to keep her kit. Generally one of the guild members liked the basket enough that the extra kits were purchased anyhow. I've been busy the last couple of weeks making Pat Levittes Wee Wishes. I have finished one on a duck bone and one on a turkey bone. I have to tell a funny story, Pat called me and said Pam do you know anything about some basketweavers letters on the internet. I said yes it is called Weavers Words. Well it seems one of you called Pat and asked to purchase the pattern, which Pat was more than happy to send but didn't quite know what this basketweavers thing on the internet was. I explained it to her and I'm guessing whoever called and wanted the pattern has it by now. I'm back to the same place I was last year at this time, desperately in need of cleaning my basket room and the basement where I store supplies. I promised myself and I think swore to everyone on Weavers Words that I would never let it get so out of hand again. Well I lied. It is such a project that I need to be in the right state of mind and as my husband is off for the holidays it won't get done 'til he goes back to work. Someday if there is a basket saint, he is going to look over me and remind me to be neater. I received the out of print antler basket book by Bobi Harris Marshall for Christmas so I have been looking it over really good. I drilled a couple of antlers, but used little ones as I have a few nice big ones but wanted to practice new techniques on the smaller ones first. Besides when I sell antler baskets I can always sell the little ones, but the bigger ones are so pricey that they are extremely difficult to sell so like to have someone or something in particular in mind before I make a big antler basket. Of course this is just another way of procrastinating on cleaning my basket room and basement. I too have carpal tunnel. I wish I had wove in a brace from the day I started weaving. I keep the wrist and hand from getting a lot worse by weaving and sleeping in a wrist brace now, but think I could have avoided doing the damage to my wrist and hand had I wore a wrist brace to weave in all along. For any of you just starting to show the symptoms of carpal tunnel, you might want to consider getting a wrist brace. Most major insurance's will pay for it, but if not most drug stores sell a fairly good brace. I think possibly my wrist is far too gone for the Vitamin B-6 to work as I tried it and didn't see any difference. I also have talked to several people who take it, but take it in mega doses and I prefer not to do that. Ruthanne - I loved the story about Theresa Ohno, isn't that the truth making several of one basket is just about unbearable. Pam From cold and snowy MI %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Happy New Year Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:38:57 -0500 From: "Jayna Glemby" To: "David Collins" Happy New Year wishes to all of you...my, we sure are growing in numbers! I am the happy recipient of a swing arm lamp for my studio and it has made weaving in the evening hours such a joy! In fact it such a joy just to have the studio...gads how I love to say that word....when actually it's just a spare bedroom, but it's where I weave. Right now it's still stacked with boxes, but little by little I'm purchasing storage materials. Want to wait for the spring and hit yard sales and look for an old cupboard, that would be ideal for things. I've been using up scraps of twining by forming little 4 and 6 inch wreaths. Then hot gluing eucalyptus leaves and dried flowers on them...very cute! Boy I wish they made longer cords on glue guns. Hint, if you decide to make wreaths (this is not a new idea, many of you probably do it already) glue the dried items onto the wrong side of the wreath......then when someone turns it over (and they will) the back will look very nice and neat. There is definitely a right and wrong side of the wreath, you'll see that. Some I've dyed walnut and some I've left natural. Bye the way...many thanks for all the recipes for tea and coffee dyes....this information was given before but I never kept it. My new Year's resolution is to make a scrap book of the hints from WW, and I've already started, with a section on dyes. I stopped making impossible resolutions years ago....no more guilt trips for me. Now I make positive ones and they are easier to keep. We had a little snow the day before Christmas, here in central Massachusetts, but by and large it's still been very warm. Mean time, I wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year. For those who are hurting, I wish healing and peace and calm. And, especially to David: many thanks for all you do to keep us all together in this wonderful sharing forum. Jayna %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Martha, again Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 06:18:05 -0500 From: Emberg Organization: BACHEMBERG BASKETS To: davidc@iei.net Received this over Christmas - thought you would enjoy. Dear Santa, I rarely ask for much. This year is no exception. I don't need diamond earrings, handy slicer-dicersor comfy slippers. I only one little thing, and I want it deeply. I want to slap Martha Stewart. Now, hear me out, Santa. I won't scar her or draw blood or anything. Just one good smack, right across her smug little cheek. I get all cozy inside just thinking about it. Don't grant this wish just for me. Do it for thousands of women across the country. Through sheer vicarious satisfaction, you'll be giving a gift to us all. Those of us leading average, garden variety lives aren't concerned with gracious living. We feel pretty good about ourselves if our paper plates match when we stack them on the counter, buffet-style for dinner. We're tired of Martha showing us how to make centerpieces from hollyhock dipped in 18-carat gold. We're plumb out of liquid gold. Unless it's of the furniture polish variety. We can't whip up Martha's creamy holiday sauce, spiced with turmeric. Most of us can't even say turmeric, let alone figure out what to do with it. OK, Santa, maybe you think I'm being a little harsh. But I'll bet with all the holiday rush you didn't catch that interview with Martha in last week's USA Weekend. I'm surprised there was enough room on the page for her ego. We discovered that not only does Martha avoid take-out pizza (she's only ordered it once), she refuses to eat it cold. No cold pizza? Is Martha Stewart Living? When it was pointed out that she could microwave it, she replied, "I don't have a microwave." The reporter, Jeffrey Zaslow, noted that she said this "in a tone that suggests you shouldn't either." Well lah-dee-dah. Imagine that, Santa. That lovely microwave you brought me