If you weren’t at
Show Me Weaving 2009, you missed a Great convention!
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We
had a wonderful and relaxing weaving weekend at the 2009 convention
with about 150 students, teachers, vendors, and volunteers in
attendance.
We had 125 student attendees, with 31 of those
being First Timers. There was 19 visitors who signed-in, including a couple of young middle-school
aged girls who belong to 4-H and weave baskets.
Our weaving choices for the weekend consisted of 56 baskets offered by
20 teachers. We shopped with 8 vendors and on Friday evening,
with 19 Market Place participants.
We
had truly exquisite exhibit baskets – 7 entries in the
Teacher category and 23 entries in the Hobbyist category, with the
winners being:
| Teacher
1st place: |
Diane
Gleixner (Moonlit Hills) |
| Teacher
2nd place: |
Ann
Bowers (Listen to the Sea) |
| Teacher
3rd place: |
Charles
Crenshaw (Kentucket) |
| Hobbyist
1st place: |
Jeanne
Dudley (Tapestry Shoulder Bag) |
| Hobbyist
2nd place: |
Pat
Moritz (Tapestry of Color) |
| Hobbyist
3rd place: |
Marilyn
Margrave (Seascape) |
And
a special thank you to Betty Cockburn who displayed about 100 of her
Asian Bamboo Thread Animal Baskets. We were all in awe of the
work in those baskets.
We
were able to display the 26 Swap Baskets this year too, and we had so
many beautiful baskets that could have also been entered in the cash
prize exhibit. All who participated in the Swap met a new
friend and now have a treasured basket at home!
MBG
sponsored scholarships were awarded as follows:
Curry
First Time Attendee: Melissa Smith
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| Curry
Returning Attendee: Jeannie Sisson |
| Founding
Member Scholarships: Clo Cass & Carol Smith |
Southside Weavers Guild funded 2
scholarships to commemorate two members who died this past year.
| Scholarship
in Carol Sander’s honor won by Pat Walden |
Scholarship
in Jan Deal’s honor won by Onita Lynch.
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The
Traveling Basket, a beautiful Rain Stick woven by Yvette Booker, was
won by Sue Weber. We look forward to seeing what Sue will
create for next year’s Traveling Basket.
Thank
you so much to all who donated any items to the convention.
Our Welcome bags were well received because of all the good stuff
inside! Our raffle was huge success. And, our
volunteer raffle had 4 tables full of items.
And thank you again to all
who attended and all who volunteered to make this another successful
convention! MBG runs the convention FOR YOU and only WITH
YOUR HELP, and we appreciate it so much! We hope to see
everyone at “MO Weaving Madness” in St. Louis
August 5-8, 2010!
Until then,
Doris
Hynes & Susan Ratliff
2009
Convention Co-Chairs
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