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Rug Hooking Retreat
14th Annual Rug Hooking Week
2010
at Sauder Village
Retreat:
Monday, August 16 – Friday, August 20, 2010
Rug Hooking Week
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Celebration Rugs
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Exhibit | Rug
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Retreat
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Retreat Class Descriptions
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Workshops
Workshop Registration
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Volunteer Opportunities
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Volunteer Registration
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Schedule
The Annual Sauder Village Rug Hooking Retreat is held in
the beautiful Sauder Heritage Inn, the ideal setting for
these special classes where you will be inspired, expand
your knowledge and enrich your skills. An easy walk from the
Retreat site allows you to enjoy Historic Sauder Village,
the Rug Exhibit in Founder's Hall, the Barn Restaurant,
the Doughbox Bakery and the Sauder Store & Outlet during
your stay. Class sizes are limited so
register
early!
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Retreat
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The Retreat Instruction fee is:
$ 275.00
per student, payable with your registration.
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Your Retreat
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Four days of
rug hooking study with a select teacher.
Click here for Retreat Instructors
listing and descriptions of their specialties.
- Opening reception,
including a light meal and dessert on Monday evening after
check-in.
- Private preview of
the Rug Exhibition
before
the show opens to the public.
- Early Shopping with rug vendors during the
Private Preview.
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Daily
door prizes.
- "Show & Tell"
evening to share your project with others in the Retreat.
- Complimentary admission
into the Rug Exhibit and entire
Historic Village through Friday, allowing you the
flexibility after class or during a break to see the show or
do some shopping. Admission on Saturday into the Exhibit,
Vendors, and Historic Village will require the purchase of
an admission ticket, unless you have a rug on display in the
exhibit.
- You may also want to consider
becoming a Member, which provides unlimited admission
during Rug Hooking Week and all season, while helping to support the
mission and programming of Sauder Village.
- Cancellation Policy...
Cancellations prior to June
25, 2010 will receive a refund of fees paid minus
a $75.00 processing fee. No refunds
provided after June
25, 2010. If classes do not meet a minimum number of
students by June 25, 2010, we may be forced to cancel the
class and all fees will be refunded.
- Questions? Call or email Dawn
Hauter, Retreat Reservationist, at
800.590.9755, ext. 3076 or
dawn.hauter@saudervillage.org.
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Plus
additional great options for you... |
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Questions? Call or email Dawn, Retreat
Reservationist, 800.590.9755 ext. 3076 or
dawn.hauter@saudervillage.org.
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Please
register for your preferred teacher right away as
instructor preference is reserved on a first come basis! |

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Retreat Instructors & Class Descriptions |
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Once
again we welcome very accomplished and highly respected rug
hooking instructors for the 2010 Retreat. Enjoy four days of
rug hooking study with a select instructor. You will work
with your teacher in advance to prepare for class and plan
your project. See the following for information on each
teacher. Register early, as these classes fill quickly!
Instructors for this year’s Annual Rug Hooking Retreat
include...
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Gene Shepherd - Anaheim, CA
Email:
gene@geneshepherd.com
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Website:
www.geneshepherd.com
"Attending to the Details"
Tuesday – Friday, August 17 – 20, 2010, 9:00 am –
4:00 pm
Heritage Inn - Homestead Room A
Min 10 / Max
15
 In this retreat, you can focus on
one or a combination of the three details that Gene
relies on most when making his own unique hooked rugs:
basic technique, use of specialty dyed wools, and
realistic prodded flowers and 3-D embellishments.

Known for his ability to communicate technical
information and rug hooking “short cuts” in simple
terms, Gene will help you improve the technical details
of your projects. His approach in this area is relaxed,
as he knows your technical goals are unique. To that
end, he works to create an environment where you can
choose your own level of concentration and focus.
Many
of Gene’s rugs “pop” due to the inclusion of intricately
detailed, realistic prodded and 3-D embellishments.
Although he has already defined the prodded steps to
many flowers and plants, collaborate with Gene and he
will help you create the details. Or if the steps to
making his Peace Tea Rose seem daunting as you look at
the printed instructions, take this class and let him
give you a personal lesson!
