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, we’ll be learning a basic 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).
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, we’ll be learning a basic 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).
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.