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Design School Level l

An adventure into the world of designing hooked rugs.

You get instant access to all the content when you purchase and you can work at your own pace. The information is yours to keep.

Practical. Sensible. Attainable.

Design School is for the beginner to the experienced rug hooker.

I will give you lessons in designing hooked rugs that will leave you with your pencils wagging and and your hands itching to create.

That empty sketch book is gonna get filled and those blank pieces of linen are going to be smiling up at you with designs of your very own making.

Can’t draw? Doesn’t matter.

Design School is about using and building on the skills you have to make marvellous magical rugs that are all your own.

Rugs that tell your story and speak your truths.

You will work with me online as I design at least seventeen rugs.

I will give you ideas and exercises to expand your design muscles as I teach you how to design rugs from start to finish.

You’ll leave design school inspired with a series of your own designs ready to hook.

Here are just some of the lessons I am planning so that you can become better at what you already love.

Seventeen Lessons on Designing Hooked Rugs

1. How to fill a sketch book in ten days.
2. Designing when you cannot draw.
3. Single colour abstracts: Letting the wool inspire the design.
4. Butterfly magic: tricks for designing from pictures
5. Reframing design into different shapes.
6. Finding Inspiration: nature, books and art
7. Uncommon edges: Creating organically shaped designs
8. What my Mama used to Make: A look at traditional design
9. Walk on it: Designs for the floor 
10. Hook yourself a story: storytelling and design
11. Boundless Borders
12. Repetition and Pattern
13. Follow the Line : Abstract Design
14. The writing is on the wall: 
15. Making it work: overcoming problems in design
16. The simple magic of a silhouette 
17. Simplicity and shape as a design inspiration

Design School Level ll

I spent nearly a full year in the studio creating the videos for this course. Over the last year I created many different rugs and thought deeply about the process of designing hooked rugs.

We all have stories. We all have depth. When we design hooked rugs we get the chance to show what we know about ourselves, our lives, our human experience.

I want to show you how to take your design skills to the next level. I want to instill in you how to make meaning in your work and design rugs that are unmistakably art. 

Yes, you can take this course even if you have not taken level one, but I do highly recommend level one if you are a design beginner. I would encourage you to take them both.

Design School Level Two focuses on:

• Taking your rug hooking design and creativity to the next level.
• Understanding influences in design.
• Synthesizing what we take in and know to create our own designs.
• Abstracting ideas for design.
• Tapping into your story  and memory to create designs.
• Building confidence to draw right on the backing.
• Designing from photographs and images.
• Using your iPad to create designs.
• Working with a sketchbook for design.
• Moving from small to big.
• Simplification of Design.
• Using colour to balance design.
• The importance of outlining in design.
• Creating Meaning in your work.
• Working on themes.
• Creating a body of work.
• Showing your work.

The course will be an interesting and winding adventure into the world of designing hooked rugs that takes place over a whole year of studio life. You will see the process, the ups and down and the sweet joys of designing hooked rugs.

Colour School 

DFS Colour School for Rug Hooking is about living life in full colour. We’ll talk about systematic understandings of colour, but mostly we’ll see colour in practice. Colour work is a practice. We’ll talk colour. We’ll live colour. We’ll make colour in this course.

Think Colour immersion and you’ll be thinking colour school.

I will be taking thirty years of experience in working with colour and showing you how to add colour to your work in a practical and accessible way. There is no recipe for my or your understanding of colour. Instead colour is our everyday. It is an integral part of our life. It is a means of self expression. 

We will be thinking and talking about colour as we work: we will be feeling colour as we think about applying it to our rug hooking.

This course has taken over a year to create. So much time was spent ruminating, thinking, making and dreaming before I even got one word to paper.

So how do you teach intuition? The best way is colour immersion. In this course, I want us to look beyond colour theory into the idea of living colour. By living with and using colour we come to understand it, feel it, know it. 

This series of lessons will help you see colour as the important aspect of life as well as rug hooking. I’ll help you bring your eyes, heart and mind to it all around you. It will seep colour into all areas of your life and through this immersion you will find that colour selection and choice for rug hooking and other creative practices will become more natural and intuitive.

You can learn intuition. You can develop it. It just takes practice, understanding and listening to yourself.

Some of the Topics included will be:

• Creating Palettes
• Dying Wool
• How artists approach colour 
• Colour Language
• Colour Planning
• Colour Balance
• Colour Theory
• Living with Colour
• Using colour to create depth
• Colour Backgrounds
• Colour Collection and Storage
• Colour Relationship
• Psychology of Colour

Join me for over 50 videos as well as written lessons and activities that will bring colour to your life and in your rugs.

You can learn at your convenience anytime you wish. It is all recorded and you can keep it indefinitely to review or work on later. 

The written lessons will be available on a downloadable PDF for you to keep. 

This is a two week course. You can work on it on your own time and at your own pace. It is yours to keep indefinitely. 

We would recommend the following items for this course. Just click on the links below: 

1 Yard of European Cream Pure Natural Wool Cloth

Briggs and Little Yarn - Colour 03 Bleached White 2 ply

Briggs and Little Yarn - 2ply Natural White 01