Saturday. Sept 23rd (Members only)
- 10-4:30 Hooking, silent auction, vendors, drawing
- 5:15 - Catered dinner
- 6:15 - Annual General Meeting
- 7:15 - Educational presentation: "Tessellations"
- Open hooking until 10pm
During the day, Sharon will be meeting hookers and giving feedback on your projects.
Lunch may be purchased at the onsite restaurant or other locations
Sunday, Sept 24th (Open to everyone)
- 10am to 4:00pm, hooking, silent auction, vendors, drawings
- 12:15pm, Catered lunch
- 12:45pm Educational presentation: Marijo Taylor, “Dramatic Backgrounds Primitive Style”.
- 5:30 to 8:30 mini-classes
During the day, both Sharon and Marijo will be meeting hookers and giving feedback on projects
Dinner may be purchased at the onsite restaurant or other locations.
Monday, Sept 25th (Registered class students only)
9:30-4pm, All day class with Sharon or Marijo
Lunch is included.
Pat Finlayson, “Have you any Wool?"
Do you want to learn how to punch needle? Here’s your chance to take a great class! This pattern will cover how to punch curves, straight lines, points, small details, and background. Your kit will include finishing instructions which you can complete at home. Lesson and materials include: hand drawn pattern on monks cloth, 100% hand dyed wool yarn, 4 X 6” color photo of completed project for reference and detailed instructions. Oxford punch needle #14 may be borrowed during class and purchased if desired. No previous punch needle experience required. Please visit PNWfiberarts.com to see my gallery of both punch needle and traditional hooked rugs.
Class Fee: $45
Kit Fee: $35
Heidi Grevstad, "Simple Tulips, Simple Sky, Simply Beautiful
Join Heidi in a project designed to teach beginning shading technique, and learn how a spot dyed wool can be used to create a simple and pretty sky. In this class, Heidi will review basic hooking techniques, guide you through a simple shaded tulip, demonstrate two ways to use a spot dye for sky, and share an easy technique for finishing off a small project. Some basic rug hooking experience is helpful prior to the class, but if you are adventurous you can attend without any prior experience.
Supplies provided in class will include a 5”x7” hand drawn pattern, and hand dyed wool strips for completing the project. Hooks available for purchase in class, or bring your own.
Students recommended to have a frame or hoop to use in class, plus a pair of small sharp scissors.
Registration Cost: $45
Kit Cost: $30
Marijo Taylor, "Night Owl Oval"
Join Marijo to hook a primitive style owl, using several different techniques such as messy hooking, beauty lines, blending, and textured-beading. She will also show how to use her unique marbleized and hand-dyed wool to achieve a muted palette. Kit includes 9"x7" oval pattern on Linen, Marbelized and Hand-Dyed wool to complete the hooked project, colored photograph of project, and instructions for a simple finishing technique, and wool to back the project.
Registration Cost: $45
Kit Cost: $40
Monday Daytime classes
Sharon Saknit: "Tessellation Creation"
Ever wonder how those intriguing interlocking lizards, fish, and birds made by artist M.C. Escher were created? Those iconic images have mesmerized most of us and may seem impossible to recreate. This class will change all of that as we review the simplified rules to change specific geometric shapes into interlocking designs called tessellations.
In class, we will review the principles of tessellations and the actions needed to create them. Each student will practice these principles on paper where they will fine tune their tessellations before transferring them onto backing for hooking. Once set on your personally created tessellation pattern, we will talk about how best to execute your piece which will include discussions on color, tone, and texture.
At the end of class, each student will have a bound book containing handouts, their personal notes, and printouts of each tessellation they created while practicing each principle.
Come join us for this fun class that will open up the possibilities of creativity and design to produce a unique pattern for you to hook!
Kit Cost is $50.00 and includes handouts, all supplies to create your tessellations, backing, wool to get started on your project and a bound, personalized book of your notes, designs and handlouts.
Students should bring:
- Hooking
- Frame
- Hook
- Scissors
- Favorite colors of wool to be used in your tessellation (I will have plenty of wool for purchase as well)
- Light & extension cord (optional)
Registration Fee: $75
Kit Fee: $50
Marijo Taylor: "Harvest Moon Owl Pillow"
Join Marijo to hook a primitive style Harvest Moon Owl, using her marbleized and hand-dyed wool. The class will cover several different hooking techniques, as well as using neutrals and values in your work. Various ways to hook the motifs and background will also be presented. Kit Includes 10"x10" pattern on Linen, Marbelized and Hand-Dyed wool to complete the hooked project, colored photograph of project , and instructions for simple finishing technique of the pillow. Wool to back the project will be available to purchase, or you may supply your own.
Registration Fee: $75
Kit Fee: $58