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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. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ATTENTION ONLINE AUCTION USERS Make Auction Payments Thru PayPal Plus Get $5 - FAST, FREE & SECURE: https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=ka9zre%40yahoo.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Picture('s) Added To Web Page Since The Last Issue Sarah Stoddard Watts-----Basket She Wove For Basket Swap #9. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Double Wall basket, stain, Etc. Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:37:56 -0400 From: "Cynthia Ludholtz" To: I forgot and sent the email earlier and still had more I wanted to say (my brothers would say "as usual") Angelique in Silver Spring, MD: the double wall that I have woven is from Lyn Siler's Basketmaker's Baskets and was called Double Wall Cherokee Picnic Basket. The bottom is woven in two colors in a herring bone pattern then the colored reed comes up on the inside to form the inside wall and the natural comes up on the outside to form the outside wall. The picture shows it in brown and natural, I have done it in navy and natural and green and natural. They have turned out very pretty. This is one of the first baskets I made outside of classes. Wicker Woman: Thanks for the info on cattails, I may just try that sometime. Stain, now I have to add my stain story to everyone elses. The first year or two that I was weaving I picked up black walnuts and put them in panty hose and then in a 5 gallon bucket on the back deck. Let the rain do the work of making the stain. Felt guilty about leaving them outside until I found out that the rainwater was the best. I put the bucket (not knowing any better) in the basement for future use. That was in the fall, come spring I asked my stepdaughter to help me strain it, when we did in the bottom of the bucket were several mouse carcasses. Wondered why I hadn't had the usual trouble with mice that winter. We live in the woods and I feed the birds and both things create a bad mouse problem, that winter they went swimming in the indoor pool. Needless to say I don't do that anymore. That is what being a beginner without others to confer with can do to you. Thanks to everyone on the different types of stain, I have access to both walnuts and hickory nuts, probably some others if I look around. Hope to use them all this winter. Bet the mice wouldn't have come to the water if it had ammonia in it. I was checking two books on baskets that I have against the ones everyone has been talking about. The one is Earth Basketry by Osma Gallinger Tod, and the other is Basketry of the Appalachian Mountains by Sue H. Stephenson, anyone familiar with either of these? Getting late and this email has gotten longer than intended. Happy weaving to everyone Cynthia Ludholtz in Harrisonburg, VA Zenda Crafts %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: dye bath Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:24:54 -0400 From: "Mary Hooper" To: "David Collins" Angelique: Did you shake up the container of pink dye to bring the dyestuff up from the bottom? It may not have been "dead" but just resting. Mary Hooper mjhooper@mitchell.main.nc.us %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Taking stuff to workshops Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:13:44 EDT From: Papursuits@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net I leave for my first ever, travel-by-plane, basket workshop. Please share how you pack your supplies, etc. I'm also supposed to take a finished basket or two. Thanks! Lois %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Group dying Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:53:04 -0400 From: gatsby@larck.net To: davidc@iei.net Sallie, I have had a bunch of fellow basket weavers to my house for a "dying party." Everyone brought some dye, we mixed it up, did a test strip and people decided what size reed they wanted to dye. Everyone brought a pound package of a different size reed. I decided afterward that it would have been better to have everyone bring their own reed, whatever sizes they wanted to dye rather than bring just one pound. That way, you were sure to get what you wanted. Everyone brought different color dyes. We mixed some for fun too. Basically, have fun, take pictures and wear old clothes. Dot in still cool nights and warm days Maine where we hope the humidity doesn't come! