After months and months of waiting, Central Pennsylvania Basket Weavers Guild hosted the 20th Annual Weaving Odyssey weekend. Over a hundred participants, including 20 first time attendees, enjoyed four days of fun, basket weaving and fellowship. Every possible effort was in place to insure a safe environment for everyone.
Dianne Glexiner lead the Thursday evening workshop. I wove a colorful rectangle basket with triple twining and a twill weave. The colorful twined band is similar to the Flying Geese pattern used by quilters.
Friday I joined Anne Bowers as she taught us a basket she calls "Fat Bottomed Girl". The basket utilizes wide, double spokes in its construction an both round and flat oval weavers to achieve its curvaceous shape. The vessel is topped with a leather handle.
If you want to learn to weave a successful cathead base take a class with Diane Gleixner. Her technique will insure the basket is shaped with even, distinct points of a cathead. Her basket called Fancy Cat included triple twining, paired triple twining and adding overlays.
I ended my weekend making a whimsical, multicolored vessel accented with sprigs of contorted willow. Anne Bowers calls this basket Wild Hair.
Four baskets in four days! What could be better.
For more information about CPBWG go to :
www.centralpabasketguild.com
