"Weavers Words" Vol. 3 Iss. 111 Date Sent: March 01, 2000 Web Page: http://members.xoom.com/dgcollins/ Subscribers: 1327 David Collins 408 North Devon Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone: (317) 899-5747 Fax: (520) 222-0391 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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The Basket Bookstore Stop by "Weavers Words Basketry Bookstore" for a great selection of basketry literature & save up to 40%. Over 40 titles to choose from. 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If you are one of these subscribers, or know one of someone who has not been receiving Weaver's Words, you can get all of the issues on the Weaver's Words web page. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Picture('s) Added To Web Page Since The Last Issue NONE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: WEAVER'S WORDS Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:26:39 -0600 From: "Rocky and Sarah" To: Hi David A couple of issues ago, someone requested info on the Indiana Basketmakers Association Convention and I meant to respond but it slipped my mind -- I don't think anyone else has. The IBA 2000 Convention, As Time Goes By, will be held March 23rd through 26th, 2000 at the Adams Mark Hotel in Indianapolis, IN. Visitors day will Saturday, March 25th from 8 A.M. until 5 P.M. There is no charge for IBA members, for non-members it's $4. Check in at the registration table to register. Visitors are not allowed in the classrooms. Just a note to remind everyone -- The IBA welcomes information for its newsletter The Last Lash. Please send any info (events, tips, articles, etc.) to: Sarah Kuester 1400 Jackson Avenue Evansville, IN 47714 rsk@sigecom.net I am also still looking for anyone in the Evansville or southern Indiana area who would be interested in joining a new guild. We now actually have a place to meet and our first meeting will be April 15th. If you are interested, please contact me at the address or email above. Speaking of starting a guild HELP WANTED -- I would appreciate any information anyone could lend on starting a new basket weaving guild. Most of us are fairly new, so I'm not sure exactly how to handle everything. Any insights and advice is most appreciated. Thank you! Thanks again David for all of your hard work! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Bits and Pieces Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:07:03 -0500 From: John Dorris To: "Weavers Words" Lisa, I display my necklaces on a tie rack. The make some nice ones these days that aren't too expensive. The one I use has two staggered rows of small "pegs". I have mine in the downstairs bathroom hanging above the light switch. It's usually the last place I am before I leave the house and that way I see them and am reminded to wear one. (I need all the reminders I can get) Am actually getting somewhat organized which is a scary thing. Today I made a list of all my Nantucket molds and then measured the size of the bases they take. Even put it on the computer. That way I can print it out and take it with me to convention. You never know when you might run up on a good deal on bases and trying to remember what size mold takes what size base isn't easy. Suzanne Moore had a box with various bases in it last year. Not knowing what size I needed didn't stop me from buying (not much stops me when I'm in the mood) but at least with the list I could be sure I could use what I bought. Billie in Va. Beach. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: (no subject) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:42:26 -0600 From: Steve Campbell To: "davidc@iei.net" Hello, weavers! My husband and I are going to Dayton, Ohio the first weekend in May for a graduation. We'll have a little time to spend touring. Does anyone have recommendations on where we can find baskets - either for viewing or purchase? I'm particularly interested in finding styles that might be more common to the region. Thanks! Maggi M in Minneapolis, MN. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 3 I. 110 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:48:26 -0800 From: Sharle Osborne To: David Collins Lisa Carstens wrote: I have been recently developing quite a collection of basket necklaces and I am looking for a clever way to display them-preferably on the wall. Does anyone have any ideas? I know there are several of you out there who are into basket jewelry-waxed linen pouches and such-where do you keep/display them? I would love to hear from you! Thanks! I wear some type of basketry pouch or necklace almost every day to work. I took a forked stick of peeled Devil's Club and drilled holes a couple inches apart and then put short pieces of dowels into the holes. I screwed this to my bathroom wall. The pouches hang several from each dowel. Any branch or piece of root would do. Devils club happens to be easy to peel, and ends up a very pretty blond wood color. I just started on some small knitted pouches