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Camp Tuck

September 13, 2017/0 Comments/in New Baskets, Out and About with Basket Weavers /by Annetta K

Now cutting and tucking may not be your favorite part of weaving a basket, but you really should put ‘Camp Tuck’ on your weaving event bucket list.  Land of Lincoln Basketweavers Association (LLBWA) hosts ‘Camp Tuck’ each September in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois.

  

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A Weaver’s Wonderland

October 26, 2016/0 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events /by Annetta K

AMB 2016

 

I just got home from the Association of Michigan Basketmakers Annual Conference in Lansing, Michigan.  This year’s event, A Weaver’s Wonderland, was inspired by Alice in Wonderland – complete with a mad tea party!  I taught five classes, had great students and found time to enjoy the exhibit hall, luncheons, vendors and friends.

Last week I posted a photo of my basket, Beachcomber, which was raffled off at the convention. I have had several positive comments on that piece, but I wish you could have seen all the beautiful pieces they raffled off. Five other attending teachers had pieces in the raffle, however the real stars of the raffle were two pieces from Fred Ely’s collection:

AMB 2016

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Heritage Weavers’ 2016 Fall Event

August 31, 2016/2 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events /by Annetta K

The Heritage Weavers Fall Event takes place in Dayton, Ohio. This annual event started years ago as Mid Summer Weave; over the years, things changed and it moved to September and became a fall event. This year, the event moved to a brand new location, the Bergamo Center, and to the last weekend of August – just on the edge of the change of seasons.

The Bergamo Center provided great weaving rooms, as well as lodging and meals. The building is a large square with a tranquil central courtyard and the grounds are beautiful. I think the Heritage Weaver’s have found their retreat home!!

It was a great retreat – here’s a little photo journal of the weekend:

Heritage Weavers Fall Event 2016
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Weave the World!

August 10, 2016/2 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events /by Annetta K

MBG 2016

 

August 4-7, 2016 the Missouri Basketweavers Guild hosted their 25th convention, Weave the World, in St Louis, Missouri. Co-chairs Leanne Nielsen and Edeltraud Romvai had all kinds of fun planned for the weekend, from the teacher and vendor reception featuring an international smorgasbord to passports and basket bingo.

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Stowe Basket Fesitval

June 15, 2016/0 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events /by Annetta K

I just got home from ‘Celebrating 25 years of Weaving Friendships’ at the  Stowe Basketry Festival. It was wonderful and worth every mile!  Thank you Merry Vigneau, the staff at the Round Hearth, and all of you who came to teach classes or to take them.  I’ll keep the words to a minimum and share a ‘few’ pictures:

Stowe 2016

The Round Hearth, where we ate and slept and visited. Read more

Studio Notes

May 18, 2016/0 Comments/in In the Studio /by Annetta K

Clean!Studio - clean!

Yes, that is just a picture of the floor.  The floor in my studio.  Please note that it is clean.  It is reed free. I even dusted!  I actually just stood here and took it all in – it looks kind of impressive. This week our children come home and this will become living space – this week it won’t be reed strewn, but it may be covered in craft supplies and toys and little bodies. It will be a special kind of messy 🙂 Read more

Stateline Friends Weaving Retreat 2016!

April 20, 2016/4 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events /by Annetta K

Each April, Pam Feix, Debbie Cates and the Whitewater Basket Guild in Richmond, Indiana host a spectacular three day basket weaving event, Stateline Friends Weaving Retreat. Four hundred people (basket weavers, basket teachers and vendors) gather together to weave baskets,  learn new weaving techniques, stock up on basket kits and supplies, enjoy each others company, catch up with old friends and make ones. SFWR 2016

That’s right, Eat, Sleep Weave about sums it up.  🙂 Read more

Basket Class with Dianne Gleixner

April 6, 2016/0 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events, Out and About with Basket Weavers /by Annetta K

Dianne Gleixner works out of her studio in Brookfield, Wisconsin.  She has regularly scheduled basket classes at her studio and she also teaches at basket guilds and basket weaving events around the country. A few weeks ago Dianne Gleixner came to teach our basket guild.

Class with Dianne Gleixner

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Dream Weavers – the 2016 NCBA Convention!

March 23, 2016/0 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events /by Annetta K

Thank you to Cathy and all the volunteers who made the Dream Weavers Convention such a success! So good to see old friends, make a few new ones and watch so many amazing basket classes in action. Thank you to each one of you who took a class with me or stopped by my table at market place!  I appreciate each one of you.

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The rambling thoughts of a basket teacher

February 10, 2016/0 Comments/in In the Studio /by Annetta K

warning – this post will be as scattered and messy as my studio 

My studio is a mess, this is what awaited me this morning…the studioand that’s just one corner. This will be another week of cutting and counting and bundling and packing basket kits – three thousand or so stakes, pounds and pounds of round reed, and thousands of yards of cane – by the end of the week I should have several hundred kits ready for my March and April basket classes. Read more

The Country Seat

January 5, 2016/0 Comments/in Out and About with Basket Weavers, Resources for Basket Weaving /by Annetta K

I am so excited that Angie Longenecker Wagner from The Country Seat, Inc. agreed to let me interview her. This family business in Kempton, Pennsylvania was established in 1975 by Angie’s mother, Donna Longenecker, as a seat weaving company. It quickly became a supply store for seat weavers and basket weavers.The Country Seat Read more

Basket Cruisin’

October 22, 2015/0 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events /by Annetta K

 

Weaving at Sea …IMG_0927

It all started when one of Sandy Bulgrin’s basket weaving students told her she had signed up to go on a knitting cruise.  Sandy responded “But – Lucille, you don’t knit?”  “I know … why isn’t there a basket weaving cruise?” Read more

Tools for Basket Weaving

October 7, 2015/5 Comments/in Tools for Weaving Baskets /by Annetta K

I’m packing for next week’s Association of Michigan Basketmaker’s annual convention. It feels like I just unpacked – last week I was in Minnesota. Packing

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Basket Weaving Events

August 14, 2015/0 Comments/in Basket Weaving Events /by Annetta K

I am working on a calendar of basket events.

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