We’ll be meeting in Randolph (same place as last May)
Don’t forget to register! We want to be sure to have enough chairs, tables, and to have your nametag ready and waiting!
Bring your lunch, and items for the Tea Cup Auction.
Nancy Jewett and Stephanie Krauss will be the vendors.
It will be a great day!
Notice the new box in the sidebar about Virtual Show 2023! When this post moves down due to other “new” news, the box will remain! (On phones, the “sidebar” content is at the bottom of the page.)
This includes links to a FAQ page, which, if it doesn’t answer all of your questions, can be ammended! Send questions to barb@gmrhg.org.
Also included there is the link to Rug Registration, which will be open April 15 through August 15.
You have time to get your text and photos ready with all submissions due by September 15, but sooner is better!
Tips on writing about yourself and your rugs
Coming, by May 15, Tips on getting great photos of your rugs.
May 20, 2023 from 11:00 to 2:30
Randolph, VT
Jennifer Davey has been combining felting with rug hooking techniques to create wonderful works of art.
For this workshop you’ll bring a piece of backing with ~some~ hooking already done. You’ll learn techniques of felting onto your backing material alongside your hooking.
See full description and registration details at
Members: $40, Non-members $70 (it’s cheaper to join for $25/ year!) Join
On May 20th, in Randolph, VT there will be a 3 hour introductory workshop taught by Fern Strong.
Please share this info with your friends who have been curious about your art and invite them to attend.
The fee for members is $40, and $70 for non-members. (For $65 you can become a member and get the workshop, so why not join?)
See details and register at https://gmrhg.wildapricot.org
We had just 5 people enter the drawing for the Felting and Hooking workshop, and just 2 for the Learn to Hook workshop.
The winners are: Marie LaPré Grabon for Felting and Heidi Geishecker for Learn to Hook. Congratulations!
There are still 4 spaces in the Felting and Hooking workshop and 6 spaces for Learn to Hook.
This is a terrific opportunity for members to invite their curious friends to come along, meet some other rug hookers, and take a workshop — and get hooked!
NOTE: file was updated March 7 to correct a phone number for one of our board members.
Members: Access your newsletter from the password protected Newsletter page.
Guests: Access this newsletter in exchange for your email address. non-members
Announcing the Anne Ashworth Scholarship for 2023!
The deadline was last week. Soon we’ll use this space to announce the winner!
A gallery in Randolph called ART, etc. is just down the block from the Library where the new hooking group, the Randolph Ruggers meet on Wednesday mornings.
At 26 N. Main Street in Randolph, their current show includes Abstract Artist Amy Schachter and the The Randolph Ruggers. The show runs through March 26.
Yes, that’s Mary Jo Child’s rug in the poster. She’s been joining the Randolph Ruggers whenever she can.
Hours at the Gallery are Wed-Sat 10-5:00 and Sunday 11-2:00. Randolph Ruggers will demonstrate hooking at the gallery on Satruday March 11 from 10-2. NOTE: this is a date change due to snow on March 4.
802-279-5048
Contact Deb Campbell re: the meetings at the library on Wednesday mornings.
The agenda was emailed to 293 members last week, and is now available on the members’ only Newsletter page.
The meeting was held. 39 members registered but only 24 attended. Minutes and video of the Zoom session will be made available in the next week or two.
For the 2022 Hooked in the Mountains Rug Show we had two jurors who together selected 3 Juror’s Awards and 3 Honorable Mentions. They took a long time deciding and looked closely at every single rug! And they wished they had been allowed to honor more rugs and artists.
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Happy to See Ewe by Mary Jo Childs
Brown Barn by Davey DeGraff
The Bridge at Cushendun by Barb Ackemann
For the Love of Mother Nature by Kathy Hutchins
Playing Sea Tag by Phyllis Lawrence
Dad by Suzanna Brown
Happy to See Ewe by Mary Jo Childs
The Greys (63 Shades of Grey) – by Sandy Ducharme
Sand Sea Boardwalk and Me by Nancy Thun
Beach Perspective – by Judy Hotchkiss
Garden Bird Trio – by Tricia Miller
Eurasian Blue Tit “Reflections” – by Sandy Ducharme
Awakening – by Kris McDermet
Green Mountain Tapestry – by Stephanie Alllen-Krauss
Perfectly Paisley – by Gail Lapierre
Vermont Portraits – by Jenn Davey
For the Love of Mother Nature – by Kathy Hutchins
see post in the Members in the Media section!
We’re SO Excited to be having a show again!
Welcome visitors, members, and would-be-members!
The teachers and topics are:
The vendors are:
We’re working hard to get all the details together so we can get you as excited about a show next November as we are!
The March Newsletter should have lots more details about registering for the show and for the classes, and signup forms for volunteering to put on the show. Watch for the email on March 1 telling you the newsletter is ready to download!
Not a member? Now would be a great time to join or re-join!
Membership is a requirement for showing your rugs in the show.
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.
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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”
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