where you thread a hank (1200) seed beads onto size 8 cotton yarn (thread). I'll list the pattern book and address soon, it is out in the car now. Very portable and doesn't need soaking. More later. Sharle Osborne sharleo@orca.esd114.wednet.edu http://olympus.net/personal/skoehler/bskt.htm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 3 I. 110 /Antiquing Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:43:17 -0500 From: "Joe Conroy" Reply-To: "Joe Conroy" <@ids.net> To: "David Collins" References: 1 Good morning, Thanks for all the responses to my question of antiquing a basket. Joe Conroy Exeter, RI %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Craft Fair Displays Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:27:01 EST From: Wickrwoman@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net, dgleixne@strong-funds.com Dianne, I haven't done any outdoor craft fairs for about three or four years now, but what I had was a very nice system that I could "man handle" all by myself. Once in a great while, my young daughter would go along with me to the craft fairs, but usually I had to do all the carting and setting up of the displays. A wonderful woodworker made up four, six-foot high and three feet wide, hinged panels that we covered with hardware cloth wire (small little squares, similar to chicken wire, but lots smaller) and then I covered each panel with muslin, attached to the outer sides with Velcro strips. Since I had a lot of deer antler wall sculptures, I needed hanging space and the muslin was a cream color which did not compete with the basket colors. I bought a EZ Up brand of canopy from Elaine Martin for around $400 at the time, placed the panels in the inside corners and attached them with heavy wire to each pole. I also bought the pole weights from the company to keep the canopy from blowing away, especially if we were not allowed to put tie-downs into the ground or pavement. Then I had my woodworker make up a series of various height plywood boxes, which nested inside each other. These three or four boxes were turned upside down and my tabletop antler sculptures were placed on them. I also created a red dogwood "fence waddle" to go around the outside of a long folding table for me to display my photograph albums, brochures and any other literature I cared to have out on the table. The whole set up took me a while to do by myself and was kinda heavy, but it all fit nicely in my full size Ford 150 cargo van. The panels were six feet high and slid in vertically on their side, next to the wall of the van. I also packed lots of stuff in the plywood boxes. If you check in The Crafts Report, and Sunshine Artists magazines, you will find several advertisements for various canopy set ups and they also make cardboard display cubes now. Good Luck! Please check out my PhotoPoint album that is called "Arts & Craft Shows" for some ideas on what displays worked for me. You will also see the really early displays with the plastic diner canopies, disregard those, please! Hahaha! Here's the index URL: Wicker Woman's PhotoPoint Albums http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=16796&Auth=false The Wicker Woman Cathryn Peters/Zumbro Falls, Minnesota Wicker restoration specialist, basketmaker, teacher, author. Visit my website http://www.wickerwoman.com/ http://wickerwoman.listbot.com/ Subscribe to my free newsletter on wicker repair, seat weaving and basketry! Email: Wickrwoman@aol.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 3 I. 110 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:52:10 PST From: "Jennifer Forsyth" To: davidc@iei.net Hello Everyone!! To the Lurking Amateur in Michigan: I have had consistent luck with Suzanne Moore's NC Basketworks, Gratiot Lake Basketry and KMC Baskets & Folkart. KMC has a website, http://www.kmcbaskets.com, and Kathi is great. She is full of information and happy to help you out. Check out her site. Both NC Basketworks and Gratiot Lake have extensive catalogs, great service and quality supplies. Good luck...Jenn Forsyth %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: information for the non-computer literate - non-basket related Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:54:12 -0500 From: "Dolores Gatz" To: "David" This is really a computer message, nothing to do with baskets. Just I always wondered and thought you might have too. Have you ever wondered how your email traveled or where it went? I'm going to attempt to explain something I learned in school. When doing Swap7, I wrote the emails, they all left my Outbox at the same time to travel to all of you entered. A few days later I received some email saying certain ones of you never got a swap partner. I went in and looked and my Outbox was empty and 'sent swap partners' folder was full. I just went in hi-lighted the person I was looking for and clicked resend. Simple. Now out of 144 participants, I'd say there was only 8 - 10 that said they didn't get a partner. Not bad odds. But why didn't it get