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.
Sunday April 16 in Randolph.
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.
A link to the video recording of the Jan. 28th meeting is in the Member’s Only section – listed with Newsletters and Surveys.
Thank you to Sharon for facilitating the Zoom call, AND for taking the time to clean up and post the video!
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.
I had wanted to learn to hook a face, and thought what better person to start with than my Dad. I have many great pictures of him but decided on a picture of him as I most often saw him, in his barn frock and red plaid wool hat. I struggled with this rug but am now happy with the result.
Juror’s Honorable Mention at Hooked in the Mountains 2022
A memory of happy times watching my grandchildren at play on a smooth stone beach, Little Cranberry Island, Maine.
Juror’s Honorable Mention at Hooked in the Mountains 2022.
Mother nature had always been close to my heart, hence the inspiration for this rug. All that fills this rug, come from my surroundings where I live in Vermont.
2022 Judge’s Honorable Mention and Viewer’s Choice
| My Kilpatrick ancestors came from County Antrim. I got to see that part of Ireland in 2005 and took the photo that inspired this hooking. I started this in a class on hooking Water and Sky but didn’t get very far. When I got back to it and actually got to hooking the water it was addictive and quick. This piece was selected for Celebration 32.
2022 Jurors’ Choice for Best of Show
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This is my grandfather’s red barn. But I wanted to hook a brown barn instead. That then inspired the sky color which I ended up loving!
2022 Jurors’ Choice for Best of Show
| My rug honors the sheep which produce the wool for felting and rugs, and the rural landscape that supports them. Camel’s Hump and red clover added as a nod to Vermont. All wool hand-dyed. Used #3, 4, and 6 cuts. (Thanks to Karolyn Cooper of the Distant Drumlin Blog, and Hillsboro Gin & Feed for allowing me to use their photos in my design.)
2022 Juror’s Choice for Best of Show AND Viewer’s Choice. 
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a video shot and edited by Barb’s husband Scott Ainslie:
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!
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See About –> Board Documents for all agendas and minutes, of board meetings and general membership meetings, organized by date.
Our “Door Prize” winners were Pam Finnegan, Pat Dodge, and Fern Strong. Congratulations!
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.
Liv Aanrud is a textile artist who combines elements of weaving, tufting, painting and drawing to dimensional fabric paintings and installations. In her talk to the Green Mountain Hooking Guild, Liv will discuss how her work progressed from painting into textiles, and how intuition, improvisation, rhythm, and scale influence how and what she makes.
She earned her B.F.A with a painting emphasis from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire in 2001 and an M.F.A from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2011.
Aanrud’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at New Image Art, Arvia, 1700 Naud, and TSA-LA in Los Angeles; Sierra Nevada College in Lake Tahoe, NV, Oasis Gallery, Marquette, MI, John Davis Gallery and Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson NY, and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions across the U.S., Taiwan, Germany, and Spain. She has an upcoming exhibition in Lillehammer, Norway.
She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Website and video:
Registration is required (you’ll get the Zoom Link info in an email after you register)
Free for Guild Members, $5 for non-members. Register Here!
The Board met and came to the conclusion that there wasn’t time to plan a Hook In for July, and that many members were busy with vacation plans and finally getting to be with grand-children. We’ll look to schedule something in the fall.
We’re hoping your local groups are finding time and spaces to get together.
The Brattleboro Rug Social group was able to meet in our usual space for the first time last week. It was so good to be able to be in the same space together.
We still hope people are thinking about how to Hook in Public this summer, but the weather has been challenging! Maybe looking into the fall will be good for that too.
We’re not far in our 251 Challenge to Hook in Public in all 251 towns in Vermont. But please do let us know where you’ve been hooking or if you’re thinking about participating in a fair, Old Home Days, festival or other gathering. We want more people to SEE what we do and get interested in hooking or punching.
Visit us at www.americancountryrugs.com. We specialize in primitive rug hooking pattern designs and instructions. Large selection of wool in great old colors.
Lucille Festa, Pawlet, VT
802-325-2543
lucillefesta@hotmail.com
www.americancountryrugs.com
2022 Hooked in the Mountains Vendor
Quite a few of our members met at The Mad River Fiber Mill in Waitsfield on June 11th.
Are your local groups meeting – inside or out? Send us updates and pictures!
An edited version of our May workshop, via Zoom is available here for those who missed it. Thanks to Anne-Marie Littenberg for a great presentation and to Sharon O’Neill for facilitating, editing the recorded session and getting it up on our YouTube channel.
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 met on Zoom and had fun sharing our recently completed and works in progress.
Best of Show (1 of 3) at GMRHG Virtual Rug Show 2020
Best of Show (1 of 3) at GMRHG Virtual Rug Show 2020
Honorable Mention at GMRHG Virtual Rug Show 2020
Honrable Mention at GMRHG Virtual Rug Show 2020
Honorable Mention in Virtual Show 2020
Best of Show (1 of 3) at GMRHG Virtual Rug Show 2020
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.
