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2025 - 2026 Guild Meeting Programs (Sept-June)

Previous Years Programs (Sept-Aug):

September 10, 2025 (Wednesday, 8PM): Ingrid Isuwiq (Seal) Hansen: "My Weaving Journey" (hybrid)

Please join us in-person at PNC and on Zoom for a presentation by Ingrid Hansen who will share her basket weaving story.  Ingrid will join us via Zoom from Olympia, WA; there will be a group meeting together at PNC.

Photo: Ingrid is to the right in the central picture, with her daughter Jessica. it is her grandma Sella with her children in the upper right picture. Ingrid left Alaska when she was five, but says it is an exciting time to be an Alutiiq because of the indigenous cultural revival going on in Alaska. Ingrid has created several YouTube video tutorials on how to weave an Alutiiq basket. She is currently working on a revision of her Alutiiq basket weaving handbook.

From Ingrid: My name is Ingrid Isuwiq (Seal) Hansen. I am an Alutiiq, a tribe located in Southwest Alaska. I was born in Pilot Point, a village on the shores of Bristol Bay. I learned how to weave an Alutiiq basket in 2009. I’ve been weaving and teaching Alutiiq basket weaving since then. My weaving journey has been personal and community-based. I benefited from two teachers, Lois Chichenoff Thadie and Vicky Era Pankretz. They were part of the cultural revival initiated by the Alutiiq Museum on Kodiak Island. I teach the traditional style of Alutiiq basket weaving to Alutiiq students and students who are not Alutiiq. I just finished a successful Alutiiq-style basket weaving class for Olympia Weavers Guild members. I have enjoyed getting to know more about other types of weaving this year as I attended the Northwest Basket Weavers retreat at Seabeck and the National Basketry Organization conference in Tacoma. I am excited to learn and grow as a weaver and a teacher of weaving.

We look forward to seeing all of you!

MEETING DETAILS: 6:30 PM, Wednesday, September 10, 2025. Anouncements at 6:30 PM

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HOW TO JOIN THE MEETING by ZOOM:  Access Information will be sent by Guild eNews email on the Friday before the meeting, is published in the Guild Newsletter, and is also posted in the Members Only section of this website (access requires password).

Also, as meetings are open to the public, non-members who would like to participate via Zoom should send an email to: webadmin@nwbasketweavers.org

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY PARTICIPATED IN A ZOOM MEETING:
you know the drill.

IF YOU ARE NEW TO ZOOM:
you will need to have the Zoom Client App on your device (computer, tablet, phone). The easiest way to do this is to go to the following URL: https://zoom.us/test
You will be asked if you want to download the Zoom Client, and given the opportunity to test your connection.

Alternatively, for laptop or desktop, you can use your web browser to go to https://zoom.us/ and download the Zoom Client App (https://zoom.us/ – click on “SIGN UP FOR FREE” – Zoom changes the location of this button every time I look, but with diligence you will find it – click and follow instructions). For tablet or phone, go to your App store and Search and download “Zoom Workplace” (or whatever Zoom is currently calling its App). Again, go to https://zoom.us/test to test your connection.

When it is time for the actual meeting, you need only click on the URL in a recent eNews email and also posted in the Members Only section of the website; you will be asked if you want to open Zoom, and offered instructions on how to continue.

TEST YOUR CONNECTION: again, after you have installed the Zoom Client App, you can test your connection by going to
https://zoom.us/test in your web browser, and following instructions.

We look forward to seeing all of you!Ingrid Isuwiq (Seal) Hansen

October 8, 2025 (Wednesday, 8PM): Willie Ziegler: "My life in Basketry" (Zoom only)

Please join us on Zoom ONLY for a conversation with long time and Honorary Guild Member Willie Ziegler.  Willie  is an absolute font of information about most aspects of basketry. Not wanting to make a formal presentation, she has offered to share some of her background through answering a series of questions about herself and her journey through basketry. The Program Committee came up with fourteen questions for Willie to choose from. Which ones she chooses will be a surprise. Jill Green will interview Willie using her chosen questions; it is sure to be entertaining and informative.

Willie provided the following statement when she rejoined the NWBW Board of Directors in 2021: “Hi, I’m Wilma (Willie) Ziegler. I currently live in El Cajon, California (East San Diego county). I lived in Seattle from 1959 to 1999. I have been a Guild member since either the 3rd or 4th year it existed. I am an eclectic weaver interested in all types of techniques and materials. I enjoy classes that teach me something new, and I enjoy teaching to pass on what I have learned. Other than being a royal pain in the butt I don’t know what else to say. Oh, I have been President, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer for 12 years, and on various committees.”

