Spoon carving at the Driftless Folk School
Last year at about this time, my sister and I took a class on sweet grass basketry at the North House Folk School. This learning vacation together, we took a class on spoon carving at the Driftless Folk School in Viroqua, Wisconsin. I took some pictures as we worked to be able to share. The…
Snowflake for 2014
Every year, I make a snowflake for my Christmas tree. Here is this year’s edition; my design.
Ornaments, 2014 edition
So, I’m taking three (?) shortcuts. Using my phone to take a picture. No light tent. Blogging on my phone. What’s the saying? Perfect is the enemy of good? I wouldn’t at all say that this picture is good, but perhaps good enough for a little project. Back to the beadwork! For one of my…
Additional baskets from “Sharing Traditions” at Yosemite National Park
I limited my basket photographs in my last post to baskets made by the three main demonstrators at Yosemite in the last 80 years, Maggie Howard, Lucy Telles, and Julia Parker. There were other baskets at well, rooms of them. Enjoy! Carrie Bethel was Mono Lake Paiute, and these baskets were made in the 1930s…
“Sharing Traditions” exhibit at Yosemite National Park
“Sharing Traditions” tells the story of 80 years of basket making in Yosemite National Park. I was fortunate enough to see this exhibit in the summer of 2012, and took pictures to share. Yosemite National Park has an 80-year tradition of basket-weaving demonstrations, and this exhibit celebrates that legacy and the three primary basket-makers –…