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A Weaver’s Wonderland

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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

One of Theresa Ohno’s beautiful baskets Read more

Kits!!

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This is my last week of teaching away from home for the year.  I have traveled across the country – north to south and east to west! I have enjoyed attending so many basket events and guild  meetings, and I really loved seeing so many of you!  But it will be good to spend a couple of months at home – I have patterns to write and baskets to weave!

And right now I have a lot of basket kits – so I have added them to the website. I will add a few more when I return from Michigan, but quantities are limited. When they are gone  – they are gone. You can find these kits in The Store. Read more

Bittersweet Baskets and Homestead Handles

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I love talking to Pat Vogler, she is always busy doing something. Tending a huge garden and canning the produce, growing and drying herbs, making soap and tending to her chickens. When I first met Pat, she also had goats: Nubians for milking, Angoras for the fiber and African Boars for meat. Today, there are no goats in the pasture, Pat and her husband John, are a little busy with their business, Bittersweet Baskets and Homestead Handles. As their website says it is ‘more than a basket shop. Bittersweet Baskets and Homestead Handles

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