Willie and the late Pat Reese have written the very useful book ‘Grounds for Gathering: Plants West of the Cascades‘. The plants may be west of the Cascades but many of them are also found further east and north (including the Northwest Territories in Canada). It’s available in the Guild Library.  

Field and Forest Crafts (Erin Cox) in NE Seattle has copies of ‘Grounds for Gathering: Plants West of the Cascades‘ for sale for $27 plus tax. If you want to pick up a copy at that location please email erin@fieldandforestcrafts.com 
*Erin Cox will offer a limited number of books for sale to those outside of the area. Erin’s business is not set up for shipping and tax rates; this is a limited time offer…order by 10/10/25. Book plus mailing will be $38 for most US locations; you must pay by Venmo or check before shipping. If interested, first email Erin at erin@fieldandforestcrafts.com .

We look forward to seeing all of you!

MEETING DETAILS: 6:30 PM, Wednesday, October 8, 2025. Anouncements at 6:30 PM

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HOW TO JOIN THE MEETING by ZOOM:  Access Information will be sent by Guild eNews email on the Friday before the meeting, is published in the Guild Newsletter, and is also posted in the Members Only section of this website (access requires password).

Also, as meetings are open to the public, non-members who would like to participate via Zoom should send an email to: webadmin@nwbasketweavers.org

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY PARTICIPATED IN A ZOOM MEETING:
you know the drill.

IF YOU ARE NEW TO ZOOM:
you will need to have the Zoom Client App on your device (computer, tablet, phone). The easiest way to do this is to go to the following URL: https://zoom.us/test
You will be asked if you want to download the Zoom Client, and given the opportunity to test your connection.

Alternatively, for laptop or desktop, you can use your web browser to go to https://zoom.us/ and download the Zoom Client App (https://zoom.us/ – click on “SIGN UP FOR FREE” – Zoom changes the location of this button every time I look, but with diligence you will find it – click and follow instructions). For tablet or phone, go to your App store and Search and download “Zoom Workplace” (or whatever Zoom is currently calling its App). Again, go to https://zoom.us/test to test your connection.

When it is time for the actual meeting, you need only click on the URL in a recent eNews email and also posted in the Members Only section of the website; you will be asked if you want to open Zoom, and offered instructions on how to continue.

TEST YOUR CONNECTION: again, after you have installed the Zoom Client App, you can test your connection by going to
https://zoom.us/test in your web browser, and following instructions.

We look forward to seeing all of you!Ingrid Isuwiq (Seal) HansenIt

November 12, 2024 (Wednesday): "Holiday Gift Exchange"

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For the past many years, NWBW Guild has sponsored a holiday gift exchange for members. With the advent of Covid, the gift exchange  went online, and now we celebrate both online and in person by sending or bringing our gifts and opening them either from your Zoom  site or at the live meeting.

The gifts are of such a wonderful variety: baskets made by members,  baskets found elsewhere (never go looking at Goodwill after Jill Green  or Kay Ames, they already got the best baskets), basket themed books,  tools, supplies, handmade whatever (scarves, jewelry, preserves, hats,  ceramics) hand cream, soaps. As Vicky Nickelson once said: just give  something you would like to receive. Since we are a multi state and  province organization, lots of the gifts are mailed and you can’t put the delivery off until the last minute unless you have a private jet. If you  don’t know your recipient and want to know something about them,  email Barbara and she will try to help you. 

If you would like to participate in The NWBasket Weavers Guild Holiday Gift Exchange, please email your name and street address  to Barbara Osborne by Tuesday, October 1. 

Here are the guidelines and timeline:

By October 1:  email your name and street address to Barbara at  basketmaker47@icloud.com. Barbara will do the drawing and email  you the name of the recipient of your gift by October 4. 

You are responsible to get your gift in the mail soon enough so that  the gift recipient can open it at our November 12 hybrid Guild meeting  online via Zoom or in person at Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Center.  You are also welcome to hand deliver the gift to your recipient.

Recommended mailing dates: 
     for Canadian mailings, in the mail by  October 27;
     for domestic mailing, in the mail by November 5.

MEETING DETAILS: November 13th, 2025 @ 6:30PM, Wednesday.  This meeting will be in person and on Zoom (i.e. hybrid)