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Presented below are some of the rug hooking events that are available for interested people. We have divided the events into three categories:
Schools and Workshops
Trent School of Rughooking
Dates: Sunday, June 14 to Saturday, June 20, 2009
Location: Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Seven courses offerred:
- An Open Class to Hook any Project
- Hooking the Clothesline
- Hooking with Jon
- 1, 2 - Hook a Few
- Wide Cut Crewel
- Mad For Maud
- The Hooking Room
More information and the registration package is available on the Trent School of Rug Hooking web site.
Prairie Harvest Rug Hooking School
St. Peter's Abbey, Muenster, SK
Dates: September 20 - Sept 25, 2009
Classes:
- Beginners/Find it Finish It - Lynne Howard
- Pictorials - Carolyn Clemens
- Wm Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement - Tanya Graham
- Fine Shading of Flowers - Ann Taylor
- Traditional Primitive - Beatrice Grant
- Hooking with Anything other than Wool - Laurie Wiles
Contact: Dorothy Oltsher at 1-306-373-3040 or doltsher@shaw.ca
Retreat Weekends
Dates: Thirteen weekends from April to October 2009
Location: Belleville, Ontario (on a 167 acre fresh produce farm)
Teachers: Jeanne Field (2x OPEN), Janice Daniels (Cats), Donna VanDusen (beginners), Wendie Scott-Davis (3x Bags, Signs, Negative Space), Marie
Miller (Sheep), Iris Simpson (alternatives), Karen Kaiser (2x Design, Art rugs), Andrea Graham (felting)
Details: Meals and accommodation included $300.00
Contact: Karen Kaiser at woody.kaiser@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.artworksbykarenkaiser.com/
Hook-Ins and Gatherings
4th Annual Powassan Hook In
Date: Sat. June 6th, 2009
Where: Golden Sunshine Club at the corner of Edward St. and King St., Powassan,Ontario
Time: 9:30 - 3:00
Bring your bag lunch and something for show and share and your hooking. There will be treats and beverages provided.
Cost: $3.00 There will be vendors and a trunk sale.
Powassan Padulas contact: Kathryn Kirton (705)724-2945 or Beulah Hamilton dandbhamilton@yahoo.ca
Hookin at the Cabin
Date: Wednesday July 15, 2009
Time: 10am-????
Bring lunch and a lawn chair. For more information and directions contact Mary-Janet Mustard 556711 Strathaven Rd., R.R.5 Chatsworth Ontario N0H 1G0, 519-794-2216, jmjm@bmts.com
Haliburton Rug Hooking Branch Hook In
The Haliburton Rug Hooking Branch is holding its 4th Annual Hook-in on Saturday, July 25, 2009 at the Minden Museum.
Contact: Carole Bullen at carole.bullen@sympatico.ca
Gone Hooking
A Traditional Rug Hooking Group in Maple Risge B.C. meets each Thursday (10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) at the Lions Den in Pitt Meadows B.C.
Contact: Freda Jackson at freda33@telus.net
Visitors welcome, Beginners Classes available
Heritage Rug Hookers
Meet the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 7:00-9:30 p.m. at the Sherbrook Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and get together one Saturday per month in a member's home for a hook-in.
Contact: Rita Smith at r.m.smith@sasktel.net or (306) 997-2121
Monday Hook-Ups
Monday Hook-Ups meets at Oaklands Community Centre, 1-2827 Belmont Avenue, Victoria, BC
4th Monday of the month (usually), September through April excluding December, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Contact: Michaele Freeman at mbfreeman@telus.net or (250) 595-6302
Beginners welcome!
Wild & Woolly Hookers
Date: First Saturday of the month
Hooking, dyeing, and fun!
Wildwood Park Community Centre, 271 North Drive, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Contact: Letty Last at lettylast @ hotmail.com
Heritage Hookers
Heritage Hookers (Lakewood, Colorado) meets the 3rd Saturday of each month at Lakewood Heritage Museum in the museum office conference room from 12 until 3:30
Address: 801 S. Yarrow Street, Lakewood, CO
Contact: Cheri Talbot beezer6636@comcast.net or (303) 986-9360
Loose Ends
Sidney, British Columbia
Meets the third Tuesday afternoon each month.
Locations vary. Call 250-656-4201 for more information.
Shows, Conferences and Trips
Memories of My Mother
Memories Hooked Rugs - A Travelling Exhibit
Orillia, Ontario - April to June 2009
Contact: Vicky Cooper at vcooper @ brucecounty.on.ca
CreativFestival
Dates: April 24 to 26, 2009
Web Site: http://www.csnf.com/
Quilt & Rug Hooking Show
Westmount United Church in Orillia, Ontario
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009
We will have a large display of quilts & quilted items, rugs & hooked items, a Silent Auction ,
vendors, and demonstrations of quilting & rug hooking. Admission is $2.00.
Contact: Linda Jordan at (705) 326-5568 or petejordan10@sympatico.ca
Bus trip to the Shelburne Museum Rug Hooking Show
To all of you who live in Southwestern Ontario, come and join us for a trip
to the Shelburne Rug Hooking Show. Pack up your suitcase, grab a good book
and board our Motor Coach in London, Ontario for a fun filled trip to
Vermont. We will be leaving Nov.9th, 2009 and returning Nov.14th, 2009. You will be
relaxing at the Hilton in Burlington, Vermont where our Motor Coach will
chauffeur us back and forth to the Rug Show. At the museum you will see one
of the best rug hooking displays. Two floors of awe inspiring inspirations.
On the third floor are the vendors-go wild- the bus has lots of room for
storage. We also have many side trips planned thru Vermont one of which is
an exclusive evening course with Rae Harrell at her studio. Prices for this
trip start at $500.00 for a room of 4sharing, $550.00 for a room with 3,
$600.00 for a room with 2 and $1000.00 for a private room. We will help you
find room mates if needed. Call Catherine 519-205-0104 or email
englishtheresa@hotmail.com for more information.
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