Deanne Fitzpatrick Rug Hooking Studio

Our upcoming Summer Workshop......

Summer Fields and Sushi with Deanne Fitzpatrick
 August 11, 10am to 3pm
this will be a unique workshop focusing on creating texture in the landscape using lots of interesting yarns, wool fabrics and silks. It will not be a kit based workshop, rather you will choose your own personal favorites for texture and colour. It will emphasize freedom of movement, being brave with colour, and
taking time out to create. My friend Yoshiko will join us at noon and treat us to a beautiful lunch of Sushi, in her own creative style  cost:$125
and our lunch with Yoshiko is.......Authentic Japanese sushi lunch menu -
8 pcs of special kind of Maki Sushi  -> I will bring a bunch of ingredients such as cucumber, red pepper, avocado, crab, salmon...  People can choose their favorite inside ingredient and have their own unique roll.
Kaiso salad (Seaweed salad)  -> good texture! Sesame oil and spice will add good favor to it. 
Miso soup  and    Fruit in season
 

Natural Dyeing workshop - August 10th 10am-5pm
Using gathered plants as well as purchased natural dyes (cochineal, logwood and madder root) we will dye wool. Learn which plants will give dye and how to process them for use. We will also talk about mordants and how to get various colours using different mordants. Bring a lunch $98 includes supplies with Joanna Close

For the fall ...October 2010

 A four week course

Poppies on the Edge of Town 12 by 16”

 Hooking Rugs from Start to Finish

A  Complete Beginner Course

 for beginner to early intermediates,
 Includes large pattern and supplies, $125,
hoops and hook are extra $20

Wednesday Evenings from 4pm to 6pm , Four Weeks, October 20 to November 10
We’ll have a pot of tea and a snack each week to hold your supper over. This workshop will focus on all the elements of basic hooking, and finishing a rug. It is a comprehensive course, focusing on landscape, sky, texture, and houses and if you hook some each week at home you should be well on your way to completing a project.

Deanne Fitzpatrick’s Rug Hooking Workshops
2010 Schedule

• Texture in the Coastal Landscape
  Monday and Tuesday, April 26 and 27, 9am to 3pm, 2010

• The Art of Rug Hooking
  A Design & Studio Workshop for Artistic Rug Hookers. This is a creative mentoring workshop.  Monday to Wednesday, May 3, 4 and 5, 9am to 3pm each day, 2010

• Hooking Primitive People and Big Boned Girls
  Monday to Wednesday, September 13, 14, and 15, 2010.

• In 2010 I will be hooking for twenty years and I am celebrating by
   doing a workshop with one of the most creative people I know, Don Miller. There will not be a symposium in 2010- So small under a great big sky Oct 13, 14, and 15
   

  Hooking the Sky So Small Under a Great Big Sky; Spirituality and Creativity Rug Hooking Workshop with Don Miller and Deanne Fitzpatrick Celebrate with me as 2010 is my twentieth anniversary of hooking rugs!  October 13, 14 and 15, 2010, during the NS Fibre Arts Festival "spirit.creativity.fibre. mind. body.spirit.   This workshop will have a practical focus on skies…great big skies, magical skies with circles and paisleys, stormy skies, starry skies, night skies… all sorts of wonderful skies. Our sky rugs will be our learning tool at the workshop. You can create a design yourself and bring it along or we can have a design ready for you. Emphasis will be placed on learning how to create all kinds of dramatic, energetic skies. The workshop will also focus on the nature and relationship between spirituality and creativity, with rug hooking as the primary focus of our creativity. We will work from the notion that we were designed as creative beings and that creativity allows us to be in touch with our spirits. Our creativity is a path towards our own spirituality. One of the goals of the workshop will be to capture our own connections between spirit, craft/art and soul. The other important part of this three-day session will be fun and laughter; recognizing that our spirits were meant for joy, and that through joy and playfulness we can be more in touch with both our creativity and our spirits. In other words, Don Miller is a funny guy, and he promises that part of this workshop will be foolishness because he believes in the importance of not being too earnest, or in taking ourselves too seriously. ”When the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." Leonardo DaVinci Great big beautiful ideas, great big fun, great big joy, great big skies, and a whole lot of laughter; that is the idea we have in mind. In the workshop we will create large pieces on the theme of "so small under a great big sky," so the practical learning in the workshop will focus on creating different kinds of magnificent skies as the predominant feature of the design. The second theme will be the importance of spirit in creativity. The workshop will focus on the relationship between spirit and creativity. It will not be a workshop about religion, but about the importance of putting our spirits into our work, and the relationship between spirituality and creativity. Don Miller a.k.a, Mama Mansour in my YouTube video, has an undergraduate degree in drama, and a master’s degree in divinity. He has worked for twenty years as a youth minister, and in community theatre. He is creative and dynamic, and was one of the hugely popular speakers at our first rug hooking symposium. $495 plus HST. To register call Deanne Fitzpatrick 1-800-328-7756. A non-refundable deposit of $100 is required upon registration. www.hookingrugs.com Plan to join me for this retreat for rug hookers to play, rest, laugh, and imagine with  great homemade food, optional  yoga daily, as well as all the activities of the NS Fibre Art Festival to enjoy

