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Welcome!!
The Upper South Carolina Basketmakers Guild welcomes you to this website. We are an organization dedicated to the teaching and sharing of basketmaking ideas and skills. Our guild meets the 1st Thursday of every month at the Lutheran Church of Our Savior at 6:30 pm. The church is located down from Red Lobster on the way to Taylors at 2600 Wade Hampton Blvd., Greenville, SC 29615.The picture shows students at the Sept. 12 workshop of the Lakelands Guild in Chappells as they make Jane Wilson's Small Appalachian Basket.
NEWSLETTER: VIEW THE LATEST (Nov./Dec.)NEWSLETTER HERE.download Nov./Dec. Awl the News file The Guild will sponsor a Nov. 14 workshop at the Church. There are 6 baskets to choose from. Plan to bring your lunch or visit a nearby local restaurant. We will also have a raffle to benefit the Goody Liner Bags for our Weave In, 2010. Any basket related item is welcomed. download Nov. 14 Baskets and Registration Form. Go to the Extra Pictures page to see pictures of the baskets offered on Nov. 14. WEAVE-IN, 2010 - Click on the Weave In page in the left hand column for updates. VOLUNTEER,DONATION FORM.
To record our work throughout the year, members are asked to fill out the volunteer, donation form. If you have donated your time, supplies, help, or baskets to help a cause, to teach children, to promote the guild, please take a minute to fill out the form. Turn the forms into Jeri Pool, Secretary, who will keep them along with the minutes of the meeting. Download a copy of the form here.download Volunteer Form Guild file
CONGRATULATIONS BASKET SUPPLIES!!! Elaine Robson has P.L.Butte reed in various sizes for $6 a coil. Contact Elaine at 864-243-9384.
LAKELANDS BASKETRY GUILD OF SOUTH CAROLINA Lakelands Schedule for 2009. The Lakelands Guild has set the following schedule for the remainder of the year. The latest Lashing News Guild newsletter is available here. download Lashing News, Oct., 2009 file
As part of the festivities at the Jill Choate workshop, Elaine Robson made some delicious "chocolate waffle cookies". The recipe is attached here. This is a great recipe - try using it when the grandkids come to visit. Let the children help make the waffles. Serve them warm with ice cream. download Chocolate Waffle Cookies
2010 Lakelands Basketry Guild Projects: Next year the Guild will use Lynn Siler's Basket Book as a guide to our monthly projects. Lynn's first book (The Basket Book) is out of print; her other book (The Ultimate Basket Book) contains the baskets from the first book plus additional projects. Either book will suffice for next year's projects. The Ultimate Basket Book can be ordered from NC Basketworks or from Amazon. Used copies of the first book, The Basic Book, are also available at Amazon.
- Pati English will continue her workshops at her home this summer and fall. Check out her website on the left later this summer. Pati is also teaching at John C. Campbell in 2010. Check out the link at the left for John C. Campbell folk school.
- Priscilla Phillips and Jean Arden will teach with the Furman FUHLIR program this fall.
- Elaine Robson sponsored a successful diagonal plaiting class at her home this summer.
Interested in Nantucket baskets?? Check out this document from Joni-Dee Ross and Denise Bendelewski. download Woodland Retreat
NEW LINK AT LEFT!! Marianne Barnes and Pati English - along with other artists/teachers - have founded an online gourd college. Visit the link to the left (www.gourdcollegeonline.com). As a student, you have one-on-one access with the teacher, a chat room to help you create your basket or gourd, and a timeline that fits your schedule. What a unique way to work with gourds and baskets!!!
JOHN C CAMPBELL: The new John C Campbell catalog (2009-2010)is available now and lists many wonderful basket workshops and other opportunities to explore. Check out the link at the left.
Directions to Church.
Any member wishing to bring items before the board is welcomed to contact any board member and especially Maxine Riley and Dolores von Rosen who are our members at large and represented the entire guild.
A "call tree" has been developed to contact members in case of an emergency cancellation. The letter is included in the July/August newsletter that was mailed around July 2nd. The cancellation will also be posted on the website and through e-mails.
The following are the meeting dates for 2009. Listed next to the date are the refreshment volunteers. Also listed are the activities we plan for that meeting.
Nov. 14 - Workshop. Refreshments by Denise Gillam and ????
Dec. 3 - Dirty Santa
President - Peggy McCarson, Newsletter
pmccarson@charter.net
963-1799
Debbie Ogle, President-elect
Pati English, Past-President.
Denise Gillam, Treasurer, Membership
Jeri Pool, Secretary
Maxine Riley, Member at Large
Dolores von Rosen, Member at Large, Special Events Coordinator dvonrosen@hotmail.com
Priscilla Phillips, Special Events Coordinator
Sandy Roback, Hospitality
If you would like to join our guild, the membership dues are $15 and the membership year runs from August 1 through July 31. Download the membership application here: Membership Application file
Send your check to:
Upper SC Basket Guild
% Denise Gillam, Membership
202 Middle Mountain Rd
Pickens, SC 29671
SWAP, SELL, OR BUY
If you are looking for a special pattern, a particular basket supply, post your request here. If you have some patterns, reed, supplies you would like to swap or sell, post your information here. Remember that we will not violate copyright rules - so make sure you have permission to share or sell a pattern. Requests will be posted when received. Contact Peggy McCarson at pmccarson@charter.net to list in this section of the website. Mamye Enlow is going out of the jewelry/bead making hobby. If you are interested in a wide selection of beads, etc., contact Mamye.
Elaine Robson has PL Butte coils of reed available at $6 per coil. Various sizes are available. Contact Elaine at 864-243-9384.