While Gene always enjoys collaborating with students to
interpret one of his original designs, you may bring any
pattern suitable for cuts 6 -10. Prior to class, he is
available to consult with you about your project, as
well as determine or develop the special dye techniques
that suit the particular needs and color preferences of
your chosen pattern. Gene will also bring a large
variety of hand-dyed wool to class. If you supply your
own wool, he will help you utilize it to the maximum.
Described as a “self taught artist who hooks by ear,”
Gene does commission work, designs, dyes, develops
tools, teaches and writes about rug hooking. His work
has been featured in Rug Hooking Magazine, ATHA
Newsletter and Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs, XII, XIV
& XV. As an author, editor, artist or producer his
work include: The Rug Hooker’s Bible, Rug
Hooking at Home DVD series, Prodded Hooking for a
Three-Dimensional Effect book/DVD set, instructional
downloads and tutorials on his web site. Gene has been
director
of the Cambria Pines Rug Camp, Cambria, California,
since 2000. He teaches regularly in Southern California
and, on a limited basis as his schedule as Senior Pastor
of Anaheim First Christian Church will permit, at camps
and workshops in the United States and overseas. He
lives in Anaheim, California, with his wife Marsha and
daughter Ann.
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Jane Halliwell Green - Edgewater,
MD
Email:
jane@janehalliwell.com -
Website:
www.rugandwool.com
"Hooking a Pictorial Rug is… Like Reading a Good Book
and Feeling Sorry it Has to End!"
Tuesday – Friday, August 17 – 20, 2010, 9:00 am –
4:00 pm
Heritage Inn - Homestead Room B
Min 10 / Max
15
In this retreat, Jane will provide you
with in-depth instruction on all the elements involved
in creating a pictorial rug: skies, water, cottage
gardens, mountains, snow, and buildings to name only a
few! She is the teacher behind innovative
techniques—such as pixelating, shagging, baby proddy and
walking the line—which are used to add texture to
pictorial wall hangings. Jane will share her love for
this unique rug style by teaching and demonstrating all
of these creative techniques during the retreat.
You
may choose either a fine or wide cut pictorial for the
class, and if you need assistance choosing or drawing a
design, Jane will help you. A pictorial rug is
fascinating -- with so many intricacies, you could never
be bored hooking one!
Jane Halliwell Green’s interest in art began as a little
girl watching her Irish grandmother hook rugs. A
graduate of the Ringling School of Art and Design in
Sarasota, Florida, she has taught watercolor and drawing
and she is a well-known textile designer and teacher. A
certified McGown rug hooking instructor since 1994 and a
rug hooker since 1961; she is known for her fine cut
pictorial
rugs, fine and wide cut floral tapestries, and her
fabulous color planning system. She is often associated
with hand-ripped floral wall hangings called
“Close-Ups.” She has taught throughout the U.S. and
Canada and her work has been in numerous juried shows.
"The Jack of Hearts" was part of "The Art of Playing
Cards" traveling exhibition. Jane was the first rug
designer invited to teach at the Smithsonian in
Washington,
D. C. and she was affiliated with this institution for
over six years. Jane authored numerous articles for
Rug Hooking Magazine as well as two books on
creating pictures in fiber, The Pictorial Rug
(2000) which quickly sold out and Pictorial Hooked
Rugs which was just released in October, 2009. She
also appeared on HGTV’s, Carol DuVall Show in 2000.
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Helen Jeffrey - Ozark, MO
"Braided Borders on Hooked Rugs"
Tuesday – Friday, August 17 – 20, 2010, 9:00 am –
4:00 pm
Heritage Inn - Gathering Room A
Min 10 / Max
15
Braiding is a wonderful way to finish
and frame your hooked rugs, chair mats, table runners,
bench mats, stair treads and gifts. In this retreat you
will learn braiding, butting (joining the ends of the
braids) and lacing (attaching braid). If you have
preconceptions that this technique is complicated or
requires too many tools and equipment, Helen’s technique
is simple, inexpensive and it eliminates tools and
equipment.
This
retreat will feature not one, but three braiding
projects! The retreat itinerary is as follows: Days
1-2: Learn and practice braiding and then lace the
braiding to your mat. Supplies will be furnished by
Helen. Students should bring a 10”x18” hooked mat to
class (simple, borderless design of your choosing on
linen, burlap or monks cloth, fine cut or primitive,
hooked prior to class but do not cut away excess
foundation
or bind it). Day 3: Hook or penny rug a small
9”x9” heart pattern during class then add the braided
border. The heart shape is good practice for corners and
butting. (Helen’s kits are $20, and include all
supplies.) Day 4: Make a small 10”x14” oval
braided mat, which teaches you everything you need to
know to make a large braided rug and how to add multiple
rows of braiding to a hooked piece. (Helen’s kits are
$18, and includes cut and measured fabric and lacing
thread).
