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

[Eleni Vamvakari]

Ooh cool!  Did you guys use any kinds of books or was it all hands-on?
 I just checked my list of blind schools and there are two listed in
Virginia.  One is Hampton and the other in Staunton.  The page of the
first didn't work when I tried it but the second does.  They didn't
mention basket weaving.  This is what I mean about networking.  I sent
letters only to those which mentioned a history of such classes.
Perhaps, I should send them to more places.  But now that we might be
doing classes here, I may not need to do so.  In any case, count me in
as being very much interested.

All the best,
Eleni

On 1/23/11, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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