Class Descriptions

Class #1 – Pegasus – SOLD OUT

Pegasus begins with a gently rounded shape.

Class #2 – Short Ash Bark Quiver

This scored and folded one piece ash bark basket is a worldwide Indigenous container still in use today.

Class #3 – Mad Weave Makes You Crazy Mat (2 Days) – 2 SPOTS LEFT

Stretch your brain learning Madweave. Madweave is woven in three directions using a 2 – 1 twill.

Class #4 – Back and Forth (2 Days)

This striking paper basket is woven from 140lb watercolor paper painted with acrylics and cut into strips with a pasta maker

Class #5 – Pagoda

This lidded Pagoda basket features a 5” woven Cathead base. The basket and lid are accented with grey reed, flat silver wire, and 2 silver hoops serving as handles on the basket.

Class #6 – Twill with Plaited Rim

This basket is woven on an 8-inch base.

Class #7 – Elm Bark and Black Ash Wall Basket

In this class, the teacher will be bringing harvested elm bark strips for you to learn how to clean, split, and cut weavers for your rectangular basket.

Class #8 – Flame Tree Seed Pod

Weavers must be experienced in maintaining a very tight spiral stitch and keeping the gauge consistently full, making strong floating coils.

Class #9 – Merry Blues

This is a fun basket to weave for a gift basket or the holidays. Linda will have the spokes pre-glued in the base prior to class.

Class #10 – Willow Backpack (2 Days)

This full-size backpack is made of unpeeled willow, starting with a large oval split stick base.

Class #11 – 5” Round Nantucket

Construct a 5” round Nantucket basket over a class mold using a cherry base, solid rim and handle.

Class #12 – Long Ash Harvesting Container

This scored and folded one-piece ash bark basket is a worldwide Indigenous container still in use today.

Class #13 – Simply Summer

This basket makes a nifty small tote or purse. Using a double-slotted oak wooden base, we will insert stakes and weave a simple inner basket of dyed 3/8 FF reed.

Class #14 – New Wave Tote

This sturdy, functional slim tote starts with natural flat reed spokes inserted into a racetrack base.

Class #15 – Vertigo

Vertigo is woven on a laser-engraved cherry base. A Fibonacci twill weaves up the side of the basket.

Class #16 – Duets and Crosses – 2 SPOTS LEFT

Try your hand at a new technique- triple chase weave. After weaving a checker weave bottom with a flat reed, students will weave the sides of this basket with triple chase weave.

Class #17 – Pine Needle Honey Pot (2 Days)

Participants will be provided a wooden bowl, natural long-leaf pine needles, and waxed Jupean thread to make the basket.

Class #18 – Junior Adirondack Pack Basket

Junior is a small decorative version of a traditional Adirondack Pack basket.

Class #19 – 10-inch Round Tray

This 10” round tray is woven over a class mold using complete cherry construction and cane weavers.

Class #20 – Cimmaron – SOLD OUT

CIMARRON is woven with braid weave using both flat oval and double round reed in three different colors, creating a vertical color pattern.

Class #21 – Ash Bark Mokuk with Applique

A Mokok is a Northeast Woodland Native American-style container made of bark stitched with spruce roots.

Class #22 – Madweave Mat or Madweave Triangle (2 Days)

Learn to turn corners with Madweave as you create a triangular basket

Class #23 – Short Paper Cathead Paint and Weave

Weave this small cathead from paper, which you will paint and cut yourself, choosing your own colors and style.

Class #24 – Storage Savvy

This handy storage basket will find lots of uses in your home. It may be woven in ½” flat reed in over/under weave or in 1/4” flat oval with a twill.

Class #25 – Lola’s Designer Tote

This sturdy tote basket is available in three color schemes, each with a matching leather handle.

Class #26 – The Berkeley Basket

The Berkeley Basket is woven on a 7×11 inch wooden base, and techniques include twill (start& stop), triple twining, and a Running Stitch lashing.

Class #27 – Salish Sea Cedar – SOLD OUT

Since the 1950s and 60’s, archeologists have found preserved fragments of cedar and spruce baskets at wet sites dating thousands of years ago.

Class #28 – Swirling Tray

This little bowl is twined in a spiral pattern with 7 ply waxed linen. The beaded center bud, foot, and peaks complement the swirl.

Class #29 – Irish Sciob

This classic Irish potato straining basket, made of unpeeled willow, starts with a large round base with an unusual weave in the middle of the paired base.

Class #30 – Small E’Pergne

Weave this two-tiered epergne over class molds using cane staves and weaver and cherry bases, rims, and pedestal.

Class #31 – Ash Bark Bucket

This scored and folded one piece bark basket is a worldwide Indigenous container still in use today.

Class #32 – Gently Rounded

This lovely, tall basket is woven in an over two under one twill pattern using 140lb watercolor paper painted with acrylics and cut into strips using a pasta maker.

Class #33 – Mary Lou

This basket makes a fabulous tote or catchall. Students will learn how to make a solid woven base so items will not fall out.

Class #34 – Illusions

This footed basket features a unique pattern created by the precise placement of weavers and overlays.

Class #35 – Bend in the River Tote

Classic tote woven on a wood base with leather handles. Techniques include start and stop twill and paired triple twining.

Class #36 – Oval Picnic Basket

When you make this useful oval basket, you will learn many basic wicker techniques, including working with a Williamsburg “D” handle

Class #37 – Pine Needle Cracker Basket

Participants will be provided an elongated, wooden, oval base, artificial sinew, and long leaf pine needles

Class #38 – Ziggy

This basket’s inspiration came from the racetrack base. I wanted a spiral for the flow going around the track with a little zag in it.

Class #39 – Oval Muffin Basket

This attractive table basket is a good introduction to oval willow work. An oval split-stick base is woven and then staked up.

Class #40 – 6-inch Hat Box Trinket

his 6” round box is woven over a class mold using complete cherry construction and cane weavers.

Class #42 – Amara

This basket begins on a 4” round oak base. Students will insert flat oval stakes into the slot following a template.

Class #43 – Lazy Susan

The allure of a spinning basket is undeniable! As it spins, the woven rows create a captivating illusion of waves moving up & down.

Class #44 – Med Blue Twist

Med Blue Twist is woven on a wood base. Techniques include Chase weave, flat reed, triple twining and adding overlays. Space dyed reed is used in the middle section.

Class #45 – Black Ash, Elm Bark & Braided Sweetgrass Basket – SOLD OUT

In 2018, I helped clean out closets and drawers after a dear friend’s passing. I was pleasantly surprised when I found an old Native American ash basket, hidden away in a drawer.

Class #46 – Adornments

The main objective is to cover a plastic ring with thread using the double buttonhole stitch and add three rows of pine needle coils to make an adornment.