January Meeting

Our Quarterly meeting was held on January 7th and we learned how to make rug hooking journals. The guild provided small photo albums and each member who attended then decorated the journals to reflect their own personality using scrapbook paper and rubber stamps. We were instructed on how this will be a great place to keep pictures of our rugs, along with pertinent information about them - such as their size - who they were made for - what kind of backing was used - and when they were hooked. It will be so nice to have this record at our fingertips for future reference! Pictures of the albums are shown below.

Two More Stools Finished

Here are pictures of two more stools that have been finished by Guild members - the first one was done by Nancy - the wools she used for the hooked rug are a perfect color match to authentic yellowware - it looks great!

And Gayle has also finished her project - she found baskets just the right size to be used as drawers on this piece.

Pics from November Meeting

On Saturday we held our Guild meeting and had a turnout of about 15 people. Our project for the day was making wooly feather trees - every single person got theirs finished before they went home so it was a very successful get-together!

Pat & Londi worked like crazy to make it a really special gathering - they had darling centerpieces and special treats for each attendee - as well as delicious goodies to eat.

Please enjoy the photos below so you can get a sense of what the day was like for us.

November Meeting

Our November guild meeting will be our first Christmas party and we are excited!  Members please join us for a day of rug hooking, visiting, eating, and making wool feather trees.  Kits are available, so please RSVP and let us know you are coming.  Details are in the email you should have received today.  See you there!

Published!

Our Guild President, Lisa McComb, has a project published in the new Holiday 2011 issue of Create & Decorate Magazine. She designed this darling Santa hooked rug with a sheep side-kick.  Isn't it great that our local talent is getting national attention? Congratulations Lisa!

Annual Utah Hook-in

Our annual hook-in was a great success!  We had a yummy lunch from the Red Onion, great demos from Nancy Raybould and Lisa McComb, and a successful silent auction.  We were excited to have a visit from our Colorado friends, Cheryl and Judy.  We hope more out of state people will join us in the future!

Nancy Raybould talked to us about designing your own rugs and how that relates to copyright.  She referenced a great online article, How to Steal Like an Artist, read the full article here.

As always, we had a wonderful rug show,pictures coming soon...

In The News

The Logan Herald Journal recently did a feature story about the Cache Valley rug hooking group. A reporter and photographer were sent to attend their monthly meeting and did a nice job of writing about rug hooking. You can read all about it here.