Welcome to Guilders Weave 2023

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Guilders Weave (GW) is an adult weaving event hosted by Tidewater Basketry Guild of Virginia beginning Thursday evening, January 12,  2023 and continuing through early afternoon Sunday, January 15, 2023 To register as a member you must belong to one of the following guilds: The Basket Bunch, Central Pennsylvania Basketry Guild, Deer Creek Basketry Guild, High Country Basketry Guild, Tri-State Basketry Guild, or Tidewater Basketry Guild. Guild membership must be current at the time of the event. Others may sign up during open registration after the deadline for guild members has passed.

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A note from the GW23 Chairwoman Tina :

It's time to start our planning of Guilders' Weave 2023!!  With the disappointment of 2021 and 2022 being canceled, we are excited to get the ball rolling and make 2023 our comeback GW year and have some new and really exciting things planned!!  I want to start off by saying that over the last two years our guild members and GW attendees have been very generous in donating "bee and sunflower" items for the raffle basket.  The basket is here at my house and well packed with all sorts of "bee"tiful items and it will be on the raffle table for 2023!!  There are also a lot of themed items that were going to be used for decorations and gifts.  I have all of them and they will be used for 2023, but not sure how just yet.    My theme for GW 2023 will be "A Weaving Wonderland" because it is going to be WONDERFUL to get back together!!  Kim Voska is my co-chair and she will be great to work with because she has a couple of past GWs under her belt.   Back in 2020 we had a gift card theme basket as my guild raffle basket.  It was a HUGE success and I am going to go with it again.  I will be collecting ANY KIND of gift card in ANY AMOUNT.  Please consider donating one....perhaps one you received as a gift and won't use, one from your favorite store or restaurant, one from your favorite weaving place, one for a gas purchase, or any other idea.    Now comes the reason for this email.  I am looking for volunteers to help make Guilders' Weave 2023 a success.  I can't do it alone.  YOU are the reason it all comes together.  Kim and I have been talking and we have decided that we are going to do something a little different this year.  If you have even considered in the tiniest way "I WONDER how they do such a great job. I WONDER how they put all of this together.  I WONDER how much time goes in to this.  I WONDER if I could do it."  We would like to form a group for anyone who has ever thought about maybe one day being a GW chairperson.  We would like for you to start working with us and seeing how it all comes together and attend some of our get togethers and learn the ropes.  Maybe one year, after you see the fun involved and how it really is NOT that hard to do....you will step up to being a GW chair.  We want to answer your curiosity questions.  Please let me know if you would like to join us. I was asked 3 years prior to chairing if I would like to be on the jurying committee (of course, by Billie Dorris and you didn't tell her "no").  It was so exciting!!  At that time, the baskets were mailed in and we had an up close look and feel! I offered to help out anywhere I was needed.  The next year I was asked to take over the hospitality room (which was only keeping it tidy and wrapping things up at night).  The more I did, the more I wanted to do!! Then Jan and Laura got me a bit more involved with the behind the scenes paperwork stuff.  I had no idea all of that went on.  I was asked to do some craft painting at home.  You really do not realize that you can be a big help in the smallest of ways.  PLEASE VOLUNTEER!!  GW takes a good number of volunteers to be successful.  Please sign up to be one!!  You would be a big help to me by volunteering to be on my committee.  Any amount of your time will be greatly appreciated!!  Please reply back to me and let me know that you want to help.  The FINAL reason for this email is that we are looking for a co-chair for Kim in 2024.  This person will work right along with Kim and I and be well prepared to take on Guilders' Weave 2025.  We need you NOW because you will be on the jurying committee and get to see all of the beautiful baskets that are sent in for us to choose from!!  You will be with us when we do the class selections.  It is VERY important that you step forward and offer to be the third in line so that you will know exactly WHEN and WHAT to do.  It truly is A LOT of fun and very rewarding when you see it all come together and be a success!!    I look forward to hearing back from you.     Thank you. Tina Plageman