The SeatWeaver’s Guild, Inc. (TSWG) 2015 Gathering Overview

 

“Back  Home Again  In  Indiana Techniqes In Wicker

Restoration, Seat Weaving & Oh!  So Much More”

 

Friday, July 31, 2015

 

3:00-5:00 pm - Welcome to Brown County State Park

(Mention you are going to TSWG Gathering , there will be no Gate fees)

 

Registration - Abe Martin Lodge-Melodeon Hall (All Activities take place in Melodeon Hall) 5:30-8:00 PM: Continuing Registration Home of Andrew

Dick

 

1345 S. County Rd., 150W, Brownstown, Indiana Cell-DWD-217-251-7700

5:30 - 7:30pm

 

Welcome To The Farm Meet and Greet

All guests are invited for a complimentary cookout, zip lining, swimming, and visiting.

 

8:00 Executive Board Meeting - At the farm

 

Saturday, August 1, 2015

 

Breakfast on your own.

 

8:00 am Continuing registration

 

Coffee, Water, and Iced Tea available all day Saturday and Sunday. 9:00-9:15am- President’s Welcome & Introduction-Mindy King

9:15- 10:30 am “You Can Do This” - Basic through advanced techniques in Wicker Restoration-Jill Woods 10:30-10:45 am-Break

10:45 am-Noon - Jill’s Wicker Restoration Class Continues

 

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch Break - Meal (included in fee)

 

1:00 - 1:45 pm “Bringing Creativity to the Seven Step Process” - Wayne Sharp 1:45-3:00 pm “Weaving Seats With Natural Rush” - Cathryn Peters

3:00 - 3:15 pm - Break

 

3:15 - 4:15 pm - “Weaving Seats with Fiber Rush”- Bill Brick 4:15- 5:15 pm - “Creative Uses for Leftover Materials” - Jo Rusin 5:15 - 6:00 pm- Break

6:00 - 9:00 pm- Buffet Dinner (Included in fee) and Annual Meeting 

 

Sunday, August 2, 2015

 

Breakfast on your own

 

7:30- 9:00 - Suzan Diaz "Weaving A Medallion Back Chair"

 

9:00 - 10:00 am - Panel discussion - ”Running A Successful Caning Business For Fun and Profit” -

 

10:00 - 10:15 am - Break

 

10:15 - 11:30 am - “Tips and Tools”

 

11:30 am - 1:00 pm- Lunch on your own

 

Noon - 3:00 pm- Extensive chair exhibit “Seatweaving Through the Ages”

Free and open to the public.

 

1:00 - 3:00 pm - “Come Weave A Footstool” Class- Free to the first 12 attendees..

The public is encouraged to attend. (Materials fee included!)

 

DIRECTIONS FRIDAY NIGHT

 

DIRECTIONS TO AMANDA AND ANDY DICK’S HOME

8th. Annual Gathering-TSWG-Friday, July 31, 2015

5:30 pm- Complementary Dinner

 

Travel on Interstate 65.

 

Exit at Seymour, IN- Route 50. (west)

 

Follow Route 50 through Seymour (west) to Brownstown, IN.

 

Continue on Route 50 (in Brownstown you will be turning right)

 

Turn left on Indiana Route 135 (south) toward Vallonia

 

Continue about 1 mile (LOOK for the Brownstown First Baptist Church on the left)

 

Continue just past the church and turn left on County Road 150W. The road is the first left turn after the church.

 

Watch for TSWG signs with balloons attached.

 

Andrew & Amanda Dick

1345 S. County Rd 150 W

Brownstown, IN

 

David Dick-Cell- 217-251-7700

 

Andrew Dick – Cell -843-810-0484