The Heat Is ON Hook-In & Regional Workshops

A snippet from Francine Birket’s award winning (and huge!) rug

wow!  Wasn’t that a great day?

The Northumberland Rug Hookers typically host a hook-in every 2 years and invite folks from the surrounding area for a day of cameraderie and hooking, and usually there are a few vendors. 

Lois Smith, winner of the Fine Cut category

This year, tho, we opted for a different approach, and included several workshops....just to see if it is possible. The answer is.....yes, it is, but there’s a LOT of work involved!  We’ve had a team of folks working on this project for almost a year, and we’re thrilled with the results. 

Iris Vermeulen, winner of the wide cut category

Our theme for the day was The Heat Is ON, focussing on climate change. There were 2 speakers to address the topic:

- Jennifer Wiber on Temperature Tapestries, visualizing climate data through rug hooking

- Alice Olsen Williams, presenting her fabulous quilts with indigenous motifs

(and just to be different, we’ve posted short videos instead of lots of photos....)

There was a display of rugs, and attendees voted on their favourites:

- fine cut: winner Lois Smith

- wide cut: winner Iris Vermeulen

- theme - The Heat Is On: winner Francine Birket

For those who want to study the rugs at their leisure, here’s a link to a photo album containing shots of most of them.

There were many vendors (click on the links below to go to their web sites, where applicable):

- Hooked on the Lake
- Andjareenas

- O’er the Hill Jewellery

- Yarn-it

- Willow Creek Rug Hooking

- Thistles & Sticks

- Gudrun’s Hand Dyed Yarns

- Heartfelt Fibre Arts

- Chris Poole Sharpening

There were 4 workshops taking place, and there was lots of learning going on!:

- Rookie Hooking with Tina Cole

- Tangle Art with Wendie Scott Davis

- A Journey into the World of Primitive/Wide Cut with Loretta Moore

- The Heat Is On (pictorial) with Susan Clarke

...but most of all, there were lots of rug hookers!  One of our best attended hook-in’s ever.  Thank you all for making it such a success!  A huge thank you to the tremendous effort from all of our volunteers - they’re the reason this went so well!