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Primitive Hornbook | Rug Hooking Individual Instruction | Hook for Halloween! | Crazy Quilt Rug Hooked Bag

2nd Thursday Hook 'n Hoot - Rug Hooking - 4PM - 8PM

H207 - Rug Hooking Individual Instruction

Dawn Hummer
Call to arrange a private class.

100908 - Hook for Halloween!

Halloween hooked pillow When: Thursday, Oct. 9, 10AM – 12:30PM
Class Description: Boo! Hook your child’s Halloween art or your favorite Halloween design. This is an irresistible class for anyone with a love of Halloween! We will use primitive drawing techniques to transfer your child’s or your own favorite Halloween design to linen backing.
Select your favorite wool or yarn and enjoy some happy Halloween hooking!
Prerequisites or Class Prep: Bring your favorite Halloween art, traced with black Sharpie. Bring your hook and frame or purchase at Old Oaks Ranch.
Class Level: Beginning to advanced (all levels welcome)
Fee: $30.00 + your pick of wool or yarn and/or bring some of your own stash as well.
Instructor: Dawn Hummer

111308 - Crazy Quilt Rug Hooked Bag

When: Thursday, Nov. 13, 12PM – 4PM (feel free to bring your lunch)
Class Description: This is the bag you have seen at the studio and now is the time to make one of your own! Bring your yarn stash and favorite rug hook from home and/or purchase a hook and some of our wide array of colorful yarn to create your own style. Each participant will draw their own pattern of geometric shapes to form your own crazy quilt bag, to the dimensions you choose. Then, we will hook with yarn to create the vibrant shapes which will become a crazy quilt rug hooked bag. Finishing may be done at home.
Prerequisites or Class Prep: Bring your hook and frame or purchase at Old Oaks Ranch.
Class Level: Beginning to advanced (all levels welcome)
Fee: $ 50.00, includes linen backing, leather strap, and batik lining.
Instructor: Dawn Hummer

H15 - Primitive and Colonial Folk Furnishings (Primitive Hornbook)

Dawn Hummer
New Dates Coming

Class cost: $40.00 + $40.00 for materials: hornbook and linen backing w/colonial home on hill design.

Ring in the new school year, with a tribute to the past. We will be hooking a decorative cover for a primitive-style hornbook (10"x6"). Hornbooks were traditionally used as an alternative to using multiple sheets of expensive paper in the old school days. A single sheet of paper was attached to a paddle of wood and a thin sheet of cow's horn was the protective transparent cover - thus the namesake "hornbook".
*Additional costs: Purchase your own colors of wools for hooking - available in studio. *Hooks and frames available for purchase, or bring yours from home. This will be the third in the series of Folk Art Furnishings by Wayne Sims . Each piece will be available in 2 colors/ styles and hand-signed. The pattern will be a primitive pattern designed by Wildflower Wools. Sign up now to start your own hooked collection of these beautiful pieces of folk art.

Photo courtesy of: Blackwell History of Education Museum