TWO events have been added to our Event Registration Page:
Both events will be handled using ZOOM and registration is necessary so we can email you the Zoom Link a day or two before the event. These will be two separate ZOOM meetings, you need to register for both!
Our Scholarship Committee is ready to receive your application for one of two $175 scholarships towards the workshop fees for any workshop in the US or Canada. Active Guild Membership is required.
Two Patty Yoder Scholarships will also be awarded in 2022. Info will be updated when plans for the school at the show get finalized. Application deadlines will be announced at that time.
See details: Anne Ashworth Scholarship
Watch for updates in the Guild Events drop down menu.
For now, there’s a one page list of what we know so far.
Other pages will be added to that drop down menu, including rug registration, vendors, classes, dormitory room reservations, and more.
An important page that will be added is the volunteer sign up form: Think about how YOU’LL help out with this exciting show.
Members, please access from the Members Page of Newsletter links.
Non-members: guest access from this page: Newsletters for non-members
Our December newsletter should be ready for downloading by the end of the day — my way of celebrating International Rug Hooking Day! Sorry to have missed my December 1 target, but December 4 being an International Celebration seems like a good alternative. — back to editing and proofreading!
Of note in that newsletter is the upcoming “In the Studio” talk by member Kris McDermet on December 8 at 1:00 EST.
Get your $6.00 ticket for this Zoom talk: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/39106/
The board is working hard on getting plans together for an in person Rug Show for November 3-6, 2022.
We’re making arrangements with the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier for a show, school, hook-in and vendors.
There is much to be done, and we’ll be looking for Guild members to step up and help out.
The December 2021 newsletter will have lots of information about how you can be involved.
Click below to access the 25 page September 2021 newsletter, with many upcoming events in September and October.
NOTE: The Newsletter was uploaded with “June 2021” in the banner. There is now a corrected version if you want to re-download for that correction.
We have set two challenges for our members this year:
Members have hooked in 35 towns that we know of! But we think there are more to be reported. Send your reports of “hooking in public” to barb@irislines.com. Our goal is to be seen doing our art to raise awareness and interest.
We’ve posted minutes and copies of the “sticky notes” posted on “jamboards” during the meeting.
A jamboard is a collaborative tool that allowed many of the 30+ members in attendance at our Zoom meeting to respond to a few requests for input.
You’ll find the minutes and the jamboard notes linked on our About / Board Documents page.
The Board (including our FIVE new board members !) will meet via Zoom this Saturday to follow up on all the ideas generated at the January meeting. Bookmark this home page, and watch for new initiatives and projects.
GMRHG Challenge 2021:
hook a door:
· any size
· decorate it anyway you want – Christmas, spring, etc
· can be your door or a door you saw in a magazine, your mother’s door,etc.
· any color
· with or without a house/barn/shed etc.
· could be one you saw leaning on stuff at an outdoor flea market (like Brimfield)
· Use your imagination
Once you are finished, post a picture to the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild group on FaceBook. Let’s see how many doors we can get hooked in 2021.
We just launched this the end of January and already have over 100 people joining us on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/greenmountainrughookingguild/
Don’t “DO” Facebook? We’ve brought the most recent posts to you on this page of this site: Our Facebook Group
All content for Newsletters should be sent to Barb barb@irislines.com (with GMRHG in the subject line, please!)
Newsletters for 2021 and 2022 will come out early March, June, September, and December.
Deadlines are the 15th of the month before: so…. February 15, May 15, August 15, and November 15.
For each newsletter, we’ll do a random drawing from the member contributors for a great “door prize”.
Send YOUR ideas for collaborative “articles” to barb@irislines.com.
Our president has challenged all of us to get Rug Hooking into our local news papers.
Click here to see a recent posting featuring our member Lynn Soule and her RBG rug that is part of our virtual rug show.
The Hooked in the Mountains 2020 online Show is available to view NOW!
Go to
https://rugshow2020.gmrhg.org/
and enjoy.
Doing an online Show is a new venture for the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild and we have a lot of content for you. There are videos, essays, featured artists’ work and of course the members’ rugs themselves.
There are 3 jurors’ awards and 3 honorable mentions. We hope to return to an in-person show but we also hope this format helps get our work out there and maybe make it available to more people than ever.
Please send out the link to everyone you can think of, and share via facebook, pinterest, twitter or the platform of your choice.
The Show will be up and available for about a year.
The newsletter went out this week with a list of Local Hook ins. We did indeed scare up another that hasn’t been on our website:
First Saturday of the month, October to June 1:00-5:00.
Free and open to all. Tea, coffee & snacks. For more information, contact Stephanie Allen-Krauss, 802-223-1333
Please send any additions / corrections to barb@irislines.com and she’ll get them in the calendar, and in this update.
Note: You can click on any image to open it in a larger format.
The juror was Katie Kirschoff, a curator at the Shelburne Museum.
Marty Liptak – “Nevertheless She Persisted”
Kathy O’Donnell – “Sweeny’s Hardware” (both Jurors and Viewer’s awards)
Barb Ackemann – “Eleanor”
Sandy Ducharme – “Snow Leopard”
Sue Gault – “Cross Words”
Suzanne Girouard – “Asparagus Spring”
Gail Lapierre – “Domestic Zoo”
Amy Lindsay – “Graba’s on Vail Pass Bike Trail”
Trisha Miller – “Winter Roost”
Kathy O’Donnell – “Sweeny’s Hardware” (both Jurors and Viewer’s awards)
Ed O’Keeffe – “Graffiti II”
Dayle Wheeler-Young – “Ruler of the Roost”
Putting on the show is a labor of love — but it costs money, too! Click to make an Online Donation. GMRHG is a non-profit 501c3 organization.
Jennifer Davey remembered and then found the video made at the show in 2011. See it here!
Hundreds of rugs and 3-D fiber art pieces were on display at the XVIII Hooked in the Mountains Rug Show and Fiber Arts Exhibition. After all the votes were counted, the following winners for Viewer’s Choice were announced (in no particular order). Continue Reading