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 28 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:29:15 EDT From: Linhebert@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net RE: Honeysuckle harvesting and weaving Angelique, You can harvest honeysuckle at any time of year, although fall and winter are easier due to less foliage (and less snakes and other critters!) Always harvest "woody" stock, that is, the vines that are at least one year old and have been through a winter. Any new green growth (which is usually at the end of the vine) should be cut away as it will just disintegrate if you weave with it. To prepare, pull off the leaves and loose brown bark, and simmer in a large pot on stove top for a variable amount of hours. Or on a pot on a gas grill burner, if you have one.) Depending upon how thick and woody the vines are, it takes an unpredictable amount of hours (1 to 4 from my own experience- but it really depends upon the size of vines, time of year, etc.) to become adequately flexible for weaving. Then, when you're ready to weave, the most important part is this: Remove the thin layer of almost transparent coating on the vine. Peel it off using a penknife or your fingernail (ouch) to get it started. If you don't remove this layer, it will dry out and make your basket look shaggy. It's also very, very difficult to peel and pull out the residue of this from a woven basket, so try to have nice, clean vines before you begin to weave. As you're weaving, re-soak/simmer as needed, as soon as the vines start to snap, crackle and pop again. Honeysuckle mellows from a lovely creamy color to a wonderfully rich light brown over the years and hardens up like a rock. Very durable for its diameter! I have a honeysuckle basket that I bring as an example of local natural materials when I do basket history/materials lectures and it's now nearly 20 years old and looking better than ever. I haven't spoken about weaving honeysuckle with the bark ON, and maybe someone else will mention those details. For me, it just gets to shaggy. A matter of taste. With the bark ON, however, it's quite suitable for something like a neat little birdhouse. I think that Osma Gallinger Tod's Earth Basketry book uses bark-on honeysuckle for one of her birdhouses. Have fun with it! It's always nice to have your own little patch of supplies growing out back. Linda Hebert NW Arkansas, finally cooling down to 80s this weekend, I hope V. I. Reed & Cane http://www.basketweaving.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 28 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:45:36 EDT From: BsktByBarb@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Hello Fellow Weavers, Just moved to Elkhart, Indiana, from Georgetown, Kentucky. Was happy to find the Elkhart County Basketmakers right down the street. Thanks to the Membership booklets from Indiana and Michigan, I was able to do some checking into where to find other weavers. This is my first time to write in and I would like to say that WW is a Big Help to a lot of people. I've seen questions in one issue and several answers in the next. Good work. Response about Shave-horse. Gratiot Lake Basketry carries Bob Coker's Shave-horse. I ordered one. My husband said to "go ahead". Well, it ended up in his garage. Now it is in the new polebarn waiting for all the shop equipment to get set up. He loves it. Did I mention that I ordered it for myself? Glad to see the interest. Looking forward to getting information about the next basket swap. Great way to meet people and see what everyone does. Barbara Wykoff, (back home in Indiana) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Swap Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:11:38 -0000 From: "Marianne Barnes" To: I just received the most beautiful Nantucket Fruit bowl and 3 wooden spoons from Anette Meier. The fruit bowl is 10" in diameter, made from reed and stained with a light oak over dye. The base has a wood burned star and on the bottom of the basket. Anette wood burned her initials, 2000, and weaver's word basket swap #9. What a wonderful way to remember this swap! The wooden spoons are natural with wood burning on them. Each spoon has Anette's initials on the tip end with the date 2000. The outside of the spoon part has a basket, " I (picture of a heart) Baskets, and 2000 wood burned on them. The bowl is perfectly shaped. What a clean and professional job! I emailed Anette and told her that I have a very country house and this fits perfectly. Thank you so much, Anette. I didn't receive a basket in the last swap, but this more than makes up for that disappointment! I'll try to send in a picture before too long. I sent out my basket to someone in MN this morning. You should receive it in a couple of days. Thank you Faye for a wonderful swap! I just got back from my computer class in Columbia, SC. I thought it was hot in Greenville! It was 100 degrees several days while I was there. I took a course for art teachers that was funded by a grant. I came home with software and a gateway computer for my classroom. What a deal! I am getting ready to teach a member's only class for our guild. We will be weaving on top of a gourd. So I have been busy cleaning gourds. Better go now. Marianne Barnes in very hot Greenville, SC %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Double Walled Baskets Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:07:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Maureen Bartz To: Weavers Words Angelique - A double walled basket is basically two baskets. Once you weave the inner basket, it is used as a mold for the outer basket. They are usually joined at the rim, although sometimes the spokes are bent over at the top of the inner basket and then are used for the outer basket also. What is so great about