Welcome to the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild

Summer Hook-in Packed with speakers, demos, and lots of fun!

The GMRHG Summer Hook-in will be held July 27-28, 2012 at the Fireside Inn & Suites in West Lebanon, NH. 

The two day event, open to GMRHG Members only, will feature speakers, demonstrations, vendors, raffles, and of course lots of hooking!

Friday’s Featured Speaker is Janet Conner. 

Janet is going to do an “Antiques Roadshow” and invites all of us to bring in old rugs for her to appraise and comment on. Janet will also have a slide show of rugs she has worked on and the stories about them.  Her style is chatty and informative; you’re sure to enjoy her.  Janet’s rug, Palazzo di Piero, was chosen as a Viewers’ Choice Rug at Hooked in the Mountains 2011 and can be seen on the Rug Show tab of the website.  Visit Janet's website at  http://www.jconnerhookedrugs.com/.

Saturday’s Featured Speaker is Helen Wolfel, one of the featured artists at the 2011 Hooked in the Mountains XV.  In addition to her incredible rug hooking skills, Helen is a skillful dyer of wool and is going to share dyeing techniques and tips with us.  Helen has a delightful sense of humor and will surely entertain us all.

 

The Hook-In will include a variety of demonstrations by our members.  Some of the demonstrations on tap are: Finishing your rug in herringbone stitch, Proddy as a pillow edge, Ideas to use those selvedges for those of us that can’t/won’t throw them away and, how to put a value to our art.

 

Since the fundraiser at this year’s Hooked in the Mountains XVI Rug Show will be Christmas Ornaments, there will be demonstrations of several Christmas Ornaments.  We are looking for more demonstrators; please contact Gail Duclos Lapierre, gail.lapierre@uvm.edu to sign up. 

 

As in the past, there will be vendors at the hook-in for those who want to shop!

For complete details and to register Click here.

Theme set for Hooked in the Mountains XVI

The theme has been set for the 2012 GMRHG Rug Show - "Time and Motion".  The Hooked in the Mountains XVI Rug Show will be held November 10 -17 at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT.

Just about everything we do involves time and motion so let your creative hooks flow!

              "The Miracle Challenge"

Another exciting component of Hooked in the Mountains XVI will be a challenge project for members.

What constitutes a miracle in your mind?  Have you experienced a miracle in your life?  Do you know of a story that represents a miraculous event in your opinion?  Do you believe that miracles happen every day? 

These questions are just a few that you can ask yourself to get started on coming up with a design.  "The Miracle Challenge" rugs have specific guidelines, such as dimensions.  Click here for more details on the "Miracle Challenge".

GMRHG Needs a Historian

Longtime Guild Historian Helen Wolfel is stepping down from her long standing role. A big thank you to Helen for doing a great job being keeper of our Guild's history.

We need someone who is interested in taking on this job. Are you that person? It doesn't take much time. So, if you have a love for the Guild and are interested in our history - WE WANT YOU!

Please email Guild President Kathy Sweeten to get more information.

GMRHG Events

27 Jul 2012 • Fireside Inn & Suites, West Lebanon, NH
03 Nov 2012 10:00 AM • Shelburne Museum
10 Nov 2012 • Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

Hooked in the Mountain XV A Huge Success!

The Show is but a wonderful memory. All can agree that the GMRHG Hooked in the Mountains XV at the Shelburne Museum was one of the best show's ever.

Over 1500 people attended the week-long Show that featured some 500 rugs artfully created by Guild Members. For a taste of what happened at the Show, watch the video, produced by Stuck in Vermont, Seven Days VT.

Sign Up Now for Classes at the 2012 Rug Show

Registration is now open for all classes being held during the Hooked in the Mountains Rug Show.

Once again Hooked in the Mountains Workshops will have many traditional, primitive and forward thinking teachers and workshops to challenge you to stretch and grow as a rug hooker. We have many new and amazing teachers with some of our favorites returning.

A wide variety of topics are being covered this year including a series of three classes that will be team taught, the classes may be taken as a series or individually. The workshop series include Rae Harrell's "Evolution", Diane Learmonth's "Alice Neel - Women" and Diane Phillips' "Triptych". All three teachers will be in attendance during each of the classes. If you take the series of all three classes you will receive a $60 discount off the total registration fee from the three workshops.

The workshops are limited to no more than 15 students per class.

Click here for more information and to register.

In addition, scholarships are available. Click on the link for the Patty Yoder Scholarship application.

The Raffle Rug is Traveling Again!

The GMRHG will once again raffle a rug designed and hooked by members of the Guild.  The rug will be raffled off at the Hooked in the Mountains XVI in November.

Designed by Sharon Townsend and Emmy Robertson, the rug has been passed around from Iowa to New Jersey and is now in Vermont.  Members will continue to work on the rug at meetings, hook-ins and informal gatherings.  Watch for it in your area soon!


Diane Phillips, Diane Kelly and Diane Learmouth
 hooking on the Raffle Rug

GMRHG Forum

19 Jan 2012 1:18 PM • Anonymous
16 Jan 2012 2:15 PM • Anonymous member
26 Nov 2011 1:22 PM • Anonymous

Share your News

Do you have news to share? Do you know of upcoming events that would be of interest to other Guild Members?

We're looking for information to share with GMRHG members. Please send us your news!

Information can be sent to website coordinator Kathy Sweeten.
 
 

Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the fine art of rug hooking.  For more information CLICK HERE to contact our Guild President Kathy Sweeten.  Mail:  GMRHG, c/o Kathy Sweeten, 50 Prospect Parkway, Burlington, VT  05401.