there the first time. Well, lets approach this from this end. When I'm done typing this, I'll click sent. Now part of your computer's system has the job of packaging this email up to go down the line. But guess what it doesn't go as one package. When it gets to the nic card to leave your computer out onto that wire (whether its a computer cable or phone line), it leaves as thousands of packages. Now each of those packages (like snail mail) has an address of where it's going, a return address of where it's from. But it also has a sequence #. So when your email gets to where it's going the receiving computer can put it back together in the proper sequence. Pretty amazing, but that's not the half of it. Those thousands of packages do not necessarily stay together. They don't even take the same wire highway. Some may go by way of Florida, others Alaska, and others may go straight from me to David. Those little packages, just like you driving on the highway, look to go the route with the least amount of traffic. Pretty Amazing. Now on top of that depended on what your system has. Your mail can be traveling with collision detection or collision avoidance. Collision detection means when your data is going out onto the line it stops and looks for traffic. When there's no traffic it goes. Collision avoidance means when going out onto the line it travels like a fire truck with sirens blasting yelling look out here I come. It's up to the traffic on the line to look out. Pretty Wild. Now all those little packages are to David. If one of them should have a collision, its dead, killed, its all over. That means you are not reading this message. But if you are reading this message that means all those packages got to David safely. Pretty amazing. What's even more amazing is when David sends the next WW's to all of us that will mean his system is sending about millions maybe billions of packages out onto the lines to come to us. And we thought our highways were full. So now, you know what happened when your email didn't arrive. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: Baby Gift Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:00:38 EST From: MSWF@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Hi, I make a lot of Appalachian baskets so I gave a large one to my kids to use for organizing baby toys. I was surprised to see babies in the crawling stage using it--they just reached up and tipped it over to get toys out. Dale in 15 months old now and the basket has survived. I told his parents to let me know if it needed repair and to save the hoops if the ribs were really damaged. That style of basket is decorative so when toys are cleaned up, the room looks nice too. I may be a latecomer with this idea, but it took Rich and Celine to devise a use I would not have considered. Mary Fulton %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:52:33 -0500 From: "Dolores Gatz" To: "David" Lurking amateur in Michigan - try kits from people like Chris Lamb, Sosse Baker, Dianne Stanton. I've got some great kits from them. You can order directly from them or contact Carol at Gratiot Lake Basketry. Carol has kits that various basket maker instructors sells. I know people like these put kits together and use the quality reed that they use themselves. If you need addresses give me a yell and I'll look them up. Dolores %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 3 I. 110 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:01:21 -0600 From: Roberta R Comstock To: davidc@iei.net "Weavers Words" Vol. 3 Iss. 110 Lisa Carstens - I pin a lot of my showy jewelry pieces to a bulletin board. I often hang necklace pouch baskets on a wall-mounted cup rack. Miniature free-standing baskets usually end up in a small glass curio cabinet. Cathy Cupp - For a large oval hoop such as your customer wants, I'd probably go with willow. If you have a willow weaver in your area, they should be able to come up with a sturdy version of the correct size and shape. Bert Comstock Independence, MO %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Kirk Update - Tuesday 2/29/00 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:12:34 EST From: "Wendy Milne" To: davidc@iei.net HI all! Well, Kirk had a busy day yesterday. They sat him up in bed twice (under others power not his) and stood him up once. It was extremely painful but pain means there is feeling! He will possibly have one of the chest tubes out today but the other will stay in for a bit as there is still some draining from one lung. They are hopeful that he will be moving out of ICU today or tomorrow. They have a physical therapist who started working with him yesterday. He still has a long road ahead but things are definitely going the right way. If people ask you, since Kirk is really not a flower kind of a guy, we thought that donations instead of flowers to the Sugarloaf Ambulance and Rescue Team that saved his life would be a great thing. Let people know that donations can be made to Franklin Memorial Hospital, restricted