years ago, in which I've learned to make complicated dishes like popcorn and hot chocolate, has been declared undesirable by Queen Martha. What next? The coffee maker? In the article, we learned that Martha has 40 sets of dishes adorning an entire wall in her home. Forty sets. Can you spell "overkill"? And neatly put away, no less. If my dishes make it to the dishwasher, that qualifies as "put away" in my house. Martha tells us she's already making homemade holiday gifts for friends. "Last year, I made amazing silk-lined scarves for everyone," she boasts. Not just scarves, mind you. Amazing scarves. Martha's obviously not shy about giving herself a little pat on the back. In fact, she does so with such frequency that one has to wonder if her back is black and blue. She goes on to tell us that "homemaking is glamour for the 90s" and says her most glamorous friends are "interested in stain removal, how to iron a monogram, how to fold a towel." I have one piece of advice, Martha: get new friends. Glamorous friends fly to Paris on a whim. They drift past the Greek Islands on yachts, sipping champagne from crystal goblets. They step out for the evening in shimmering satin gowns, whisked away by tuxedoed chauffeurs. They do not spend their days pondering the finer art of toilet bowl sanitation. Zaslow notes that Martha was named one of America's 25 most influential people by Time magazine (nosing out Mother Theresa, Madeline Allbright and Maya Angelou, no doubt). The proof of Martha's influence: after she bought white-fleshed peaches in the supermarket, Martha says, "People saw me buy them. In an instant, they were all gone." I hope Martha never decides to jump off a bridge. A guest in Martha's home told Zaslow how Martha gets up early to roller blade with her dogs to pick fresh wild blackberries for breakfast. This confirms what I've suspected about Martha all along: She's obviously got too much time on her hands. Teaching the dogs to roller blade. What a show off. If you think the dogs are spoiled, listen to how Martha treats her friends: She gave one friend all 272 books from the Knopf Everyman Library. It didn't cost much. Pocket change, really. Just $5,000. But what price friendship, right? When asked if others should envy her, Martha replies, Don't envy me. I'm doing this because I'm a natural teacher. You shouldn't envy teachers. You should listen to them." Zaslow must have slit a seam in Martha's ego at this point, because once the hot air came hissing out, it couldn't be held back. "Being an overachiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards," says Martha. And of her Web Page on the Internet, Martha declares herself an "important presence" as she graciously helps people organize their sad, tacky little lives. There you have it, Santa. If there was ever someone who deserved a good smack, it's Martha Stewart. But I bet I won't get my gift this year. You probably want to smack her yourself. Marilyn %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 2 I. 69 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:24:05 -0500 From: "Carty's" Organization: Pinelands Folk Music Center To: David Collins References: 1 Just wanting to wish everyone Happy New Year!!!!!!!!! I have been very busy with my shop and a few family problems so I haven't posted anything lately. Had to get 12 baskets done in two days. Well I did it ,but it was a lot of work. I hate making the same basket twice. Anyone passing threw NJ please stop by the shop and say hi. The hot cider is always on. Trying to get away from the caffeine in that coffee. We are having are basket exhibit again in April. Anyone wanting details can e-mail me. And I hope Kathi C. will be one of our judges again. My husband made the comment that I have never made any baskets for him. So for Christmas I made him a really nice lidded basket and put all kinds of stuff in it. He was really surprised and liked the basket a whole lot. Well gotta run and open the shop have a great new years eve everyone. IN PEACE njweaver2 Mary Carty http://www.pinelandsfolk.com (We have changed the location of our website.) Baskets & Dulcimers From cold wet New Jersey Pines %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:20:38 -0500 From: "Mary Hooper" To: Pamela--What a great idea about the spirit basket. Thanks Jean: Thanks for the tip on the dye pot heater. When I lived in Maine (back when the dinosaurs were young) we used electric heaters in place of our oil dipsticks to keep the oil from freezing. Your idea sounds similar. Do you suppose an aquarium heater would do the trick? I'm fortunate that I have a large basement with plenty of room for dye pots. Here's how I do it to keep the mess to a minimum: I have the hangers from hanging flowerpots strategically hung from nails in the floor joists and old shower curtains under them. I dip a basket in teh garbage can while wearing rubber gloves, then quickly twist back and forth the basket while in the can but above the dye level. This way, much of the excess dye remains in the can and the rest drips onto the plastic. The Morningstars: What a great story about Theresa Ohno. Sorry I missed knowing her. Roberta Comstock: Don't have a problem with mold in the black walnut but I'll sure try the salt trick in commercial dyes. Thanks. Happy Weaving New Year to you all. Mary Hooper. mjhooper@mitchell.main.nc.us %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Happy New Year! Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 01:42:21 +1100 From: M & A Lizotte To: "Collins, David" Just wanted to wish everyone at Weaver's Words a Happy New Year from Downunder, especially you, David. We had a great Christmas here, a bit overcast but warm. Roasted the turkey and the vegetables in the BBQ and ate outside. We will probably be spending New Year's day at the beach. Just got a new waxed linen pattern I am dying to try. Have cut all the pieces so it is portable enough to take with me to the beach...just have to be careful not to get it coated with sand! Just to let those of you who have been emailing me privately know....I'll be off line for about a week (no longer I hope) from Monday as my hard drive is slowly crashing and is going in for repairs. Amazingly enough, it is still under warranty! Don't these things usually happen about a week after the warranty expires? Anyway, Happy New Year to all of you! (And Eileen, I have sent my deposit in for THE GATHERING so I'll see you in the new year.....how exciting!) Anna in Tassie where it is a bit windy but sunny and warm. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If for any you would ever like to cancel your subscription, simply send me a message with "unsubscribe" as your subject.