[Nfb-krafters-korner] Basket Class who would be interested?

[David Andrews]

We used to make these kinds of baskets, back at the Virginia School 
for the Blind, in the early 1960's.  Later on they moved up to chair 
caneing, but I left the school prior to that.

Talk about stereotypes!

Dave

At 01:46 PM 1/23/2011, you wrote:
>"The hard bottomed baskets are the simplest to learn.  The circular
>bottoms
>already have the holes drilled in them and then you just soke the  reeds,
>cut
>to a specific length, incert reeds into holes and take the  extended
>portion
>of the reeds and bending them sidewase, each reed end will  lock the next
>reed end flat under the next reed and so on.  These reeds  now become your
>uprights for the basket sides.  You continue soaking  your reeds and
>weaving
>them in and out of your upright reeds until you reach  the height you want.
>Then you have to soak the top of your basket so your  upright reeds become
>flexable again and then you can bend them over and  weave them into the top
>of your basket which wil give it the finished  top.
>
>Susan"
>
>
>As Susan wrote above this is a simple basket to do.  Who would be
>interested in taking a class in this?  If we get enough people 
>interested I  will
>get the supplies and we can all work on the same basket.  Susan would  you
>help co-teach this class with me?
>
>Joyce  Kane
>_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>Blindhands at AOL.com