After weaving the basket, countless possibilities await. It can be used as a purse, project basket, mail basket, or whatever you decide. The natural and smoke colors are precut and ready for weaving. Participants will select the accent color(s) during class. Although the basket will be completed during class, the Cherokee Wheels may have to be finished at home. Participants will learn to lay out a base, weave a locking row, weave start and stop rows, weave Cherokee Wheels as accents, and rim the basket with 30” leather handles. The dimensions of this tote basket are approximately 7” x 12” x 12” high.

Ages 16 and over.

Lunch is provided by the Nome Schoolhouse.

Class begins at 9 am and will last 6 hours.

Hi I’m Marcy Blikre.  This passion for basket weaving had a simple beginning.  After weaving a basket with a friend, I signed up for basket weaving classes through Moorhead (MN) Community Education.  Little did I know it would become more than a simple pastime!  I have been weaving for over seventeen years and belong to the Headwaters Basketmakers Guild (Bemidji, MN).  I attend several workshops each year to learn various weaving techniques and to get new ideas from the teachers and fellow weavers.  As a retired educator, I love to teach basket weaving to those interested in this lost art form.  A useful basket is one of beauty and purpose.  I am drawn to weaving utilitarian style baskets using flat or round reed but will also use natural materials such as willow and birch bark.  Baskets may have a similar beginning, but each is distinctive in size, style, color, and presentation.  Selecting a basket is a personal choice, how one uses it depends upon one’s needs.

Your Instructors and the Nome Schoolhouse do much to prepare for your arrival. To honor the work that we put towards your place in the class there is a firm time frame around when and how refunds are given. Tickets may be transferred to another person upon approval by the Nome Schoolhouse.

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9 am Basket weaving class begins

12 pm Break for Lunch

5pm  Leave with a beautiful basket made by you.