Dream Weavers of Matthews Basket Guild

🎄The Dream Weavers of Matthews wish a very Merry Christmas to all our followers who celebrate the holiday! We can’t wait to share our projects with you in the new year! 🎁

🎵 O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree!🎵 Christmas caroling is even more fun when you have delightful decorations like these woven trees made by guild member Dona D!

The Dream Weavers annual Christmas lunch and gift exchange was a ton of fun!! Merry Christmas to all!

This charming Christmas wreath made by guild member Dona D was on display at our Matthews Alive exhibit. Did you see it there?

Here are some of the Baskets of Love our members made for the Matthews Free Medical Clinic. The baskets will be given to patients who are working hard but don’t have much for Christmas. The best part? The gifts will be a surprise for the recipient!

Dream Weaver Dona D has been busy making all kinds of fun Christmas projects! We will be featuring several of her baskets this month. Here are Dona’s snowman and candy cane. ⛄️

Guild members have been busy making our Baskets of Love. We partner with the Matthews Free Medical Clinic to adopt families for Christmas. Members fill their baskets with presents to share with the families. We love giving back to our community!

Is it beginning to look a lot like Christmas at your house? Dream Weaver Diane made these adorable characters for her family! 🎅🏻🧑🏻‍🎄

We had a full house at last night’s guild meeting! Camille led a class on a Nantucket style vase with black staves. It was a very popular project!

Sometimes we just can’t wait until the next guild meeting to get together! Dream Weaver Carolyn Kemp hosted a birch bark basket necklace class attended by Ginny, Pat, and Camille. Nice work, ladies!!

You can see all of Carolyn’s baskets and patterns in her Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CarolynKempBaskets

Happy Thanksgiving from the Dream Weavers of Matthews! This amazing cornucopia was woven by guild member Dona D. May your tables be overflowing with good food and happy moments to remember!

Who’s making pumpkin pie this week? Wouldn’t this pumpkin make a nice center piece on a Thanksgiving table? We think so!

This festive pumpkin was made by Dream Weaver Nancy D.

Look at this lovely fall pumpkin designed by our very own Nancy D! Who else is weaving for Autumn?

Trick or treat? We think this clever witch’s hat is definitely a treat! Dream Weaver, Dona, made the hat using a wire frame from Dollar Tree. It sure is fun!

At last night’s guild meeting, Susan taught us how to chase weave around wine bottles to make an olive oil dispenser. We especially liked watching the spiral emerge and travel up the bottle!

Who wants to take some basket making classes? We have three classes coming up, all taught by our members! We will feature one class a day this week. Did you see our other class posts this week?

Class #3: Star Workshop
December 9th, 9:30-11:30 am
Matthews Community Center, McDowell Arts building, downstairs

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Drop in anytime. This is a FREE class.

Please contact Nancy Brown Duffie for more information!

Who wants to take some basket making classes? We have three classes coming up, all taught by our members! We will feature one class a day this week. Did you see yesterday’s post?

Class #2: Slated 8" Melon Basket with God's Eye

Nov 2nd, 5:30-8:30 PM

Great ribbed baskets for beginners or those who love ribbed baskets. Bring regular tools.
Class size is limited to 8 students.

Cost: $45.00

Please contact Carolyn Kemp to register!

Who wants to take some basket making classes? We have three classes coming up, all taught by our members! We will feature one class a day this week. Stay tuned!

Class #1: Birch Bark Woven Star
Oct. 17th, 7-8:30 PM
Cost is $15
Teacher: Carolyn Kemp

The finished star is 2" x 2". Bring sharp scissors. Open to all levels.

Class size is limited to 8 people.

Please Contact Carolyn Kemp to register!

Are you ready for Spooky Season? Dream Weaver Diane is! Diane saw a large woven Dracula at NCBA, came home, and made this tabletop version from memory. She even hand painted the face!

We worked on our Baskets of Love tonight! Baskets of Love are filled with gifts and donated to adopted families at the Matthews Free Medical Clinic. Our members looks forward to this project every year!

Did you know that some of our members teach basket making classes? Dream Weaver Nancy D shared this photo from her recent class at the Matthews Community Center. All the pumpkins turned out great!

Who’s ready for Fall? These autumnal baskets were made by our members. Did you see them at our Matthews Alive display?

Looking for something fun to do today? Dream Weaver Camille and her beautiful baskets will be at the Creative Showcase in Cornelius!

We had a grand time hosting our basket display at Matthews Alive. Look at all the Best in Show votes! Can you guess how many votes were cast?

Yesterday we had a packed house at our Matthews Alive display in the Community Center! Have you voted for your favorite basket yet?

This year’s basket display at Matthews Alive may be our best one yet! We can’t wait to see you!!

The Dream Weavers are hosting a basket display at Matthews Alive this weekend! Come see us in the Community Center and vote for your favorite basket!

We made hurricane lanterns at Guild tonight. They are trickier than they look! Many thanks to Nancy D for leading our class!

Our next guild project is washed and ready for wood bases and weaving! Want to know what we’re making? Come see us at the McDowell Art Center this Tuesday, August 22nd at 6:00 pm!

Look who we found! Former Dream Weaver Mary is a vendor at the Southern Comforts Fiber Market. Be sure to stop by her booth to see her beautiful baskets and handspun yarns!

It was Christmas in July for the Dream Weavers tonight! Nancy and Diane taught us how to make stars!

Looking for free weaving reaources? Check out the library from the Missouri Basketweavers Guild!

Missouri Basketweavers Guild - Weaving Tutorials Bases to Weave 4 Rod Wale - Bases to Weave - Debbie Hurd Braided Handle - Bases to Weave - Candace Katz Butterfly Knot - Bases to Weave - Candace Katz Cherokee Wheels - Bases to Weave - Debbie Hurd Cross Stitch Technique - Bases to Weave - Debbie Hurd Folded Rim - Bases to Weave - Debbie

It was a smaller group than usual but we still had a great time weaving together tonight! Several members finished their trivets while other members brought their own projects. Thanks for teaching our class, Stephanie!

Our members have many talents. Look at Mary’s paintings - aren’t they beautiful?

The Dream Weavers had a Saturday morning Weave-In today. Members brought a variety of projects and enjoyed spending time together. It was so much fun that we think we’ll try it again in the Fall!

Guild member Bonnie brought these pine needle baskets for show and tell at a recent guild meeting. The different shapes and sizes are so interesting!

Dream Weaver Dona enjoys weaving with paper. She brought a few samples to a recent meeting; some she made and others she purchased. The variety of bright colors are so nice!

The Dream Weavers had fun learning a twill pattern from Laura Lee Zanger at last night’s guild meeting. Our class was taught by founding member, Stephanie B. Thanks, Stephanie!

We also had several members bring baskets for Show and Tell. We love when our members share their creations!

Wow! Our local guild has 1,000 followers of our page! We are really happy to know we reach over a thousand basket makers every month! Thank you!!

Basket weavers are The Best! 😁

Guild member Nancy D helped the Dream Weavers finish our Triple Twine Twist baskets we started last month, a basket Nancy designed! The basket features a lovely triple twined pattern just below the rim. We also celebrated two new members, Karen and Terry!