Join us for our next basketweaving class (August 14th, 12-4p) with local treasure, cultural story-teller, and teacher, Nancy Basket. Her classes teach you new skills while also feeding your soul.
For this class, you will learn to work with the native long-leaf pine needles to create beautiful and functional baskets. You will go home with your own basket and learn the traditional techniques to make more baskets at home too.
We’ll be learning an overcast stitch using raffia, threaded through a needle, to coil (sew) Long Leaf pine needles together in a small basket. Experience examples of other stitches and if you coil already, practice them in your own vessel. How big your basket gets depends on how quickly you get the hang of it.
She’ll also go over using other materials you can sew together, and Kudzu coiled baskets will also be shown.
About Nancy: She helped start the first basketry guild in the US in modern times, 45 years ago. She moved South in 1989 to gather pine needles and find Cherokee elders to learn from. She takes her name from a Cherokee grandmother long ago, Margaret Basket.
*Advance tickets ($75) are required to ensure enough we have enough materials - and space is limited.
*Skill-share members members have a special rate of $40
All materials will be provided.
You are welcome to come early (11am) and bring lunch to share in a potluck with Nancy beforehand.
Join us for our next basketweaving class (August 14th, 12-4p) with local treasure, cultural story-teller, and teacher, Nancy Basket. Her classes teach you new skills while also feeding your soul.
For this class, you will learn to work with the native long-leaf pine needles to create beautiful and functional baskets. You will go home with your own basket and learn the traditional techniques to make more baskets at home too.
We’ll be learning an overcast stitch using raffia, threaded through a needle, to coil (sew) Long Leaf pine needles together in a small basket. Experience examples of other stitches and if you coil already, practice them in your own vessel. How big your basket gets depends on how quickly you get the hang of it.
She’ll also go over using other materials you can sew together, and Kudzu coiled baskets will also be shown.
You are welcome to come at 11am to enjoy a group potluck lunch with Nancy.
*Advance registration is required to ensure there are enough materials for everyone (everything will be provided). Tickets for the public are $75.
About Nancy: she helped start the first basketry guild in the US in modern times, 45 years ago. She moved South in 1989 to gather pine needles and find Cherokee elders to learn from. She takes her name from a Cherokee grandmother long ago, Margaret Basket.
Join us for our next basketweaving class with local treasure, cultural story-teller, and teacher, Nancy Basket. Her classes teach you new skills while also feeding your soul.
For this class, you will learn to work with the native long-leaf pine needles to create beautiful and functional baskets. You will go home with your own basket and learn the traditional techniques to make more baskets at home too.
We’ll be learning an overcast stitch using raffia, threaded through a needle, to coil (sew) Long Leaf pine needles together in a small basket. Experience examples of other stitches and if you coil already, practice them in your own vessel. How big your basket gets depends on how quickly you get the hang of it.
She’ll also go over using other materials you can sew together, and Kudzu coiled baskets will also be shown.
*Advance registration is required to ensure there are enough materials for everyone (everything will be provided). $40 for Skillshare Members. Public pricing is $75.
You are welcome to come at 11am to enjoy a group potluck lunch with Nancy.
About Nancy: she helped start the first basketry guild in the US in modern times, 45 years ago. She moved South in 1989 to gather pine needles and find Cherokee elders to learn from. She takes her name from a Cherokee grandmother long ago, Margaret Basket.