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

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Dave,
 
I am in a job training in New Haven, CT learning to cane chairs and getting 
 paid to learn this.  I am loving it just hate the traveling in the  
winter.  This is something new for me as I am use to payhing for craft  classes.  
What a switch.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 1/23/2011 12:33:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
dandrews at visi.com writes:

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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