Diane Stoffel Workshop

Our Guild sponsored a three day workshop with Diane Stoffel on March 19, 20, & 21 and it was a great experience for all who attended. Diane teaches without holding anything back, and is an artist who can advise on fine cuts, primitives, landscapes, portraits and everything else that can be imagined. Everyone made great progress on their projects. Below, she is demonstrating some techniques for the class.

Because Diane is from Cape Cod, the goodies that we received were all related to a sea theme which made it fun. First day we received a paper cone filled with salt water taffy and tied up with a darling cluster of seashell & fish charms - which Kim promptly displayed on her purse  - so cute!

The second day we received sugar cookies shaped like sand dollars and a clever tool to measure the size of the strips used for rug hooking. (cookie picture unavailable)

Final day we were treated to yummy cupcakes on their own cake stands ...

 ...and some combs for cleaning the gripper strips on our frames - fun stuff!

Diane gave a great demonstration on dyeing in electric pots.

Using the same three primary colors she came up with two totally different results as seen below - amazing and beautiful!

There were 21 students in the class and the facility had great light and plenty of room to spread out.

Class projects will be shared in a future post. Thanks go out to the Guild Board who worked so hard to make this event a huge success!

Meeting Pictures

The Guild held a work meeting on Saturday at the Pleasant Valley branch of the Weber County Library. Jennifer kindly shared her design for a Valentine Heart pillow and that's what most people were working on during the day. Jennifer's finished project is shown below, followed by various versions that developed as time progressed....

Book List

This is a list of books owned by the Guild. They are available for members to borrow.

Better Homes and Gardens. Rug Making, Meredith Corporation, 1978.

Black, Elizabeth. Hooked on the Wild Side, Rug Hooking Magazine, 2004.

Bonanomi, Maggie. A Day at Sunny Brook: Primitive Projects to Recall Home Life in the 1800’s.  Kansas City Star Books, 2012.

Bonanomi, Maggie. Book of Days: Create Your Own Primitive Book Full of Days. Kansas City Star Books, 2011.

Bonanomi, Maggie. Button Wood Farm: 19 New Primitive Projects. Kansas City Star Books, 2011.

Bonanomi, Maggie. Comfort Zone: More Primitive Projects for You and Your Home.
Kansas City Star Books, 2010.

Bonanomi, Maggie.  Nature’s Offerings: Primitive Projects Inspired by the Four Seasons.  Kansas City Star Books, 2009.

Bonanomi, Maggie. With These Hands: 19th Century-Inspired Primitive Projects for Your Home.  Kansas City Star Books, 2008.

Davies, Ann. Rag Rugs: How to Use Ancient and Modern Rug-Making Techniques to Create Rugs, Wallhangings, Even Jewelry – 12 Projects. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1994.

Finishing Hooked Rugs: Favorite Techniques from the Experts.
Rug Hooking Magazine, Stackpole Books, 2013.

Krull, Betty with Susan Huxley, The Secrets of COLOR in Hand-Hooked Rugs: Your Complete Guide to Selecting and Using Color. Rug Hooking Magazine, 2004.

Projects for Fiber Art Lovers. Rug Hooking Magazine & The Quilter Magazine, 2006.

Reakes, Lizzie. Beautiful Ragwork. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2002.

The Hook-In Was a Success!

Our annual hook-in has come and gone, and what a fun event it was! We had a great turn out with 35 people in attendance. It was held at a great venue in Morgan with lots of room and great light - an entire wall of windows to make it easy to see. The board worked hard to make it a success and they are pictured below. Thanks to all of them!

Here's an overall picture of the room.

Leah gave us information about the history of fraktur designs - they are very adaptable to rug hooking.

The rug show had some great pieces - which one is your favorite?

These are the rugs that participants were working on throughout the day.....

.....and there were other projects besides rugs that were being worked on.
Quilting.....

Knitting....

Crafting with wool....

It was a great day with lots of eye candy and delicious food. Can't wait till next year!