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| Heritage Basketry Guild June 2008 Newsletter. |
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| Next meeting Date: June 2, 2008 June Weaving Project: Ebony Spiral Bowl by C. White Refreshments provided by: Susan Keferl, Peggy West, and Darlene Collins |
| Secretary Notes from the May 5, 2008 Guild Meeting The registration numbers are down for the Mid-Summer Weave, if you have not registered yet, please do so. Call Sally Meyer for registration information at 291-3899. The next Mid-Summer Weave committee meeting is June 7, 1:30pm at the Webster Street Market in Downtown Dayton. Lorry Foucht is still looking for help for the food committee. If you can only do a couple of hours, she would love to have your help. Please let her know at 269-1778. All guild members are invited to participate in St. Anne's Hill Garden and Art Tour 2008, Saturday June 21, 2008 10am - 4pm. This is a free show so get busy making those baskets or going through your collection to see if there is anything you want to sell. Come out and just visit us if you like, you know the saying, "the more the merrier." Guild members, who want to sell their wares, must be willing to help set up, take down, or help sell baskets. Call Darlene Collins if you are wish to participate at 675-3209. There will be a SWAP-MEET held at the August guild meeting. This is in addition to the basket ornaments we will be making for the Sugar Plum Tree that evening. Bring any basket reed, tie ons, handles, bases, or other basket related items you would like to trade for other items from other members. The April Mystery member was Vicki Nicolaci and the May mystery member was Kathy Spitler. Congratulations ladies. They each receive a gas card. Members wove Christmas Ornaments for the MSW raffle at the meeting. Please bring your finished ornaments to the June meeting. .....Carol White |
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| Highlights of the May 5, meeting. These are pictures of some ornaments that were made for the MSW raffle. Please bring your woven ornament to the June guild meeting. |
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| JUNE MYSTERY MEMBER We have a member with "almost" a sterling personality. She's been married for 20 years and has 2 children. She claims the funniest thing that ever happened was while on a visit to see her son in Japan. She went to an ONSON and fell in! Now she doesn't tell me exactly what an ONSON is however I think most of us might guess! Walt Disney would be the person she would most love to meet. She says her daughter was born on the same day as his birthday and she's a Disney nut! She would have loved to live in the late 1940's or early 50's and would most love to meet her uncle BG who died during WWII on a death march. Our Guess Who favors cats. She finishes this statement, "Baskets are like people..............'they tend to come unraveled as time goes by.' " Politics must not be something she enjoys as she says the most unusual thing that ever happened to her was throwing up while visiting the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. Who do you think this is? Give us your answer at the June meeting. Karen Douglass…… |
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| June Weaving Project EBONY SPIRAL BOWL…taught by Carol White This bowl has a wooden 4 ½” base and is woven with natural and dyed #2 round reed. If you wish to bring your own materials you will need; 4 ½” wooden base ($3.00) #2 round reed, natural and another color. 3/8” flat oval for rimming the outside and inside of the bowl. ¼” flat oval for stakes; cut 35 stakes 8” long. Black waxed linen or any color of your choice for lashing. Pattern $1.00 The cost of a kit with pattern is $10.00. If you wish to buy a kit or a just a pattern or wooden base, please email carolwhite43@woh.rr.com or call 848-4505 by May 30 to reserve one just for you. |
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| Did you Know?????? Carleen Dobie’s grandson is going back to Iraq in August for the 3rd time. Remember to keep Carleen’s grandson and all the troops in our prayers. Sue O’Neal will soon be returning to work after healing from rotator cup surgery. She has physical therapy for the next few months. Carolyn Belczk’s daughter will graduate from Law school this May. Carolyn will be going to Pennsylvania to be present for this special occasion. Congratulations mom and daughter. Julie Kleinrath will teach at Silver City in Branson, Mo. the week-end of 17th of May. She will teach 4 baskets. Good luck, Julie. Karen Douglass’s daughter bought her first house near Wilmington, Oh. where she is working. Karen and her husband drove to New Jersey for a wedding last weekend, and were wined and dined. Karen also has been doing a lot of yard work. Barb Schimming’s son in-law is graduating soon from Northern Kentucky University. Elaine Puckett aka “pumper” was in Syracuse, NY helping her son move for his first job after graduation. Ask her how she got the nickname, “ pumper.” Margie Hayes (513-683-4131) wants people to contact her or Kathy Spitler (513-271-2112) if they are making a donation to the MSW raffle. Your donation is needed. Kathy Spitler with other Cincinnati guild members participated in the Appalation Festival held at the old Coney Island in Cincinnati on Mother’s Day weekend. Darlene Collins has a new addition to the family; a rescue dog who is a 3 year-old Corgi. She has had the dog for 2 weeks and so far all are doing fine. Bernie and Jean Jines are off to Oklahoma the see their granddaughter graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in musical theater. They will be with family over Mother’s day weekend. Libby Glade and her husband went to California and visited the Hurst Castle. She recommends this sight to everyone. Also sadly, she says her 19 ½ year-old cat, “Ruskie” died in her husbands arms. Sorry Libby. Peggy West has now moved to their new home in Springboro. She will notify us of her new address. Anyone interested in buying her previous home? Shirley Robinson and the Mad River Basket Weavers are doing a craft show on Burkhart Rd on May 17th. They will be selling Baskets and yard items. For more information contact Shirley at 602-4218 Edarose Wolf’s 18 year-old neice, who is mildly autistic, makes baskets and Edarosesays all her teachers fight over her baskets. I’m sure she had great teachers! We send our thoughts and prayers to Sharon Dempsey and her family whose brother passed away recently. |