  
  
   

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The Art of Rug Hooking

A Design & Studio Workshop for Artistic Rug Hookers. This is a creative mentoring workshop.  Monday to Wednesday, May 3, 4 and 5, 9am to 3pm each day, 2010 This three day course is designed for those who want to use rug hooking as creatively as possible as a means of self expression. This course will be a mentoring workshop, with an emphasis on developing yourself as an artist. The focus of this design workshop will be enhancing your creative potential, and personal style of rug hooking. We will explore different types of inspiration, other rug hookers, other artists, writers and poets to try to divine some inspiration of our own. Each day we will do a variety of creative activities, including individual and group experiential exercises, writing, sketching, designing, and rug hooking. Part of one day will be spent on an inspirational field trip. I will provide a series of ideas, and you can go off as individuals or as a group. Each day there will be plenty of time to hook together but we will spend a lot of time working out creative ideas, design, and developing creativity. The emphasis will be on developing skills that allow you to always approach rug hooking as creatively as possible rather than on creating a single rug during the workshop. We will each create one design on the first day that we will work on over the three days. This personal piece will be each individual's learning ground, a tool to use as you ask for help on colour, perspective, design, and creativity. The workshop will be self directed, in a studio environment, where we are working together creatively.  In addition to being a rug hooking workshop it will be a creativity workshop, each element will be as important as the other. Participants should be passionate about rug hooking and see it as means of self expression, and believe in a creative approach to rug hooking. You are encouraged to bring a bag of the materials that you generally like to use so that you can infuse the rug you create with your own personal style. The workshop will include: three days of instruction, some wool and burlap for a two by three rug, nutritious lunches, snacks, tea, and coffee. Cost: $475.00 plus $61HST

Hooking Primitive People and Big Boned Girls
Wednesday to Friday, September 8,9,10,(space still available) Monday to Wednesday September 13, 14, and 15, 2010 (full).  This three day workshop will focus on capturing the essence of people. A simple tilt of the head, a fold in the clothes, the tip of the hat, these are the things that bring people to life in our rugs. This workshop will focus on enhancing your ability with portraiture, showing movement, hooking skin tones, clothing, and backgrounds. We will learn how to create interesting and captivating faces with simple primitive shading. Though we will use a pattern as a learning tool, participants are encouraged to bring photos or stories to the workshop to use for discussion of ideas for future mats. The emphasis of this workshop will be capturing the spirit of people in hooked rugs. Topics will include hooking the face, skin tone, clothing, posture, and of course capturing spirit. Each day we will do a series of art related activities to enhance our hooking ability. We will be sketching, and playing with the notion of drawing people for the purposes of improving what we can do with our hooks and wool when it comes to capturing their essence in mats. Like all the workshops, we will focus on experiential activities.  We will also focus on createing big boned girls, or small portraits of women. Using a series of patterns I have designed, we will adapt them so you can create small portraits of women who are important to you.  This intermediate level workshop will include three days of instruction, a one of a kind “people” pattern,(20 by 32 approx)generous amounts of wool from the studio stash, big boned girls patterns, all other supplies needed for the workshop, lunches, snacks, tea and coffee. It is an open minded workshop environment designed for adult learners. The goal of the workshop is to use your rug hooking to create portraits, and lively rugs featuring people. The cost of the workshop includes: three days of instruction, 9am to 3pm, hand drawn pattern, generous amounts of wool from the studio stash, lunches, healthy snacks, tea and coffee. You only need to bring your hook and frame, and a bundle of your favourite wools.  Cost: $465.00 plus $60HST

 Creativity and Rug hooking is a beautiful blend and it is the basis of all the workshops at my studio. We learn by doing, and experiencing, by sharing ideas in a supportive and fun environment designed for adult learners. My goal is to offer you a playground of ideas, and a rich creative experience in a studio environment.

To register, contact Deanne at 1 800 328 7756 or register by adding a workshop deposit below . Specify which workshop you want to register for in the comments section of the order form and we will confirm your registration with you.

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$75 Deposit for Workshops

           

A $75 non refundable deposit is payable upon registration. Deposits are for the specific workshop you register for and will hold your place for that workshop. They are not transferable to other workshops should you cancel.

     Private Workshops and Group Retreats

on various  rug hooking topics, and creativity are available but must be planned up 9 to 12 months in advance for groups of ten or more. You can call me personally to talk about planning a workshop
 for your group at 1-8oo-328-7756.