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April online course coming closer…and studio notes
Dear Diary, We are installing new shelves in the back of the studio as we just had cheap rough pine ones there that looked like some ones basement ( my basement actually I have the same ones down there). I bought some big beautiful wooden shelves that look more like furniture that gives us lots of room for wool storage where we make our kits on the way to the back workshop. I also bought … Read entire article »
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online course this winter? i need your feedback…
Dear Diary, Over and over again I hear that you want an online course and I am thinking about it. I have been looking at webinar hosting sites and figuring out the best way to do it. I have no idea but I can figure it out. Yesterday I figured out how to change the sidebar on my blog after seven hours of playing with it and now I feel like….. well….smarter than I did the … Read entire article »
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first workshop in the new workshop room
Dear Diary, We just finished the September Workshops, six days in total of Sea and Sky. I have a new appreciation of both in terms of rugs hooking. It was one of the first times that we focused completely on a particular element in a three day workshop and I think the results were good. It was also the first workshop in my new workshop space at the studio. It was so freeing to be able … Read entire article »
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Hooking Houses Workshop
Workshop on Houses with Deanne Fitzpatrick in her studio www.hookingrugs.com/workshops This summer series of halfday workshop is great for those of you who want a short retreat, a staycation, or are just passing through. We storm the kettle, focus on learning one element of rug hooking, experiment with freestyle, and eat oatcakes…that’s what we do! Call us if you want to come, and register. We take a $20 deposit and you pay the rest when you come. for … Read entire article »
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don’t be afraid of what your hands can do
Dear Diary, I have been hooking rugs, teaching people about hooking rugs, and writing about the same for twenty years. When you do something for so long, so seriously you’ll really start to believe you know something about it. I think it was Malcolm Gladwell who said after ten thousand hours of doing something you get to be considered an expert. I don’t believe in experts when it comes to art and creativity. In fact I … Read entire article »
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it’s in her stitch
Dear Diary, This week my friend Heather came out to teach me a bit about cameras. I dropped by Megan Lewis’s studio and she taught me how to use my tripod. Hollis Bartlett, who helps design this site often teaches me how to carry out new things on the site. I am surrounded by teachers. I am a teacher. I use this site, my books and my workshops to instruct, and teach others about rug hooking. I hope that it nots just rug hooking that you learn about here, and through my work, but that is not up to me. Learning is up to the student. I have put down a book one year, and devoured it another because I was more ready to contain whatever it had to offer. The … Read entire article »
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