Central California Traditional Rug Hookers
Join ATHA Chapter 57 Central California Traditional Rug Hookers for a relaxing summer retreat among the towering pines of the Sierra Nevada Foothills at the Evergreen Conference Center (ECCO) in Oakhurst, California.
Class sessions will feature your choice
of three vivacious teachers:
Donna Lovelady will teach a hooked and appliqued pillow class with your choice of either Donna's original rabbit or rooster design. A fee of $35.00 for the pattern drawn on monks cloth will be payable to Donna at the retreat. A list of supplies needed to complete the pillow will be provided. Donna is the author of Rug Hooking For The First Time and Teach Yourself Rug Hooking. She has been rug hooking for 15 years.
Gail Becker will also offer an open class. She will share her expertise with fine and wide shading, geometrics and Waldoboro style. In addition, she will have dye demonstrations with student participation. Gail is a McGown certified teacher and has been rug hooking for 9 years. Her hooked entries have won Blue Ribbons and Best of Show at the CA State Fair. Gail will have her beautifully dyed wool on hand for purchase.
Laura Pierce - Special Stitches in a 2 part Mini-Class
Enjoy a break from the usual hooking with some Special Stitches just for fun! This little Sampler,
"Garden Heart" hooks up quickly and is designed to employ some fun techniques;
- Proddy
- Sculpting
- Random Fill
- Beading
- Rip & Wrinkle
- Sneaking
Adding these Special Stitches to your repertoire, you'll find opportunities to use them in other rug hooking projects. Ordering the pattern ahead of time to hook the outlining before class will give you more class time for Special Stitchin'. You can also look through your stash and color plan your Sampler. Visit Laura at www.flyingdoghookery.com
- Scheduled for 2 2-hour sessions on Friday & Saturday afternoons at the Hooker Hill
Retreat.
- $20 Class fee
- $28 10x14 pattern on linen
- Specialty dyed wool available with pattern or in class.
Kathy Clark of Briarwood Folk Art originally created handmade, vintage style holiday paper mache items and sold them at folk art shows. In 2006, Kathy became interested in rug hooking and designed her first pattern, based on Halloween whimsy. This first rug led to developing a full line of holiday theme rug hooking patterns, as well as other non-seasonal designs. Kathy learned the basics of needle felting from Gail Becker and has evolved into making needle felted animals and wet felted items. You can see Kathy's variety of designs at both www.briarwoodfolkart.com and www.briarwoodfolkart.etsy.com. Kathy will be sharing patterns, needle felted and wet felted items and her line of fun rug hooking buttons and aprons with us at camp, as well as whatever else she dreams up before arriving at camp!