to the Sugarloaf Ambulance and Rescue Unit, One Hospital Drive, Farmington, ME 04938 Attn: Mike Luciano (the head of the Rescue Team). I am heading up to CMMC in an hour or so with Taylor Nicole to see her mom and possibly her dad. She is doing ok at Amy's. She misses her folks and they miss her tons as well. I will let you know more tomorrow! Thanks for all the positive thoughts, they are working. Love Wendy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: response to patterns kits/note for baskets looking old Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:40:38 EST From: GrayFelix@cs.com To: davidc@iei.net Hi everyone. For the amateur weaver who is disappointed in kits, I want to brag about my very first basket (which kinda turned out-but it was my very first and the second was much better), which is the Jeremiah Basket. It comes in a kit from Royalwood (517 Woodville Rd. Mansfield, Ohio 44907,1-800-526-1630). It's a big basket with a sturdy handles (and you can even make your own-learn as you go). It's a sturdy basket, too. I want to give 3 cheers to Royalwood, too, because they were the first ones I sought when I decided to try basketry. After I received the catalog and looked through it dumbfounded, since I didn't know a thing about this, I gave them a call. They were quite helpful and upon their suggestion for a beginner basket, I bought the Jeremiah kit and was not disappointed. To this day, it is my favorite basket. I bought other kits and never had any disappointment. After a few kits, I bought their Bevy of Baskets Books. Since I still fill I am on a beginner level (loads of baskets made, but much to learn), I have found Addicted to Baskets, by Elizabeth Wheeler Clark and The basket Book by Lyn Siler helpful, too, with wonderful patterns. I keep within my budget and work with reed. I haven't tried the other weaving materials available. I do on occasion splurge to try other add-ons. For the one who wants baskets to look old and grimy, I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but Royalwood carries an antique dye. Best wishes to all of you. Georgia in WI-with unseasonable spring-like weather-the snow is gone!(um-for now) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 3 I. 110 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:44:15 EST From: Caldesigns@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net If I signed my pine needle baskets w/ a woodburner, I wouldn't have any basket left, and the paint wouldn't show. How do those of you who do pine needle baskets sign your work? How about those other coiled baskets that show no core materials? I do use a woodburner on my rib and splint baskets. I don't date my work, just give it an inventory number. (Some buyers aren't interested in "old" work.) Carol in Carlsbad :) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 3 I. 110 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:01:50 -0800 From: helen schwartz To: David Collins References: 1 My e-mail has been out for a week so I don't know if my earlier request ran or not. I will be in Taos in April for Peggy Sanders Brennana workshop. We will also be spending time in Albuquerque, Madrid (near Santa Fe) and Las Vegas (NM). Are there any "don't miss" basket venues, exhibitions etc. along the way? Helen Schwartz %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: WW's Volume 110 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:14:21 -0500 From: Ruthanne Morningstar To: davidc@iei.net Pamela Zimmerman - You're welcome. I'll check out my sources when I'm out west this year, but it won't be till October. I'll see what I can come up with. Should be fun. Valerie Miller - I thought your name sounded familiar when I looked up some of your pictures. You're attending Basket Bash 2000. Looking forward to meeting you. I too viewed Jill Choate's Basket Video. The information on Antler drilling is very thorough and helpful. Well done. My husband sometimes writes video scripts and I've helped him. There's a lot of work that goes into one. I'm looking forward to attending her Basket/Ididarod Tour next March. Anxiously awaiting details. I've attended the Sled Dog Races in the UP for several years and thoroughly enjoyed them. Was in Alaska a few years ago, it was my 50th State. Beautiful place! Question I'd like to throw out - Do you consider yourself an Artist or a Weaver/Crafts person? Why and what is your definition of either? Just curious! Basket Bash 2000 is in full swing. Anyone wanting more info, contact me. It's April 7, 8 and 9 in Mayville, Michigan in the Thumb area. Ruthanne Morningstar from Dryden, Michigan where it's beginning to look a lot like Winter! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Thank you Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:29:27 -0500 From: Gary Selvey To: davidc@iei.net Thanks to everyone who responded about picnic basket patterns. Still haven't made a decision on which one to weave. Diana in Indiana, counting the days until IBA Convention. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Hello! Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:04:10 -0600 From: Tony Stubblefield To: David Collins YES! The MO Basketweavers convention books are in the mail. I picked them up from the printer tonight after work and we stuffed, stamped and sealed all of them this evening. Carol Matteson was driving them to the airport post office as I left. You should have them by the time the next WW comes out if the post office is on the ball. I also wanted to let everyone know that 3 of my baskets are going to be in a commercial for Saint Louis University Hospital. Actually they will probably be out of focus and so small in the background that you won't be able to make them out, but it is still fun to think I might glimpse them. The commercial will be running in the St. Louis market starting in mid March. I guess that is one perk of the job when you produce commercials that you can fill the set with your own stuff. I will also have to tell my friends that it is their pictures in the picture frames too. Does Betty Curry sign her name to the baskets the you weave in class? I don't think I wouldn't take too much to that. It would kind of like having Betty Crocker come to your party and saying "Oh, by the way I made that cake" or someone from Simplicity coming up to you, pointing at your newly finished dress and saying "I sewed that". Well, I am pooped from working on the commercial all day and stuffing envelopes all night. Take care and happy weaving, Tony Stubblefield St. Louis http://www.tetranet.net/users/deanandtony/baskets.htm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Necklace display Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:08:14 -0800 From: "M. L. Ames" To: CC: "Weavers Words" Hi Lisa, I decided I couldn't stand untangling my basket necklaces any more, so I installed a display / hanger on the wall of my bathroom. I can choose something to match my outfit, and admire them all at the same time. I used a store-bought tie rack, inexpensive. This one has 36 small wooden pegs, in two rows, the rows being staggered, and about half an inch between pegs in each row, all full!! The wooden back plate is about 3 inches tall and 15inches long, half an inch deep. It works pretty well for me. Now I am looking for a way to display/store my woven bracelet collection! Hope this helps. Kay Harradine %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: NCBA Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:06:32 -0500 From: Fran Steidel To: davidc@iei.net Hi Everyone! It's March and North Carolina's convention is 2 weeks away. Hooray. I will be at the registration desk from 1 to 4 pm and I will have some red ribbon for us WW readers. Stop by, introduce yourself and take a ribbon to pin onto your shirt, above or below your nametag. Bring a pin or whatever you need to attach it. Can't wait to meet you all and weave, weave, weave. Oh-I forgot-buy, buy, buy. Fran Steidel %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 3 I. 110 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:55:40 -0500 From: "WebClothes Customer Service" To: "David Collins" References: 1 For those who don't want to get stuck with an "outdated" signed/dated basket, sign and date it at the time the customer purchases it in front of them - they get a kick out of it and you won't have an outdated piece. Susan Reed-Fanfoni: Thanks for the link! (Is it class time yet?) Finally, for those of you asking for me to share the information I received on where to get braided leather straps (I didn't forget you, just been very busy), here they are in no particular order: Baskets of Joy, www.basketsofjoy@basketsofjoy.com, 1-800-377-6097 Kathy Tessler, 217 W. Fransonian Dr., Frankenmuth, MI 48734, 517-652-6886 Brick House Basket Supply, www.brickhousebaskets.com Lynda, http://home.wirefire.com/crownest Susan, NY %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Choctaw Twill Plaiting Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:05:24 -0800 From: jane milner To: davidc@iei.net Hi All! David I'm so glad you provide this service to us weavers! Does anyone know where I can get a copy of Judith Olney's book "Choctaw Diagonal Twil Plaiting"? Thanks, Jane Milner, in sunny for the first time in weeks, Grass Valley and wondering if spring will EVER come! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Germany Basket museum Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 19:11:45 EST From: "bonnie hauser" To: davidc@iei.net Hi David, I would like to know if any has ever been to the Basket Museum in Lichtenfels, Germany or the Basket factory in Michelau, Germany. I need to make a decision if it is worth the extra 4 hours to see it. Time is so pressure and if it is not worth it I will take a cruise down the Rhine. It's rainy and cool in South Bend. Bonnie Hauser %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If for any reason you would ever like to cancel your subscription, simply send me a message with "unsubscribe" as your subject.