them, is that they are usually very strong and you don't have to worry about the "mechanics" of the basket, since everything is hidden between the two walls. They can also be done using special wooden bases with double slots or double holes. Kathy Tessler has a multitude of patterns for double walled baskets. I have been lucky to take some of her classes at the Michigan conventions. Helen Springer also has taught a double walled basket using a wooden base, but I do not know if she sells a pattern for it. I'm sure you could check with any of the pattern suppliers to see if they carry those patterns and the double slotted bases are also available from many suppliers. Double walled baskets are my favorite - I like the look of having the inside and outside of the basket being different - different colors, different materials, different weaves - there are just so many possibilities! Maureen in sunny but cool Greenfield Wisconsin - our natural air conditioner (Lake Michigan) is working overtime. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Basket Swap #9 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:12:33 -0600 From: "Faye Stukey" To: "David Collins" References: 1 Hi Everybody! This is just a friendly reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for sending out your swap baskets! Out of 137 participants, as of this morning, 49 of you have not notified me that your basket has been mailed! Also, please notify your both your swap partner and me when you receive your basket. There are a couple weavers that I have been trying to contact for over a week already... where weeks have gone by since your basket was sent to you... but neither your buddy nor I know if it's been received! I would like to take a moment to thank those of you who notified me that you would be away from home during periods of the swap. It helped me so much to have this information... I could pass it along to your buddy just in case they were worried about their baskets reaching you. It was an unexpected surprise to receive those emails from you... and I really appreciate your thoughtfulness! And Lisa, thank you for offering to coordinate Kids Basket Swap #1! I have had so many responses to my posting about the possibility of doing this... I don't think you'll have any problem with getting 10 weavers to sign up. If you'd like, I could send along some of the rules we use for our swaps... it would give you a good guideline to follow in coordinating a Kids Swap. Okay... enough for now! Let's all get our baskets mailed out by the deadline... Friday, July 21... there are many weavers out there anxiously awaiting their baskets! Thanks, Faye Kalispell, Montana %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 28 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:15:44 EDT From: Dllmker@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net David: I received my swap basket from Susan Waite in Paris, TN. I couldn't have asked for a better swap partner. Guess my luck is really holding out, I only hope the person I send mine to this week will also enjoy. It's going out tomorrow to someone in the (I think) Buckeye state. It's a beautiful picnic basket stained with Golden Oak. It's just what I need as I lost my old one (ugly commercial) in a flood 2 years ago. Susan included all the supplies for a great lunch - plates, cups and utensils plus a hot pad - all in blue and yellow to match the lovely sunflower pattern liner she made for the basket. Swaps are great (my 2nd and more to come). Thanks to David and Faye for this one. Jean Peterson in "cold today" SE WI Sure is a different summer! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Waxed linen "vessels" Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:26:22 -0700 From: "Brewer, Heidi" To: "'David Collins (AKA Weavers Words)'" In response to: sweetchips, AKA Shari Waxed linen is very strong in tension, but does not hold up well in compression (as it stacks up upon itself, it will crush itself). I have been successful in weaving waxed linen "vessels" with knotless netting techniques, but I weave around glass bottles or vases to support the basket. I choose a glass vessel in the shape I want the basket to be, start weaving at the bottom, then work my way up the sides to the rim. Since there are only a few loop techniques, a pattern really isn't required-use the same ones as your pouches and just surround a bottle! Change colors, ply size, loop direction--these are the things you can use to make designs! Try weaving around a small gourd-they have great shapes! Heidi Brewer-Peters hbrewer@baughent.com Lakeridge Jobsite (425) 895-0036 ext. 421 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Swap basket Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:28:41 -0500 From: Dave Plourde To: davidc@iei.net Yesterday I had that wonderful experience of driving up my driveway and seeing a large box on my front steps!!! My swap basket had arrived!! Denise Pittman from NC sent a wonderful large round basket with peach and green accents- (how did she know those were the colors in my bedroom??) and in the basket were some goodies too! There was a tall dark green hexagonal candle with "chunks" of other colors in it, and two cute memo pad holders (to hang on a wall) that had "antique" basket pictures on the tops. Very cute and I have a sneaky suspicion that Denise made everything. Talented lady! I was very fortunate to have her for a swap partner. Aren't swaps great??? When does the next one start??? I am ready! Thanks again to Faye, David, and Denise! Leslie Plourde in western WI where it feels like fall! Ahhhhh - love that cool weather! