Group Meetings

Listed below are the different rug hooking groups who meet locally - along with contact information in case you're interested in joining with them! The more the merrier!

The Cache Valley Hookers meet on the 2nd Friday of each month from 12-3 at Sandy's home in Wellsville. Please contact her for the address at tdlewis63 (at) gmail (dot) com

This group meets in Davis County on Tuesday evening every single week at 7pm. Please contact Rebecca at rlemperle (at) comcast (dot) net

The Plum Alley Hookers meet on the 3rd Saturday in downtown SLC at the Rio Grande train depot. Please contact Londi at londirowley (at) comcast (dot) net   ~or~  Lisa at lisawooly4ewe (at) aol (dot) com  for information on how to gain access to the building.

Nancy hosts a rug hooking meeting each month on the 2nd Wednesday from 10-1. Email her at nancyraybould (at) gmail (dot) com to get her home address.

A daytime group meets in Clearfield on the 1st Tuesday of each month from 10-1. Please contact Marliss at motivated5 (at) yahoo (dot) com  ~or~  Gayle at dyeing2hook (at) msn (dot) com  for the location.

If there are any other groups we're not aware of, please leave a comment below with the information and will be happy to include it here!

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...