Helen will contact you in advance with specific
directions and supplies that you will need to bring to
class and what to complete prior to class. She will also
answer any questions you may have. You will need to
bring your own basic hooking supplies: a frame, hook and
scissors.
In
1940, Helen was taught rug braiding by her grandmother.
With World War II, a military husband, college, and
small children, the braiding was postponed until she
moved to the Kansas City area in the 1950’s. With Alice
Beatty’s book in hand and a determination to learn rug
hooking, Helen launched out on her own. Inspired by the
early Shaker rugs, she began combining hooking with
braiding. Her work can be seen in Amy Oxford’s 2005
“Hooked Rugs Today.” Many of Helen’s rugs are
scattered across the country as she has exhibited and
sold at the Arkansas Arts & Crafts Festival at War Eagle
for thirty-one years. She studied weaving at the Wichita
Art Association, focusing on the antique coverlet
weaves, color and fiber structure. After moving to St.
Louis in the 1970s, Helen taught braiding and hooking
while participating in the Cultural Heritage Program,
sponsored by the University of Missouri, the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Missouri Arts
Council. She also taught continuing education classes at
a St. Louis College. Since moving to the Ozarks twenty
years ago, she has taught many workshops. The emphasis
of her classes is to encourage her students to carry on
the traditions of pioneer women who had few resources,
expanding upon what they passed on, and exploring ways
to combine color, fabric and techniques with the today’s
resources.
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Bea Brock - Kerrville, TX
Email:
beabrockdesigns@gmail.com - Website:
www.hillcountry-rugworks.com
"Creating a Glow in Your Rugs"
Tuesday – Friday, August 17 – 20, 2010, 9:00 am –
4:00 pm
Heritage Inn - Gathering Room B
Min 10 / Max
15
Step into the “LIGHT”—the light and
glowing color of Bea Brock's whimsical styled rugs, that
is. Using predominately wide cut (6, 7, and 8) and
occasionally 5 cut, this class is for those who want to
move in the direction of truer jewel tone colors and
learn to create a glow or “hum” to their rugs by use of
value and complimentary color. Stepping away from simple
outline and solid filling in, we will explore the use of
several tones in one area to read as one color all the
while creating close up interest in our composition. An
overview of composition, balance and color use will also
be discussed.
When
deciding on a new project, color is one of the first
decisions to be made. Frequently we have two or three
colors in mind but the scope of complexity soon enters
in when we begin and have to decide how and where to use
those colors. Design and color are Bea’s passions,
followed closely by her love for conveying these
passions to her
students.
You will choose your project in advance and work
collaboratively with Bea. Bea offers custom design kits;
however, any designer pattern, original pattern or works
in progress are also welcomed.
Bea Brock began hooking in 1996 after life long
experiences with fibers, textiles, and art. Her
educational pursuits led her to the Art Institute of
Chicago where she graduated with an emphasis in painting
and drawing. Professional experiences include graphic
design and illustration. After learning to hook, she
immediately began designing her own patterns. Invited by
Jane King to pursue her McGown Certification, she
completed requirements in 1999. Some of her earliest
patterns were distributed with Primco/House of Price,
among them “Birds and Berries” which was featured in
Celebration XIII. Her pattern design “Barn
Symbol
Galaxy,” (hooked by Madonna Shelly), graced the cover of
Celebration XVIII. Bea has written for Rug
Hooking Magazine and The Wool Street Journal.
She has also written and published a dye book with
accompanying swatches called “Gemstone Colors.”
In 2008 she launched her website, where she markets her
patterns for rug hooking, wool appliqué, and needle
punch.
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Rug Hooking Week
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Celebration Rugs
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Exhibit | Rug
Registration | Rug
Check-In & Shipping
Vendors |
Retreat
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Retreat
Registration
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Retreat Class Descriptions
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Workshops
Workshop Registration
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Volunteer Opportunities
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Volunteer Registration
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Schedule |