My huge birchbark baskets to barter for the wheel, etc.
Because I didn't have $500 to buy the entire lot of kilns, wheel and materials, I took my three most precious baskets. My birchbark baskets. One is very tall, about a foot and a half, the second Mary helped me make, a ribbed baksket with birchbark weavers. The third was a smaller basket which I have too large a handle on, but which suits my inventions.
I don't know why I don't make more of these birchbark baskets. They are the best baskets I've ever made! They look so much better than anything else! Especially the ribbed one.
Anyway, I thought perhaps I could sell her soaps and my huge baskets in exchange for a lot of the price. I had about 40 bars of soap, worth $200 and the baskets which I figure are worth for the giant one, $125, the ribbed one $75 and the smaller one $50.
At the meeting, I asked Marie, our RS President, if it would be okay to bring them into the hallway and put on display in case anyone would like me to teach how to make them. She thought that would be a great idea.
Corliss did want to learn and wanted me to come down and teach a workshop. That is on the island in the St. Lawrence seaway. It is wolfe island.
I don't know why I don't make more of these birchbark baskets. They are the best baskets I've ever made! They look so much better than anything else! Especially the ribbed one.
Anyway, I thought perhaps I could sell her soaps and my huge baskets in exchange for a lot of the price. I had about 40 bars of soap, worth $200 and the baskets which I figure are worth for the giant one, $125, the ribbed one $75 and the smaller one $50.
At the meeting, I asked Marie, our RS President, if it would be okay to bring them into the hallway and put on display in case anyone would like me to teach how to make them. She thought that would be a great idea.
Corliss did want to learn and wanted me to come down and teach a workshop. That is on the island in the St. Lawrence seaway. It is wolfe island.