Nurture Retreat & Working BIG Bundle

Beat the winter blahs with this value-packed bundle!

Get access to Deanne's newest course, Working BIG: Designing and Hooking Beautiful Large Rugs AND register for this year's Nurture one-day digital retreat, all in one convenient package!

What could be a better way to spend a blustery February than working on your very own supersized rug, then joining together with the rug hooking community for a day of reflection and self-care?

This bundle includes EVERYTHING. Over four hours of video content guiding you through designing and hooking big rugs. A refreshing and restorative live one-day online retreat with Deanne and special guest Stephanie Allen. PLUS extra digital goodies including a workbook and Deanne's new pattern "Woman and the Moon."

This bundle is also available with the full rug hooking kit for "Woman and the Moon."

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Full details on course and retreat below:

Working BIG:

In Working BIG: Designing and Hooking Beautiful Large Rugs, acclaimed rug hooker Deanne Fitzpatrick teaches you to spread your creative wings and soar into the vast possibilities of large-scale rugs. Purchase now to unlock the full course on February 3, 2026.

This course includes over four hours of videos. Let Deanne take you through the entire process of designing and hooking a large rug:

• Looking to your surroundings for inspiration
• How to design a large rug
• Choosing a colour palette
• Hooking elements of the design like flowers, trees, branches and stems
• Adapting and making changes to your rug on the fly
• Bringing it all together
• And much more!

Want a large pattern to work on during this course? Deanne is doing custom large-sized patterns for Working BIG. See more details here.

You can also purchase wool packs for the pattern of your choice (we recommend 1-2 for a rug this size).

If you want to design your own large rug, you'll need backing. We recommend 2 yards of linen for large rugs.

Nurture Retreat:

I have created a rug series called Women and the Moon. In some women are holding the moon, in some the women are taking down their hands to discover that the moon shines without them as they release themselves of the things they carry. Some of the letting go is natural and some is by choice. This series of rugs made me think a lot about responsibility and about nurturing ourselves, our soulfulness.

Lately I have been noticing how much my son looks like my father. His hair line, the way he stands takes me back to what it was for me to be a child. My father was a good nurturer, and as a child I sat by him as he carved birds. I always felt very important and very loved during those visits. It is a fond memory. As I look at my son I remember what it was to be nurtured and cared for as a child, and I see that the importance of nurturing does not go away for us. We continue to need it. As women we become the nurturers. This winter I want to think about what it is to be nurtured and look at how we as women must choose to do this for ourselves.

In this one day rug hooking retreat I plan to take you into a world of self care and nurture. As I write this it is January, we are knees deep in snow and cold and the wood fire is burning right below me. And I see that winter brings with it the need for rest and restoration. I feel it myself and I know others are feeling it too.

As women we carry so much love and so much responsibility. We expect a lot of ourselves and we give freely. This day will be a day for you and I to renew our commitment to our craft and to our own self care. We will look at little things and big things as we determine what is individually important to us. As we do this we will be hooking our rugs together, and I will teach a woman and the moon workshop as we do.

I have invited Stephanie Allen, the person I have relied on for over twenty years to help me with my own self care to join me for the day. Stephanie and I will lead you through a personal retreat as you hook on your own work or the Woman and the Moon kit that I am creating for this day long retreat.

Stephanie Allen has been weaving a tapestry of soulfulness through mind, body and emotion for over thirty years. She helps others find a way to be gentle with themselves  in a world that is not always gentle.  Self care through body work, mindfulness and imagination and self inquiry will be the focus of Stephanie's teaching through out the day. so you can go away with some simple restorative practices that you can use in your daily life.

The focus of my classes will be instructional about hooking women and the moon, the sea, the sky around it, but primarily the big moon and the woman! I will also be working with Stephanie throughout the day.

I have also invited a special guest rug hooker to join us for a special lesson!

11 am to 4 pm, Saturday,  February 28

This retreat includes a Woman and the Moon Digital pattern.

A kit with linen pattern is also available for purchase.