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Bits and Pieces Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:38:23 -0400 From: "John W. Dorris" To: "Weavers Words" Want to offer advice here without pushing any certain persons product but-those of you looking for a miniature shave house for your table top should take a look at the one by John McGuire. It is specially made for scarfing rims and is one of the things I just couldn't live without. I don't know how to describe what makes it different except to say that the sides are tapered at the same angle as you want the rim to so they do the angle of the scarf for you. The other end is a plain shave horse. I have one of the plain kind as well. (Actually I have one of everything known to man and two of some things.) I never saw a tool I didn't like. I got mine from Gratiot Lake but am sure others have them as well. Lois, I restrained myself better than you. I waited two weeks before I read the latest Harry Potter. Knew once I started I wouldn't get anything else done and I was right. Also on the storage of patterns, I too use three ring binders in alphabetical order. Since I not known for immediately returning items to their proper place I have a magazine box (the kind you see in libraries that are narrow with one side sloped so you can easily see what's in it. The papers stand upright not stacked on one another) for patterns that are out of place, I just put the patterns in there and when I'm in the mood I refile them. I also use this kind of box for suppliers catalogs and another for the instruction booklets for the various tools in the workshop. (No of course I don't read the instructions but occasionally my husband asks for them and is always most impressed that I know actually where they are.) You can get them at Office Max, etc. Well, guess I'd better get back to work. Billie in rainy Va. Beach %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Swap basket on it's way Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:05:25 -0400 From: constance yousey To: davidc@iei.net Someone in the Buckeye State check your mail shortly for a package wrapped in brown. Connie, in the cooler upstate NY %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Colonial Day in Tappan New York Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:49:17 -0400 From: Anette Meier To: davidc@iei.net Hi there all, Basket makers in and around North Jersey or the New York Tri-State area, the Tappanhouse Historical Society is looking for a basket maker to demonstrate and sell their wares for their Colonial Day at the DeWitte Home. Ginny McCarthy (1-845-359-1149 or 1-914-359-1149) call me last night concerning the event, but I am booked and cannot attend. The stats for the event are: Date: Saturday, September 23 rain date Sunday September 24 Time: 11am - 4pm About 1000 attendees, there are spinners and weavers, petting zoo for the kids, candle making, sheep sheerers, free food for the demonstrators, colonial camps and re-enactments... an historical day. There were many other things that Ginny had mentioned. Period dress preferred, but she gave a list of do's and don'ts for clothing to wear. You would have to ask her the particulars on this. So, if any one in the area is interested, please contact Ginny at the numbers above. The area code changed in her area so both codes are given. Well, back to weaving! Anette %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 28 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:01:26 EDT From: Caldesigns@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Just a note...Fiebings dyes comes in 27 colors. Here in California, where gourd art is very popular, we can find local sources for it...most of the time...and in most of the colors. You can also order it from Tandy. Tandy Leather They don't always have all the colors either. Carol in Carlsbad :) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Help please!!! Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:03:21 -0400 From: "Andy Ingram" To: What a frustrating weaving day--please help! Last year, I bought a beautiful round basket made on a 14-inch Williamsburg handle, by Bonnie Roberson. It is gorgeous! Anyway, today I tried to do one on a 10-inch Williamsburg handle. I was amazed at how round Bonnie's basket was, considering it was made on a Williamsburg handle. I made sure my base twining was round and filled the handle. I used 11--5/8 flat reed stakes that seemed to be sufficient to fill the bottom of the handle. I wove with 1/2 and 1/4 inch flat reed. I was careful to shape the sides with the handle---YET---my basket still looks like it got slammed in a door!!!! What can I do to keep the sides shaping correctly, so it remains round? This was so frustrating since I was making a conscious effort to shape it correctly. On top of all that, I cut a huge chunk of my knuckle with my clippers. I have officially retired for the day!! Someone save me!!! Thanks for any and all help-- Struggling in Laurinburg, NC Leigh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Storing dye Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:31:54 -0500 From: "those Kraayevelds" To: "Weavers Words" I have been storing my dye for years. Here's how: I make up a batch of any color (I usually use RIT), use it. If I have not used up all the dye, I then pour it into an empty laundry detergent bottle (I used to use milk jugs, but detergent bottles are much thicker and can endure near boiling dye being poured into them ... I am not much on waiting until things cool) Then I add about 1/4 cup of ammonia (nonsudsy). Put on the cap and store in a cool corner of the basement. Reuse by heating dye. I have reheated to use the dye up to 3 times, it seems to last as long as there is 'dye' enough in the bath for the reed to soak up. I have stored dye for as long as 8 months with absolutely no mold growth. Annette %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Nantucket Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:35:49 -0500 From: "Karen D'Angelo" To: "David Collins" Dee, I don't know if it is Oct. or Nov., but Basket Weavers on the Prairie in Wichita will be having a Nantucket workshop, taught by Mr. Reineker. It will be on a Sat. If you are interested in coming down here e-mail me for more info as I get it. The other month will be a ring basket taught by Ann Rolfe. We would love to have you come down. kdangelo@kscable.com Yesterday I received a wonderful round rib basket from Jill Boles. She used reed, leather, fabric cording and I think grape vine. She also sent me some palm inflorescence and philodendron sheaths from her back yard and seashells. The final item I'm not sure what it is, I will have to ask her. It is woven in natural and shades of red to match Dorothy's slippers since I am from Kansas. Thank you Faye for organizing the swap. Karen D'Angelo Wichita, KS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Swap basket! Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:28:33 -0400 From: "Sarah Stoddard Watts" To: "David Collins" , "Faye Stukey" I just had to let everyone know that I received a wonderful swap basket from Shirley Adamczak in Minnesota. It is an exquisite square-to-round which she writes is called "X's, Bows, and Arrows." Her craftsmanship is remarkable, and I find it inspirational! It's at the very top of my basket tree, and I've used it at my dinner table already. Thank you Shirley! Sarah Watts in Savannah, GA where it was over 100 degrees today, and my job takes me outdoors - whew! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 28 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:28:35 EDT From: DeeGrin@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Hi David, and fellow weavers. Well, the organized weavers got to me and for two days and two evenings I TRIED to get organized. I have enough #2 & #3 round coiled and put into zip lock bags to last me the next year, now no room to store them. After the two days of intensive organizing my husband came into our family room which I have completely taken over and tripped over my organization and told me I needed to get it organized!! I was weaving a fishing creel for him and remembered about 15 years ago I bought a wooden top for one in Winston Salem at the Caning shop that I have never used, tried to find it, but alas, and I know I just saw it about a month ago. He will have to make a top himself. I use two wooden basket trees that my husband made for me, one to hang my handles on and one to hang my reed on while I am weaving. Ones is collapsible so I can use it at craft fairs. The organization bug also hit me so bad I spent all day cleaning our bedroom, from top to under the beds. Glad to hear so many others weavers hate cleaning as much as I do. Ended up with an aching back! I use to get in these moods once a month but now that I'm well into menopause it only happens occasionally. I have had walnuts soaking in 5 gal plastic pails with lids for three years now. Have never used ammonia and after the first few months have never had a problem with the funny odor. Maybe the Florida heat kills all that. Sometimes I find the tiny little green frogs in there and they keep the scum off. Last fall my husband collected walnuts for me while we were in VA. and I left them in the plastic bags from the grocery store and forgot all about them in another one of the pails with the lid. They were green at the time. When I checked them two weeks ago, the plastic bags had disintegrated and they were nice and mucky. I added some to my older buckets, which were not getting weak. Have planned on straining all of them, but never get around to it. So I just dunk them and the next day take a "fuller" brush and toothbrush and brush all the pieces off and my customers all like the natural dye. Sorry, I rambled so, my husband has been out in the barn working on small key ring handles for me and hasn't fussed about me being on the computer for so long. Dee in hot and muggy Fl. