[Nfb-krafters-korner] paper weaving?

Tue Sep 22 02:22:49 UTC 2009

Raffia is dried grasses, I think, that you can find in natural and muted 
shades of colors.  A lot of people use it to bundle together and make bows 
for fall wreaths.  We also use it here for hair and a bushy mustache for our 
scarecrow.  All craft stores usually carry it.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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> what is raffia?
> --l
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:40 PM
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> Oh yes, I've done other textures to the baskets once they are done.  I'd
> really like to do a corn shuck basket and use a bit of raffia to secure it
> as I go.  That would add natural texture and softer colors as well.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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>> Hello Susan --
>> Your ribbon idea sounds interesting.  Let us know how it turns out.  I
>> wonder if you could use more than one color using ribbon and create a
>> design.
>> Question: Do you sew patterns into your coil backets? My one and only
>> coiled
>> basket was made of reeds for the core and 2 colors of yarn for the 
>> sewing.
>> I put an elaborate squash blossom design in the basket that I partly
>> copied
>> from a Hopi squash blossom pattern in a book, but added some elements to
>> the
>> design to make it unique.
>> It turned out well except I wish it would hold a better shape. You have 
>> to
>> be careful when sewing to pull the cord just the right amount to create
>> the
>> curve of the basket.
>> I never did another coil basket after that...
>> Where did all my patience go???
>> Happy krafting.
>> --le
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 8:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] paper weaving?
>>
>>
>> Hi Joyce,
>>
>> The reason I am going to change for this basket is that when I twisted up
>> my
>> newspapers for the core, I did not roll the paper tight enough so that
>> when
>> I twisted them, instead of keeping a round form they wanted to go flat.
>> When you are then trying to wrap your strips around your core, this shape
>> does not allow your wrapping papers to lay flat around the core and will
>> cause gaps where the newsprint will show between your wrapping paper.  I
>> didn't feel like scrounging up more news paper since we don't get the
>> paper
>> ourselves.  Don't get me wrong, I still prefer newsprint because you can
>> get
>> a longer strip for your core, but I didn't want to go through that 
>> process
>> again.  In addition, since I had never tried a different paper for the
>> core
>> before, there's no time like the present to try new things.  LOL!
>>
>> I also seem to have an idea to do a basket in ribbon.  Use the softer
>> clothes line cord and I have some rather wide Christmas green and red
>> ribbon
>> that I can at least cut in half for the wrap.  Who knows what may happen
>> between now and Christmas.
>>
>> Right now I'm working on a knitted stole for the Red Cross's Webb of 
>> Hope.
>> It is going to be red with a red or white collar, knitted on size 10-1/2
>> kneedles, using garter and seed stitches.  I have another one, lavinder
>> and
>> white on one of my round looms that I am going to take off before our 
>> next
>> meeting and put a solid lavinder collar on that one.
>>
>> Susan
>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
>> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] paper weaving?
>>
>>
>>> Susan,
>>>
>>> Why are you changing to the legal size paper?  I have not yet tried 
>>> this
>>> basket, but wondering what your reason was.
>>>
>>> Joyce
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