| Happy June Birthday to; Cindy Holland June 7 Sharon Dempsey June 10 Susan Keferl June 16 Bonnie Krist June 19 Barbara Schimming June 21 Elaine Puckett June 22 Jenny Jones June 26 Sally Meyer June 30 |
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| Twinings From the Prez Mid Summer Weave is all most here. We need raffle items, little baskets for the tree and YOU. Every year this has been a great event please come and joins us this year. Our first show is going to be June 21 at St. Anne's Hill. Our Treasurer has worked very hard in getting everything ready for us to do shows. So lets have a good showing and make her proud and you can make a little money in the deal. Happy weaving, Darlene Collins |
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| WEAVING OPPORTUNITIES……. Weave in the Park will be Saturday May 24 from 9 AM until you’re ready to leave. Barb Schimming has designed a beautiful basket from one she spotted in an antique store. It’s now been kid tested and weaver approved and is called Aunt Lydia’s Flower Basket. As before, our event will be at Taylorsville Reserve off Brown School Road in Vandalia. We have the Red Fox Run Lodge again so there’s water close, restroom facilities within walking distance, plenty of space in which to weave, plenty of laughter and just pray for plenty of sunshine! Barb will offer kits to those of you who wish to buy one for $40.00 which includes all the reed and pattern. You may also buy the pattern for $4.00 and bring your own reed. I will send requirements for the necessary reed in April. This will also be pot luck, so bring your favorite picnic item as I’ll provide hot dogs and buns and we’ll grill those and dine on what everyone else brings. You don’t have to weave this basket! You can weave, sew, quilt, coil, bead, or just sit and kibitz. Do whatever you’d like but the fun is our gathering and enjoying spring, should it decide to eventually join us! I would like to know how many to plan on so I have plenty of dogs and buns! This is a beautiful location, last time, we even watched deer as they were watching us! So please plan to attend and enjoy a day of fun in the park! If you already know you want a kit and want to be there, email Barb at barbschimming@roadrunner.com . Let me know if you want to be there at dokamii@ameritech.net. We’ll have a fall adventure in the park as well, slated for Sept. 27th. We’ve not decided on a basket yet, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know! We’ll need time to contact the originator of the pattern, get her permission to weave this and buy the correct number of patterns, then I’ll get you the requirements needed for reed….Karen Douglass Summer Weave-In Greenville, SC June 6-8 The Upper South Carolina Basketmakers Guild invites you to our summer convention, Weave-In, 2008 at The Holiday Inn, Greenville, South Carolina. Join us June 6,7,8, June 27-29, 2008 – Willowe’s Basketry Weaving Seminar. Our teachers will be Venie Hinson, Gail Hutchinson, Sue Twombly, Tom Holtkamp, Karen Griffith, Sherian Cody and Pam Talsky. Look for more information about the seminar at www.willowes.com or call 317-462-2026. or call 317-462-2026. The Kentucky Basket Association Convention 2008 will be held July 9, 10, and 11 in Corbin, Kentucky. www.thekentuckybasketassociation.org Bluegrass Area Basketmakers Seminar – Jabez, Kentucky June 10 -14 Visit the website for more information http://www.ca.uky.edu/agcollege/4h/klc/events/index.htm July 26th and 27th we will “Weave ‘em Up and Lash ‘em Out” in Dayton, Ohio! The Heritage Basketry Guild will be hosting our Eighth Annual "Mid Summer Weave". Classes will offer a variety of techniques and materials. The weave is known for its great raffles and exceptional Teachers’ Marketplace. We take pride in our selection of experienced instructors and quality classes. |
| Wanted........ Used Basket Patterns for MSW raffle. I am making a notebook of basket patterns for a raffle item at MSW. If you have a pattern that you are not going to use again, consider donating your pattern to be a part of this raffle item. Contact Carol White 848-4505 if you can help. Thanks! Kitchen Volunteers during MSW. Lorry Foucht is charge of food this year for MSW and all she wants is a couple hours of your time. Call Lorry at 269-1778 if you will help! Raffle items for MSW Raffle Contact Margie Hayes, Kathy Spitler , Julie kleinrath or Susan Keferl if you can help. |
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| Project Calendar for 2008 May 5 Mini basket Ornaments for Raffle tree May 24 Weave in the Park Victorian Basket – Barb Schimming June 2 Ebony Spiral Bowl – Carol White July 7 Basket by Julie Kleinrath August 4 Mini Ornaments for Sugar Plum tree and Swap Meet September 8 Snowman Basket- Glenna Howland Sept 27 Weave in the Park Planning in progress October 6 Sleigh Basket- Ginger Lindamood November 3 : Chair Canning Trivet- Jennie Dranschak Dec 1, Christmas party and basket exchange |
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| The Heritage Basketry Guild meets the first Monday of every month unless otherwise stated. We meet at the Community United Methodist Church 339 Meyer Ave. Riverside, Ohio. Meeting begins at 6:30pm with a brief business meeting at 7:00pm. Visitors welcome, members expected. Board Members: Darlene Collins-President darlenecollins@hughes.net Barbara Schimming- Vice President Barbschimming@roadrunner.com Carol White-Acting Secretary and Newsletter Editor carolwhite43@woh.rr.com Cindy Holland-Treasurer wahoorule@yahoo.com Karen Douglass-Membership dokami@ameritech.net Julie Kleinrath-Teacher Liaison julie@wovendesigns.com Julie Kleinrath and Susan Keferl - MSW Chair skeferl@woh.rr.com |