The 2020 Show & Tell
February 14, 2020
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
We are now in the middle of February and here in Lancaster County, we have had the very smallest of winters so far. The time will be changing soon and spring will be arriving next month.
The Woolwrights gathered together once again for a very special day and we were so excited to have our friend, member, and guest speaker, Judy Carter, tell us the story of her rug hooking career. Judy's story became one of the most inspirational, educational, interesting, and fun stories that we have been able to enjoy over the years. She told us of how she got started rug hooking by happening upon a hooked rug that could not be identified and explained just how important it is for us all to label our rugs with our story for people in the future who may come upon one of our treasured works. Judy gave encouragement by saying there should be no rules to rug hooking, but to follow your heart and your own inspiration to hook the rug that you love. She told stories of finding solutions to ideas that she had for a rug and just going with an idea and ending up with something that suits the rug beautifully. We saw some of Judy's first rugs and some of her most recent artistic endeavors and it was a great day! The Woolwrights were so blessed to have Judy with us to hear of her inspiration, her love of rug hooking, and the "faith" in living our days through our art. Thank you, Judy.
The Woolwrights gathered together once again for a very special day and we were so excited to have our friend, member, and guest speaker, Judy Carter, tell us the story of her rug hooking career. Judy's story became one of the most inspirational, educational, interesting, and fun stories that we have been able to enjoy over the years. She told us of how she got started rug hooking by happening upon a hooked rug that could not be identified and explained just how important it is for us all to label our rugs with our story for people in the future who may come upon one of our treasured works. Judy gave encouragement by saying there should be no rules to rug hooking, but to follow your heart and your own inspiration to hook the rug that you love. She told stories of finding solutions to ideas that she had for a rug and just going with an idea and ending up with something that suits the rug beautifully. We saw some of Judy's first rugs and some of her most recent artistic endeavors and it was a great day! The Woolwrights were so blessed to have Judy with us to hear of her inspiration, her love of rug hooking, and the "faith" in living our days through our art. Thank you, Judy.
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NOTE: There will be a special exhibition at Sauder Village in August 2020 featuring Judy and her work.
The following rugs are being hooked by our members:
January 10, 2020 - Happy New Year from the Woolwrights Rug Hooking Guild! We return this year with our members looking forward to a great year! We have many exciting workshops and pop-up lessons for our meetings this year. We invite all of our followers to enjoy our website and you are always welcome to join us here in Lancaster County!
January 10, 2020 - We start the new year off today in almost spring-like weather with excitement for the upcoming days, with comfort for our members in need of compassion and love, and with laughter which brightens all of our days. Our first meeting of the new year was a great meeting with the Woolwrights sharing all types of creative work. We were able to view Russian hooking, quilting, appliqueing, punch hooking, and, of course, rug hooking. Darlene gave us a "pop-up" demonstration of Russian hooking which is just beautiful. We are looking forward to the upcoming months with demonstrations from many of our own members who will be sharing some of their favorite tips and ideas.
