Historic Sauder Village

Retreat Instructors & Class Descriptions

We are honored to welcome very accomplished and highly respected rug hooking instructors for the 2008 Retreat. You will spend four days of rug hooking study with a select instructor. In preparation for your class, your instructor will contact you in advance to plan your project. Following is information on each teacher for your review. We encourage you to register early, as these classes fill quickly!!

Instructors for this year’s Annual Rug Hooking Retreat include...

Dianne Kelly – Hiram, OH... woolencottage@config.com
"Developing Your Own Style - Pushing Your Creativity"...
Heritage Inn... Min 10 / Max 15
Tuesday – Friday, August 12 – 15, 2008 49:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Dianne has been rug hooking for twenty-five years. Her intrigue with this craft started with an early childhood memory of a Great Aunt who hooked. The excitement surrounding her Aunt as she showed off a new hooking creation is a memory that still lingers with Dianne. When she spotted a gathering of rug hookers at an Ohio festival, it inspired her to make a change in the direction of her life. Her love of rug hooking is so fulfilling and it has given her a chance to push the envelope of her creative abilities.

Wide cut, hand cut and designing are her favorites. She likes high loops that are wider spaced which makes for a very soft rug with a unique look and feel. She is currently hooking a series of lovely cake pattern designs. Dianne's interior design background has contributed to her inspiring design of patterns and color development in her rugs. She has her own line of patterns and manufactures a magnetic rug hook that is designed for primitive hooking.

Dianne is a McGown trained teacher and has "Woolen Cottage Rugs" and also runs Woolen Cottage Workshop. Her rugs have appeared numerous times in Rug Hooking Magazine and ATHA Magazine. She has also taught many workshops around the country.

There will be plenty of hand-dyed wools in country and cottage colors for your pleasure. Embellishments are encouraged, if pattern permits. A pattern book will be available for purchase if desired. You will learn many hooking techniques. Come join the fun and be inspired by Dianne!

Anita White – Overland Park, KS... anitahooksrugs@yahoo.com
www.greenwoodmercantile.com/rug/index.htm
"Capture the Charm"...
Heritage Inn... Min 10 / Max 15
Tuesday – Friday, August 12 – 15, 2008 49:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Anita started rug hooking in 1994 while living in Alaska. She taught herself from kits purchased at the Valley Forge Gift Show. Upon moving to Kansas, she took classes from Marilyn Schmidt and began attending camps and workshops learning from many teachers and developing her own style. Ten years ago, she began classes in her home and currently teaches 10 classes monthly. For the past seven years she has been teaching at numerous camps and workshops around the country each year.

In 2001, she completed the McGown teacher's training and is currently the Assistant Director of the South Central Teacher's Workshop. Her work has appeared in Rug Hooking Magazine and she received awards at the 2006 McGown Biennial in Des Moines. She has been an antique dealer since 1985 and currently has a booth at The Greenwood Mercantile in Greenwood, MO where she sells antiques and rug hooking supplies and teaches monthly classes. www.greenwoodmercantile.com/rug/index.htm

Anita's style reflects the use of as-is and over-dyed textures, plaids, spot-dyed wools and especially antique paisleys to develop her rugs. Floral, fruit, animals and geometrics with large scale motifs suitable for wide-cut rugs in a primitive, traditional, folk art or contemporary style are welcome in her class. She will conduct an open class allowing the student to choose any designer's pattern or a pattern of their own design. During the class, she will help the student with the four factors that make a good rug... design, color, texture and technique. She will also cover dyeing and finishing techniques. Her class offers the student an opportunity to learn in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

Carol Kassera – Aledo, TX... ktimberman69@msn.com
"Fine Shading Doesn't Need to be Frightening "...
Heritage Inn... Min 10 / Max 15
Tuesday – Friday, August 12 – 15, 2008 49:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Is "fine shading" a frightening premise? If so, let Carol ease your fears with easy to understand instructions.

Carol Kassera is a certified Pearl K. McGown rug hooking teacher; receiving her certification from Pearl in 1974. She teaches at numerous rug schools and workshops from coast-to-coast and has been featured in Rug Hookers New and Views and has been on the cover, in the teacher feature, and other articles of Rug Hooking Magazine. She has also been in Celebrations and is proud of her many students that have likewise been honored.

Carol is a former oil painter who turned her attention to designing rugs and bought Margaret Hunt Masters' pattern business in 1989. She has also developed a catalog under The Prairie Craft House logo. Margaret loved Christmas patterns and Carol has continued with that tradition by designing a new Santa Claus every other year.

Although Carol enjoys and respects all types of rug hooking, her first love is fine shading. Pictorials, orientals, flowers and especially animals are her forte. Carol will work with students on any designers' pattern as well as doing custom designs at her students' requests. She also enjoys color planning and dyeing the wool for her students.

Sally Kallin – Pine Island, MN... rugs@pitel.net
www.pineislandprimitives.com
"I Have a Color Wheel & I'm Not Afraid to Use It!"...
Heritage Inn... Min 10 / Max 15
Tuesday – Friday, August 12 – 15, 2008 49:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Sally Kallin, owner of Pine Island Primitives, lives with her husband and daughter on a hobby farm in the rolling hills of southeastern Minnesota with a great dog named Jack, three horses and a bunch of fun cats. After 20 years in the big city (Minneapolis/St. Paul) as a graphic designer, Sally and her family moved to the small town of Pine Island, MN.

She began her rug hooking business when people started asking to buy patterns of rugs that she was working on. This was a dream come true to find an art that would combine her love for design and fabrics. And oh..., does she love wool! Her shop is filled with over 1000 yards of wonderful textured wool. Sally's designs are inspired by nature and antiques. The crisp, colorful fall season inspired The Mighty Oak, which she was thrilled and amazed to have selected for inclusion in Celebration XII.

Since then, she has been teaching at rug camps and workshops at home and around the country. She has written several articles for Rug Hooking Magazine and her work has been featured in a number of issues. You can also view her work in the book, Projects for Primitive Rug Hookers or on her website at www.pineislandprimitives.com.

Sally has worked with color all of her life. She sees color as the most important aspect of rug hooking. Sally has a fondness for wide-cut antique style and impressionistic rugs. Using wide cuts allows for the use of wonderful textured wool.

Sally loves to teach and color plan and her teaching style is very open. There will be several mini lessons throughout the class with a lecture time committed to discussing color theory. You will learn a lot of useful tips and tricks. This class takes the fear out of working with color and the mystery out of using a color wheel. It is designed to help you gain confidence in making color choices. She encourages students to trust their instincts and think outside the box and believes that each rug teaches us something new. Whether your palette is bright and bold, soft and subtle or muted and antique, the goal is for you to go home with a rug that you love and can't wait to finish. She will help you in color planning a rug that you are proud of and have fun in the process.