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: First WW Kid's Swap Rules Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:38:00 -0500 From: Chris Carstens To: davidc@iei.net Hi Everyone, I thought it would be a good idea to try this swap before the school year begins, so.... Here are the rules for the first Weaver's Words Kid's Basket Swap: 1. Participants must be relatives of Weaver's Words members (such as children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, etc.) 2. Ages 8-18 may participate (I will try to set up swap buddies who are relatively close in age, if possible) 3. The basket must be woven BY THE CHILD, with assistance if needed. 4. Names of child participants will not be posted on Weavers Words. They will be posted on private email only. 5. In order to sign up, you must send me the following information: name, address, email address, age, and any interests/hobbies you may have. 6. You may sign up for the swap between now and July 31st. I will send you the name of your swap partner by August 1st. Baskets are to be mailed to your swap partner by September 2nd. 7. Child should notify the swap partner by email or snail mail when they receive their basket. 8. The adult WW member should notify Lisa Carstens, the swap coordinator, when the basket their child made has been sent out and again when their child has received a basket. Please send your information to Lisa Carstens, email I look forward to hearing from you! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 26 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:55:59 -0500 From: Roberta Comstock To: David Collins "Weavers Words" Vol. 4 Iss. 26 Kay Janke - When I reuse dyes, I don't expect the color to be nearly as intense. After all, the first things I dyes with them have used up much of the color. I some time's rejuvenate a bath by adding a little more of the same color of dye to it. And I do heat it up. I once tried to completely exhaust a bath of black rit, hoping to get a range of grays. As the color became less black, I actually got blues instead of grays, The final basket I dyed in that one came out a lovely pale work-shirt blue. I also mix colors when I'm using up leftovers. Serendipity! Mona Campbell - I've never even seen "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." We don't watch much TV. A few dramas, cartoons & sitcoms that we watch at leisure (zapping out all the commercials with the fast forward button). When we do watch random TV we usually end up on the History channel or Discover. I don't really know enough about any of the game show to try to get on them. Linda Clifton - Hand split Oak is rarely available to purchase for weaving. The best way to try it is to take a class from someone who teaches oak baskets. Making the splits is a lot of hard work, and they are best used fresh. Oak tends to harden as it cures and become less flexible. Aloha, Lois! - I'm up to my ears in the newest Harry Potter book now. Bert Comstock Lauderdale in cooler, but still muggy, Independence, MO. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Do you know this person? Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:28:37 -0400 From: "Nancy Carlson" To: I raised this question a couple of weeks ago, however it was at the end of a rather long dialogue. Does anyone know a weaver by the name of Stephen Kostyshyn? Nancy in Michigan - where is SUMMER? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Basket Shop Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:33:18 -0400 From: "Char Ciammaichella" To: Hello All, I have not been around much lately and have been busy but I do need some advice. I will be attending the open weave at the Basket Shop in New Hampshire in August. Will be driving from Cleveland and was wondering about places to stop and visit on the way. Will have Sat. and Sunday to get there so I can make some detours. Would love info from anyone who has attended these weaves. Please email me as I still cannot get Weaver's Words even after changing from AOL. I do try to read back issues to stay up on all basket news. Charweave@adelphia.net. Winter Weave brochures are almost ready to go to the printers so we hope to get them out by the first of Sept. Anyone needing info can email me. Thanks All Char In warm, sunny Ohio where we're still waiting for the dog days of summer to arrive! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: swap basket sent Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:25:23 PDT From: "shirley albright" To: davidc@iei.net This is to let someone in a Midwestern state that starts with a vowel know: her basket is on the way! Finally! Not quite the last moment, but darn close! Whew! I'm looking forward to a weekend weaving and camping in Big Sur with fellow primitive skills enthusiasts. This will be a primitive camp: no water, showers or biffies; everything has to be packed in (and out). Maybe I'll finally get the knack of throwing my atlatl and slinging my sling. (Don't worry animal lovers, the only way I could hit anything is if I aim 180 degrees in the other direction. The only thing I've hit so far is my instructor) I'm planning on making a big burden basket and a bullrush hat. This campout is also going to be my husband and my 25th anniversary celebration. We had hoped to go to Nova Scotia (a lifelong dream of mine) but can't make it this year. I'll think of you all as I sit on my lauhala mat and weave. Shirley, excited and higher than a kite in chilly but sunny Monterey %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 17 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:19:03 -0700 From: "Lisha Kimball" To: "David Collins" I've been trying to catch up on all these weavers' words. What a job when you get behind. One note that I read about illegal antler baskets is an interesting topic. It use to worry me too along with people at the fairs crying about killing that poor banbi!! Oh, please. Get in the real world duffus!!! So you take the time to explain to them that they fall off anyway and that at least your a creative person turning these useless drops into something so cool. I guess their as bad as me worrying about dumping dye, huh?? But if you are selling these baskets, just tell people that you are charging them for the basket and that the antler is a GIFT!! And get on with life...boy, I must be in a cranky mood today. Its got to be all these rainy days in NH that's getting to me lately I also wanted to share my storage ideas with you. I went to an apple orchard and bought many old apple boxes, cheap! My husband cut a slot in them, big enough to put your hand into it and we joined them together as a unit of 3's. I placed them around the edges of my shop so they will contain one size of a colored reed. For my customers at my shop, I dye lots of colored reed, bag 1 piece of it and sell it from .45cents a piece to $1.00 a piece. This way they don't have to buy coils of reed and they get more of a selection of material. It's all stored in a zip lock bag in the boxes and it keeps everything very neat. When we move into the new shop this fall I think that I'm going to get more apple boxes and stack them in my office room to hold anything imaginable. To keep the room neat. Wow! What a web we weave. Lisha Kimball Webster, NH weavenet.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 28 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:40:07 -0700 From: Bobbie & Rudy To: David Collins References: 1 Subject: Travel Fun to Weave and More! I have to say that this is a new experience for me...I've been receiving Weaver's Words but never sent. I have been weaving baskets for several years.... my husband and I like to travel......we especially like Mexico so when a friend decided to teach some different weaving techniques at a place on the Yucatan, we thought the trip would combine a lot of interests. Not only did we weave under the palms with wonderful people but we also learned something of the Mayan culture meeting local people and trekking the jungle for vines with which to weave. My friend's name is Rita Erwin. If this sounds like an intriguing idea, she has a website complete with photos. P. S. Do you all know that Reno has a great group of weaver's in a group of 190 members called THE GREAT BASIN BASKETMAKERS. If you are coming through on the first or third Thursday, you will find us at The Sierra Arts Center. Bobbie Talso, GBB, Reno, Nevada %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Swap Basket Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:00:36 -0600 From: "Chrystal L. Higgins" To: davidc@iei.net As usual, I am sending my swap basket out on the last day of the deadline! My basket is heading to "the land of the free" in the state of Michigan. Some special lady should be on the lookout for a big brown truck! Chrystal Higgins Kalispell, Montana, where it is 91 degrees today - much too hot for this ole' lady! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 28 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:42:33 EDT From: Sandybsk@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Just wanted to let everyone know that the basket socks are in. We should get them on the web site soon but for those of you that can't wait they are a fully-cushioned, ribbed, short crew sock with a basket on each side of the ankle - sell for $6.50. Lots of other new items, just put on the web site and more to come. Sandy Drexler www.bewley.net/mscreations %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: WW Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:44:37 -0400 From: "Jayna Glemby" To: "David Collins" Does anyone know if basket related automobile license plates are available? Would love one that said BASKET CASE and had a graphic of a basket on it. I bet it would be a big seller, at least to those of us addicted to weaving. Just wondering. Jayna in central Massachusetts where it is delightful and cool...but too soon, still need plenty of swimming weather! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If for any reason you would ever like to cancel your subscription, simply send me a message with "unsubscribe" as your subject.