Comments on: About us http://www.willowbasketmaker.com Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joanie King http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/about/#comment-294 Joanie King Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:50:55 +0000 http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/about/#comment-294 I am so excited about finding this site.I am way over here in Pittsburgh. I live in a neighborhood with many abandoned yards. I am hoping to establish a teaching craft garden. One of the things I would love to grow is willow for basket making. Of course I know nothing about willow and less about how to make baskets. I myself work in clay and have a love for the material sensibility. In a former life I was schooled in the form follows function religion and my late teacher Makoto Yabe helped curate a show called Kindred Spirits referring to Shaker and a Japanese Craft Aesthetic. So you know I love your work. Is there any chance of yinz (Pittsburgh for you plural), Giving any classes or workshops out this way. I love the idea of going that way but my first travel Goal is Scotland. Also How many bushes make how many of what kind of baskets. Say each participant gets one bush. Also My best skill is color. I would love to start with basics of several kinds so people could learn the differences. If you could make some recommendations. Thank you Joanie King. PS Guess what: I have a budget. I am so excited about finding this site.I am way over here in Pittsburgh. I live in a neighborhood with many abandoned yards. I am hoping to establish a teaching craft garden. One of the things I would love to grow is willow for basket making. Of course I know nothing about willow and less about how to make baskets. I myself work in clay and have a love for the material sensibility. In a former life I was schooled in the form follows function religion and my late teacher Makoto Yabe helped curate a show called Kindred Spirits referring to Shaker and a Japanese Craft Aesthetic. So you know I love your work.
Is there any chance of yinz (Pittsburgh for you plural), Giving any classes or workshops out this way. I love the idea of going that way but my first travel Goal is Scotland.
Also How many bushes make how many of what kind of baskets. Say each participant gets one bush. Also My best skill is color. I would love to start with basics of several kinds so people could learn the differences.

If you could make some recommendations. Thank you Joanie King. PS Guess what: I have a budget.

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