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“Tray-Chic” Workshop with Alice Strebel

Date: Evening – Wednesday, August 15, 2012 – 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Class Fee: $50.00 / Members $46.00 Kit Fee: $48.00 (finished wood tray) or $42.00 (unfinished wood tray) - payable to teacher at the beginning of class Location: Founder’s Hall – Stage Left Alice’s Website: www.alistrebeldesigns.com Description: You will have the opportunity to learn how to combine needle felting with rug hooking to complete this charming 6"x14" handcrafted wood tray with mat insert. Use it to hold your hook & scissors, jewelry, or add a hanger to the back and hang it on the wall. The mat insert is 5"x11" so you may very well leave class with a finished piece in hand. Alice will show you how to attach the mat to the wood tray. You will have a choice of finished on unfinished tray to choose from. If you select the finished tray, it will have a black finish. If you select the unfinished tray, you can take it home and paint it or stain it the color of your choosing and then insert the mat.    Alice is a whiz when it comes to helping students have more fun and be more creative with their projects, so this is sure to be an entertaining evening.  Level:  No Experience Necessary.  Everyone welcome, no prior rug hooking or needle felting knowledge or experience required. Kit Description:  Handcrafted wood tray, linen pattern, wool for hooking, and wool roving for needle felting. Students Need to Bring: Basic hooking supplies: a frame, scissors, cutter, cutter blade #8, hook, sewing needle, and black sewing thread. (Foam and felting needles with be provided to use in class.) Bio: Alice has been teaching fiber art nationally and internationally since 1986. Her business, Ali Strebel Designs for Kindred Spirits, is located in Dayton, Ohio; where she sells the extensive line of books and patterns she has published as well as hand dyed wool, yarn, roving and other fiber art supplies. She has also developed a line of fiber and fiber art inspired jewelry. Beside her own books, Alice’s work has been featured in Rug Hooking Magazine’s Designs for Primitive Hookers, The Wool Street Journal and numerous other publications. Specialties: Art of embellishing clothing, primitive stitchery, needle felting, punch needle, whimsical dolls, quilts, rug hooking and other fiber arts. [return to workshop listing]

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